LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

So what processes and techniques will catapult your career and what are the areas that you can… overlook? In this article I’ll look at 5 project management techniques, processes and skills that you will no doubt have heard mentioned time and time again. The work we do touches more people and has more impact. Verdict: Essential.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

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. The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. What Is Kanban?

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Techno-PM

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The lean portfolio management is a new way to look at the old problem of balancing cost vs. value in product development projects. The use of Lean portfolio management agile has exploded in the last decade as more and more companies have found that it is a powerful tool for structuring their product development processes.

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences.

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The Strategic Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Products and services, projects, and processes all need to add value to be strategically viable. This applies regardless of the type of organization – small, medium, or large company; startup; government entity; or non-profit. Let’s start be defining lean innovation. What is lean innovation, and why is it important?

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Planview

AUGUST 16, 2021

Their organizations made incredible progress during the pandemic, but old processes and systems are deeply embedded, making change difficult. (10:28): This includes “unlearning” how you have done things before, especially for PMOs focused on traditionally strict governance, rigid processes, and a project focus.

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Project Accelerator News

APRIL 18, 2024

When new to a role (in many business environments, not just IT Project Management), new managers tend to lean into making sweeping changes, it’s human nature. Often though, hindsight shows that making small tweaks could have been more productive. Rather than shake things up, it can be quicker, and less stressful to shape things up!

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management for the enterprise. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading: Part 1: What is Lean Portfolio Management? Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding. Didn’t we just say that a centralized PMO undermined LPM?

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 6, 2018

But many successful PMOs have evolved beyond governance and control to helping their company reach higher levels of organizational project management maturity, and increasing agility should be complementary and not contradictory to this pursuit. Examining their own operational processes and leaning them out as much as possible.

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nTask

APRIL 28, 2021

To generate a clear business case, organizations need to write business operations with sustainability in mind, which can be done by the following two steps: Document their business processes. Implement effective process improvement techniques for sustainability. At the core of every business are business processes.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 23, 2022

For example, prior to the pandemic, structuring teams around specialist skills, building an amazing planning and resource allocation process (PMO), and putting in place as much automation as possible would for many be the holy grail of productivity. Expensive resources would be optimized. Keep teams and endeavors as small as possible.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

A well-implemented PMO can transform your project delivery process , ensuring that every project is set up for success from the start. A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 25, 2024

While it works out great initially, this approach does not scale – and teams, customers and stakeholders struggle to stay on the same page while ensuring effective use of their investments.

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Digite

JANUARY 7, 2018

Several good books have been written on Kanban and its application to various business processes, especially to Scrum, since David Anderson published his original Kanban “blue book”. This book describes why students, parents, business leaders, major corporations, and world governments all see immediate results with Personal Kanban.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

But it’s not just applying to personnel, processes are also included. Since then, the implications have reached beyond industry and the kaizen principles have been used to help in healthcare, psychotherapy, government, banking and even life coaching. Everyone is part of the process. Report the results, follow-up and repeat.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe is a set of organization and workflow patterns intended to guide organizations in scaling lean and agile practices. Lean Product Development. It helps attendees learn to lead transformations within the enterprise using SAFe and its inherent principles such as Lean Thinking and Product Development.

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Agile Coach

APRIL 19, 2018

A friend of mine asked me on twitter what my 3 main things I’ve learned teaching my Lean Change Agent workshops and what the main takeaways from attendees were. First, How Lean Change Agent Came to Be. The inclusion of Lean Change Management in Harrisburg University’s change course. How this Post is Constructed.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Look up governance in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and you’ll find this definition “ The way that a city, company, etc., Look up governance in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and you’ll find this definition “ The way that a city, company, etc., Most staff would view governance as a necessary evil.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) has emerged as a powerful tool for optimizing business processes. By providing a visual language for representing and documenting business processes, BPMN enables organizations to gain insights into their operations and identify areas for improvement.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

Some of the ideas that find themselves in business agility came from the study of complexity science and the notion of complex adaptive systems, where a perfect understanding of parts of the process doesn’t translate into a perfect understanding of the whole system’s behavior. People, not processes are what makes change happen.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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. Value streams.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Be it monitoring and control, collaboration, stakeholders onboarding, change management, and governance methods, the problems only keep increasing. SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps. Let’s get kickstarted.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This article will discuss how Disney can use the Scaled Agile Framework® to address the challenges a large organization will face when implementing it in its software development process. In the early 20th century, producing animated shorts was a slow, manual process that often did not consistently deliver entertainment value.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Customer-centric governments and non-profits create resilience, sustainability, and the alignment needed to fulfill their mission. The core processes of design thinking appear visually as a ‘double diamond’. SAFe® Lean Portfolio. Design Thinking Explained. Certified Agile Coaching. ICP-ACC) Training. Agility in the Enterprise.

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Agilemania

APRIL 12, 2022

SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for attaining business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps. The core of SAFe is based on four bodies of knowledge which are agile software development, lean product development, systems thinking, and DevOps. Target Process.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 21, 2024

This method uses iterative processes to ensure continuous alignment with your project goals and market demands, allowing for frequent adjustments and fine-tuning. Central to adaptive project management is the iterative process, where projects are broken down into short cycles or sprints, allowing for frequent reassessments and adjustments.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Business Analysis A process in which an individual identifies business needs, defines solutions and facilitates change to meet organizational goals. Change Control A formal process of documenting, reviewing, approving, and managing a change to a project’s scope, schedule, budget, or quality parameters.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Lean/Agile Leader. Lean/Agile Leadership Practitioner. The PPC is responsible for creating curriculum and tailoring methodologies to meet the client’s needs and help them understand how to connect strategy to execution through the decomposition of investments into products at the highest tier of their governance model.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

Creating a winning formula for efficiently implementing business processes. A methodology is a framework of processes, methods, and practices that project managers employ for the design, planning, implementation and achievement of their project objectives. Define a smooth and structured process for project execution.

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Planview

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It’s an exciting time as we go through the portfolio process. We are integrating the strategy process with our portfolio process and using Planview’s investment and capacity planning with the portfolio.” To that end, many BCBS organizations are institutionalizing the process of innovation, creating departments dedicated to it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Chapter 5 covers the agile project management model and then the rest of the book covers the process and project lifecycle in detail, with chapters on governance, scaling and performance measurement. Lots of things are at the heart of agile methods – it’s a very lean way of going about delivering results). Buy on Amazon.

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Agilemania

MARCH 21, 2023

SAFe Team Kanban is a Lean-Agile method (Figure 17) that helps Agile Teams facilitate the flow of value by visualizing workflow, establishing Work in Process (WIP) limits, delivering value continuously, measuring throughput, and improving their process. The post Accelerating Value Flow appeared first on Agilemania.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 8, 2021

Governments, businesses and NGOs have aspirational goals. Having urgency is a great motivator and starting point as shown in John Kotter’s 8-Steps process. . . Figure 5 The 8-Steps Process for Leading Change* * [link]. This feedback loop is the basis for a holistic empirical process control. . Goal Examples.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Product life cycle is linked to creativity, invention, and insight – a method, a discipline, and a formal process followed by a company from the initial conception of an idea till the market launch of the physical product. Legal review, especially around IP rights, needs to be taken on earlier in the design process.

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Agilemania

MARCH 10, 2022

It takes the help of principles from different knowledge of bodies such as lean thinking and system thinking. . Lean Startup cycle . The SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager Certification is for SAFe Product Owners and Product Managers who want to develop the skill sets that are necessary to deliver value within the Lean enterprise.

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Elise Stevens

JANUARY 24, 2023

Ideally, leaders will communicate the change in the simplest way possible and keep processes light. Lean and Agile principles of change management are best suited to most organisations, rather than more traditional models. Leaders, more so than change managers, have the benefit of knowing their team well.

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Planview

AUGUST 26, 2019

One of the primary reasons for this disconnect is the fact that PMOs aren’t embracing different ways of working, such as Lean, Agile, iterative, and collaborative. Agile development also advocates self-governing, dedicated teams over individuals assigned to a project for faster, more customer-centric delivery. This must change.

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