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Lean portfolio management

Techno-PM

The lean portfolio management is a new way to look at the old problem of balancing cost vs. value in product development projects. The use of Lean portfolio management agile has exploded in the last decade as more and more companies have found that it is a powerful tool for structuring their product development processes.

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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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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Don't hear one?

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. COSMIC Software Estimation Approach,” Alain Abran, ICEAA Workshop, Portland Oregon, June 6?9, Estimating Probable System Cost,” Stephen A. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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Professional Development Day 2022 – IGNITE!

International Institute for Learning

Facilitating Innovation in a Post COVID-19 World . Find out how to be a catalyst for change (facilitating innovation) and NOT an antagonist (frustrating innovation). Estimating and Applying Points with Agile – How to apply, and when is it done? Presenters: Keynote. Dr. Joe Perez. Where is your leadership strategy now?

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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products by Jim Highsmith. Lots of things are at the heart of agile methods – it’s a very lean way of going about delivering results). Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn. Another of Mike Cohn’s books that is worth looking at is Agile Estimating and Planning.

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How to Get Started with Lean Project Management

Teamweek

Lean project management sounds like a brand-new concept when in actuality it’s been around for over 40 years. Now, fortunately for project managers across all sectors, the lean philosophy is more widespread and making a difference in all sectors that value customer service. Origin of the Lean Philosophy. The Many Faces of Lean.

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