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Lean Portfolio Management Operations: An Agile Approach

Planview

This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management for the enterprise. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading: Part 1: What is Lean Portfolio Management? Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding. Didn’t we just say that a centralized PMO undermined LPM?

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. Two Lean-Agile Types. Iteration-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based.

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The 18 Most Influential People in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Lindsay Scott is the director of Manchester, UK-based PMO Learning Limited which is dedicated to helping PMO professionals get the most out of their careers with training and organizational development opportunities. He writes consistently on his blog about software development and lean, Kanban and agile development principles.

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The World of Work is Changing—Here’s How You Can Embrace It

Planview

Lean-Agile Delivery : Process-driven work is flowed in for teams to execute on by leveraging lean and agile methods allow these teams to test and deliver more frequently and establish a continuous feedback loop increasing speed time-to-value. Connecting Strategy to Delivery.

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Inspiring Women in Project Management: Karen Chovan

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Today I’m interviewing Karen Chovan, MASc, PEng, PMP, who has dedicated her career to helping others deliver clean, lean and green approaches to project and programme management. Some educational programs are bringing sustainability into project management degrees and there is more focus on it by engineering programs, at least in part.

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Prioritizing Power Skills: Gratitude, Appreciation, AcknowledgmentWith Dr. Rodolfo De Acutis and Judith W. Umlas

International Institute for Learning

He gives strategic directions on project portfolio prioritization to the Confectionery business and supports project delivery with continuous improvement techniques and root cause mindset using rigorous Black Belt Lean 6 Sigma methodologies. Dr. De Acutis is certified in PMP-PMI ® , Green and Black Belt Lean 6 Sigma.

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#PMOT – Who are the Project Managers on Twitter to Follow?

Online PM Courses

And we mustn’t forget that there are other widely used hashtags in the #PMOT community, like #Agile, #PMO, and #PMP. Enthusiastic PMO bod. PMO flashmobber: arraspeople.co.uk. Leadership #PMO #StrategicPlanning Join us: project-management.pm. Civil Engineer. Senior Project Manager, PMP, PMO-CP certified.

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