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Lean Construction Principles & Best Practices

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From the world of manufacturing comes an approach called lean construction. But lean manufacturing and lean construction are two different things. Let’s explore lean construction, defining what it is and its key principles. What Is Lean Construction? ProjectManager has Gantt charts to manage your lean construction.

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What Is Lean Portfolio Management? A Quick Guide

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There are many ways to do this and one of which is lean portfolio management. Let’s first define lean portfolio management and then delve into how it works. We’ll also explain when to use lean portfolio management and how project management software can help you manage your portfolios better. What Is Lean Portfolio Management?

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Return On Investment Vs Lean Agile Metrics for Strategic PMs

The Strategic Project Manager

However, the speed of change has made these methods less reliable – and ushered in a more lean-agile approach to metrics. This post examines the difference between ROI and Lean-Agile metrics, It identifies the key metrics of each, and the drivers behind those metrics. Value is delivered in small increments over time.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. What Is Kanban? Get started for free today. What Is Scrum?

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Overcoming Product Backlog Management Traps

Scrum.org

Watch the video now : Overcoming Common Product Backlog Management Traps — David Pereira at the 54. How do you estimate a release date without an entire backlog? How do you coach a PO of good lean backlog management in case they don’t want to receive any feedback and seem sensitive to advice from the ScM? Hands-on Agile. ?

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5 TOOLS TO HELP CREATE PRODUCT GOALS AND SPRINT GOALS

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Btw, stay tuned for an upcoming video on that topic to uncover why setting goals is so hard. Lean Canvas. Lean Canvas is adapted from The Business Model Canvas and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 In short, the Lean Canvas helps you define the most important elements of your product.

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The 18 Most Influential People in Project Management

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Bridges also is a highly influential YouTube personality who has created hundreds of videos on project management and leadership which have earned well over 10 million views since 2011. He writes consistently on his blog about software development and lean, Kanban and agile development principles. Pawel Brodzinski. He also has over 4.8K