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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

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. For one, both are ideal for lean and agile projects, limiting work in process and favoring a continuous scheduling flow as opposed to pushing through a schedule. What Is Kanban?

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“Organize Around Products/Services” is a great addition to the Disciplined Agile principles

Kiron Bondale

The Disciplined Agile (DA) principles were recently refactored and as part of this refactoring, a principle was added: “Organize Around Products/Services” While it is just one of the eight principles, this new one aligns very well with lean thinking.

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Creating Safety for Your Finance Team

Leading Agile

Today, we’re exploring what it looks like to transform the way your company finances itself in a new, agile world. But you can’t just wave a magic wand and expect the finance team to forget everything they know and start trusting that you’ll deliver what you say you’re going to deliver based on just a wink and a handshake.

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What’s New in SAFe® 6.0?

Agilemania

offers the newest and most effective Lean-Agile practices, enabling forward-thinking enterprises to navigate today’s rapidly changing challenges and opportunities. For thousands of global organizations and government agencies, SAFe® has become integral for adapting to change, building resiliency, and thriving as a modern, digital business.

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Enterprise Agility in Financial Services: Learnings from the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference

Planview

Even in organizations where teams were already practicing Agile, it was common for senior leadership to favor the more traditional portfolio management due to their comfort with detailed project plans and heavier governance. Agile teams are largely self-governing. Senior leaders provide space to innovate, but not how.

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Improving portfolio management must be part of an agile transformation

Kiron Bondale

If governance committees aren’t selecting the right projects which are in alignment with strategic objectives, and only kicking off as many projects as can be effectively staffed, it won’t matter how efficient, empowering or customer-centric the organization’s delivery practices are.

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What Is The Role Of A Product Manager In SAFe®?

Agilemania

Have you heard everyone else is going agile or embracing lean, and you’re not sure what it means? However, at the level, that plan involves decisions about finance and governance, in addition to creating a portfolio vision, developing strategic themes, and creating a portfolio backlog. SAFe® Lean Portfolio.

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