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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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Apply the Experience Curve Concept to Strategy and Project Management

The Strategic Project Manager

While businesses, organizations, and markets have evolved, the Experience Curve concept survives and can be very useful for informing decisions, shaping strategy, and guiding implementation. Using the Experience Curve in Strategy Formulation. Strategy of cutting prices – Cut prices earlier to discourage the competition.

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. Common Types of a PMO Project Management Offices or Program Management Offices (PMOs) can vary widely in structure and function, adapting to the needs of different industries and organizational strategies.

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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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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? The Product Manager connects the business strategy, design, and Product potential to the user’s needs to build a relevant, feasible, and valuable product for its customers. Who is a Product manager? Portfolios. Value streams.

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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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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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