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Streamlining Success: Lean Principles in Project Management

MPUG

First, our last article touched on waste in the context of lean. Second, I am the father of a recent engineering graduate who is now working as an engineer, and part of the onboarding was a class on lean. Training is only part of the solution; the work environment (culture) and methods will significantly influence it.

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The Agile Manifesto from a Lean Perspective

Scrum.org

To what extent, for example, is the Manifesto a reflex of “lean thinking”? There’s a clear synergy between lean and agile practice, and attempts to tease them apart can often seem contrived and artificial. Interestingly, in the published history of the Agile Manifesto, the word “lean” does not appear even once.

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

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. Exercise Empirical Process Control : In your Retrospectives, identify instances where the feature factory mindset prevailed.

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The Three — Wait: Four — Elements of Empiricism

Scrum.org

Let’s start with what the Scrum Guide says about empiricism: “Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking. Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.”. The emergent process and work must be visible to those performing the work as well as those receiving the work. Empiricism. Inspection. Adaptation. “If

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Scrum Master Power-Ups

Scrum.org

To do this, team members engage in participative leadership, use minimal process, collaborate well, respect each other and their differences, trust one another, work with urgency and focus, manage healthy conflict, share a high sense of morale, and succeed or fail as a team.” Then, open it up for their comments.

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Project Management Artifacts: Essential Tools to Enhance Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

They provide a structured approach to understanding complex processes, decision frameworks, or phenomena, serving as thinking strategies. The project objectives, the nature of the tasks involved, and the preferences of the project team influence the method choice. In effect, it may help reduce time and resource waste.

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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. A 3-part stakeholder management process for keeping everyone happy. Create and enforce transparent processes for communication. And what do they do?