Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

XP, scrum, lean, etc.) Bill Dow With the likes of PowerBI and Tableau taking off around dashboard and reporting, I think our executives and leadership are going to want to see more project data real time. Second, the use of lean and agile tools and methodologies beyond IT, software and manufacturing.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 19, 2019

If success goes to those who can innovate the fastest, how do we nurture innovation? It may sound easy, but executives and shareholders demand results, not “learning opportunities.” It may sound easy, but executives and shareholders demand results, not “learning opportunities.”

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Techno-PM

OCTOBER 3, 2022

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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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Cycle time includes processing, moving, inspection and queue time for the item. That is, cycle time covers the entire process, even inactive time when a product is being moved from one part of the facility to another. It can help manufacturers innovate faster, become more competitive in the marketplace and even retain employees.

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Wrike

AUGUST 28, 2023

Lean Manufacturing is a methodology that aims to streamline business operations and eliminate waste in order to achieve maximum efficiency and productivity. By identifying and eliminating non-value-added activities, organizations can optimize their processes and improve overall performance.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the realm of project management methodologies, Lean and Agile have emerged as powerful approaches that support organizations in achieving efficiency and delivering high-quality products and services. Understanding the nuances of Lean and Agile is crucial for project managers and teams seeking to optimize their processes.

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Project Pulse Journal

MAY 1, 2024

It is a fundamental activity in all aspects of life and business, as it drives individuals and organizations to achieve goals, overcome barriers, and innovate for future success. Anticipating and Mitigating Risks Identifying potential risks early and devising strategies to mitigate them is essential for the smooth execution of any project.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. Excessive Planning and Control : The illusion of control among managers results in a tendency to over-plan and control every aspect of the development process. Share successes widely to build a case for further lean initiatives.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability 192

Planview

JULY 9, 2019

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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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Today, it is often imperative to be capable of innovating Business Models – to change and reconfigure value chains. This post provides a framework – far beyond just a product and service innovation – for Business Model Innovation. What Is a Business Model Innovation Definition? What Is a Business Model?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2018

It can mean different things within various organizations or circumstances, but there is a way to broadly outline this business process improvement methodology and define its beginnings, its, rise, its use and its implementation. As noted, it’s a methodology used to improve the quality of an output in a process. What Is Six Sigma?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Losing the Ability to Innovate You often see companies that grow successfully to the point where it seems their ability to innovate stalls. This affects product innovation as well as GTM innovation and other key business processes. . The bigger you are, the more you resemble the incumbents you once disrupted.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 31, 2023

This was frustrating to the people I was talking to because it was hard to focus on innovation and value, and instead, they felt forced to concentrate on work and dependency management. Executives were sponsoring the use of Scrum and had even attended some of the classes, but they thought that the change was not for them but for others.

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Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company. The most common schedule for a PI is four development iterations, followed by an innovation and planning (IP) iteration. Go Lean! –

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Software Development is not just a systematic process but a dynamic interplay of critical work that shapes the progress of your product. To track the refinement work in the Board, create a new column named 'Refinement' and map it to the "Approved" or "New" state, depending on the process used.

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The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Lean Innovation – discover and build a business around the hotpots for customers and markets. Design Thinking – follow a rigorous process to precisely deliver what customers want, not what demographics show. Here are the impacts to planning and executing projects, depending on the answers to those answers.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Each methodology is relevant in its own right, unlocking potential, driving innovation, and ensuring that your projects meet expectations.

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Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company. The most common schedule for a PI is four development iterations, followed by an innovation and planning (IP) iteration. Go Lean! –

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Jeff Zircher Project Management Offices (PMOs) play a pivotal role in ensuring that projects are executed successfully within an organization. Utilizing World-Class Processes The Significance of Processes. Well-defined and standardized processes are the backbone of effective project management.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 8, 2023

It helps organizations define and maintain high standards in their processes, products, and services. By developing a comprehensive quality plan, businesses can ensure excellence in execution, improve customer satisfaction, and drive overall success. A quality plan is an integral part of any business strategy.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

This method has driven companies to new heights of efficiency and innovation, enriching every facet of project execution - from planning to evaluation - and boosting effectiveness and adaptability. It represents the ongoing effort to enhance products, services, or processes through incremental and breakthrough improvements.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 13, 2023

Some examples of the challenges I’m called in to help with: Losing the Ability to Innovate You often see companies that grow successfully to the point where it seems their ability to innovate stalls. This affects product innovation as well as GTM innovation and other key business processes.

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Wrike

JULY 21, 2023

Organizations strive for efficiency and effectiveness in their operations, and one critical aspect of achieving this goal is through the optimization of process flows. When processes are well-designed and smoothly executed, companies can improve productivity, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2022

Many of the changes the pandemic brought us around how we order food, consume entertainment, pay bills or even visit the doctor will become the norm, which in turn will create a cascade effect with their associated business processes becoming more digital. . Neuman also discusses the role of innovation in the Deployment Phase.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The information collected in these Q&As will act as valuable assets for anyone wanting to make clear the real need for more adaptive product development and to show that an accelerated process is still highly possible, even in the face of consistent disruptions. Q&A from Accelerating Innovation: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic.

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Wrike

MAY 21, 2023

Defining Operations Operations refer to the process of designing, producing, and delivering goods or services to customers. Quality control is the process of ensuring that the products or services meet the required standards of quality via testing, inspections, and audits.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 7, 2024

As the Agile project management framework reaches adoption maturity at lean, progressive and disruptive startup firms, many teams at established organizations are struggling to fully embrace the Agile project management framework at scale. Execute actionable guidelines based on a proven framework to realize these goals.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 21, 2024

This method uses iterative processes to ensure continuous alignment with your project goals and market demands, allowing for frequent adjustments and fine-tuning. Imagine leading projects where changes and uncertainties are not setbacks but stepping stones to innovation and success.

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International Institute for Learning

JULY 13, 2023

While past efforts primarily focused on structural and technical aspects, recent developments have embraced the integration of previously unrelated knowledge domains to enhance both the process and outcomes. As AI agents take over certain processes, forms, and checklists, the role of EQ in project management becomes even more critical.

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Planview

AUGUST 16, 2021

Fresh from achieving great strides in digital transformation and other endeavors in record time over the past year, executives and boards of directors want to inject even more speed and agility into their organization’s DNA. The PMO roadmap shows how to cultivate effective strategy execution at speed. Can you go over Lean versus Agile?

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This team of e Agile Transformation Coaches will consist of people focused on executive-level understanding and leadership, people that teach team-level technical practices, and everything in between. The TL partners with and works alongside the C-Suite to create innovative and customized solutions to meet the business’ needs.

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Technical Review Software Review Agile Lean 118

Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps. It’s when the entire organization uses Lean and agile practices to continually deliver innovative business solutions faster than the competition.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Business Analysis A process in which an individual identifies business needs, defines solutions and facilitates change to meet organizational goals. Change Control A formal process of documenting, reviewing, approving, and managing a change to a project’s scope, schedule, budget, or quality parameters.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2022

Whilst this is a Professional Scrum leaning piece, facilitation is not an art solely associated with Scrum, and therefore the language I use isn’t either. This doesn’t mean military style agenda execution, but focusing reasoned discussion around the purposeful goal. . How will you do this as a facilitator?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2019

As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. Of course, this assumes that organizations are streamlining processes, using new digital transformation approaches or methods and are assigning competent project managers to lead small, medium and large teams.

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Planio

MARCH 9, 2021

Add too many new team members too quickly and you’ll burn through resources, get stuck in a never-ending cycle of onboarding, burn out your project managers , and risk injecting a ton of complication into your process. A lean product team strikes the perfect balance. Balancing innovation with execution and expectations.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

Some of the ideas that find themselves in business agility came from the study of complexity science and the notion of complex adaptive systems, where a perfect understanding of parts of the process doesn’t translate into a perfect understanding of the whole system’s behavior. At the center of any business agility framework is innovation.

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