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How to Create a Small Business Plan: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

This includes products or services, the market, finances and more. Organization and management team: This section shows exactly how the small business is organized, from day-to-day operations to its leadership team. These are three popular business plans for small businesses: The Lean Plan. A lean plan is just that—lean.

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Six Sigma: A Simple Guide for Project Managers

ProjectManager.com

There has been some backlash against Six Sigma over the recent years, some of which is warranted and will be discussed, but overall the process proves a valuable tool in reducing defects in product manufacturing, especially when paired with Agile thinking, lean manufacturing and capable project management tools. Leadership is critical.

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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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SAFe Simply Explained (Part 1): Core Competencies and Principles

Inloox

SAFe picks up many already familiar elements and concepts from existing methods such as Scrum or Lean Project Management, which makes the transition easier for many companies. Lean Agile Leadership: Managers are the very core of lean agile development and business agility.

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Improving Private Equity Outcomes using Agility / Evidence-based Operating Systems

Scrum.org

When you look deeper, you see them struggling to cope with growing technical complexity, coordination costs across teams, and leadership bottlenecks. You might also call these OKRs, Distributed Leadership, Nimble, DevOps, Lean Startup, or Scrum. . More frequently there’s a major event driving it.

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Free project management certifications

Moira Alexander

Project Risk Assessment - a self-paced course on how to conduct risk analysis of different projects using both conceptual and practical developments in modern finance. Project Management - is a course to develop the leadership skills needed to effectively manage a team that will meet the expectations of your customers and business goals.

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The Next Scrum Frontier - Developing the Company as the Product

Scrum.org

When you look deeper, you see them struggling to cope with growing technical complexity, coordination costs across teams, and leadership bottlenecks. You might also call these OKRs, Distributed Leadership, Nimble, DevOps, Lean Startup, or Scrum. new leadership, new investors/owners), the environment is even more volatile.

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