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What Is Lean Portfolio Management? A Quick Guide

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There are many ways to do this and one of which is lean portfolio management. Let’s first define lean portfolio management and then delve into how it works. We’ll also explain when to use lean portfolio management and how project management software can help you manage your portfolios better. Learn more.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. When to Use It: The practice originated in software development and works well in that culture. How do you know if agile is for you?

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

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Agile A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects in an iterative way with short bursts of work called “sprints” Though initially designed as a process for IT and engineering projects, it has since been successfully applied to other industries like marketing.

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Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding

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This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading part one first, “ What is Lean Portfolio Management ,” which you can find here . In this post, we’ll discuss a fundamental component of Lean portfolio management: funding. This is where Lean budgeting comes in.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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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. If you’d like to use kanban boards for managing tasks, projects or workflows you’ll need project management software like ProjectManager. What Is Kanban? What Is Scrum?

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The 5 different types of project management you need to know

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Whether you’re a construction company building a new skyscraper or a software team planning a new product launch, the key to success is aligning your industry, people, and product to the right project management approach. The 5 types of project management (and how they’re different) 1. Lean project management 4.

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The PM Skills You Can Forget About (And the Ones You Really Need to Know)

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I remember learning how to calculate the project’s critical path by hand using forward pass and backward pass calculations. Project management software can work out the critical path efficiently, and keep it up to date when tasks change. Critical Path Analysis. And that was on a training course quite recently. Stakeholder Management.