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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. This is where Lean principles come into play. The class began by asking the students to draw a pig. The overarching goal?

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

Short-Term Focus : Driven by quarterly results or immediate performance metrics, these organizations push for quick deliveries, often at the expense of long-term value or sustainable development. Exercise Empirical Process Control : In your Retrospectives, identify instances where the feature factory mindset prevailed.

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

nTask

A study by BCG/MIT finds that 90% of executives deem sustainability to be important, yet only 60% of companies incorporate sustainability as part of their business strategy, and even less (25%) integrate sustainability into the core of their business model. At the core of every business are business processes.

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Dynamic Planning in the Face of Uncertainty

Planview

In business, dynamic planning is more complicated – but no less essential, especially in times of sustained economic uncertainty. Read this eBook to discover the five steps you need to take to rapidly replan, reprioritize, and effectively execute on your company strategy. Need to get started with dynamic planning?

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Project Management Artifacts: Essential Tools to Enhance Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

These strategies enhance team dynamics and facilitate time and budget management as the project progresses, whether for leading small teams or managing large-scale projects. They provide a structured approach to understanding complex processes, decision frameworks, or phenomena, serving as thinking strategies.

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Strategy Knotworking: turning ideas and ambitions into reality

Scrum.org

Working effectively with Scrum requires strategy. Strategy is essentially no more than a goal, followed by a series of actions required to achieve that goal as well as the players who need to involved. As a Scrum Master, you develop and help others develop strategies to become more successful with Scrum. Strategy Knotworking.

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A Digital Service Canvas for Government and Enterprise

Scrum.org

He recognized that something like a business model canvas would offer great potential in an entrepreneurial, Lean Startup context. Maurya envisioned iterating through multiple versions of a canvas as quickly as possible until a sustainable business model is found. They can be quite different to those of a lean start-up or studio.