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Five factors required for teams to self-organize

Kiron Bondale

Ensuring that team members and managers are on the same page about decision making authority is critical and exercises such as delegation poker can be used to safely explore jurisdictional limits. Checks and balances are required but these should be done in the spirit of lean governance rather than of micromanagement.

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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

In the third section we get an overview of some routine meetings like the daily scrum, demos, governance meetings and teleconferences. the “self-governed team” agile principle is a valuable but incomplete concept. it is very difficult to both participate in and facilitate a complex exercise as a project retrospective.

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Project Management Artifacts: Essential Tools to Enhance Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Process improvement strategies and lean principles like Just-In-Time (JIT) Production and 5S Methodology might be some methods that project managers would be familiar with. Improved Efficiency Achieving project deliverables can be streamlined by becoming familiar with different methods. In effect, it may help reduce time and resource waste.

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Efficient project governance should not be an oxymoron!

Kiron Bondale

Look up governance in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and you’ll find this definition “ The way that a city, company, etc., Look up governance in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and you’ll find this definition “ The way that a city, company, etc., Most staff would view governance as a necessary evil.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (1): Scrum Master Role

Scrum.org

Product discovery using the Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Lean UX frameworks help, but in any case, a good Scrum Master will want the Scrum Team to be a part of this process (whether by participating in user interviews or running experiments).

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10 Top Process Improvement Tools You Need to Create a More Sustainable Business

nTask

Stage 2, make the changes: During the change phase, fresh practices and ideas are exercised. JIT is pull-system meaning investments are governed by process demand. Process Improvement Tool #7: Lean Six Sigma (DMAIC). With this information, you can easily identify sustainability problems or weaknesses. nTask Kanban Boards.

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What is a Stakeholder in Project Management?

Planio

No matter how agile and lean you try to run your projects there are inevitably going to be a lot of people involved in getting you from project proposal to launch day. This could mean partners, users, competitors, or even government groups who will be impacted by what you’re doing. What exactly is a project stakeholder?