ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Arrow Diagramming Method A network diagramming technique that represents the start and end of activities with arrows to help with scheduling in the project planning phase. Baseline A baseline is an estimate of the project’s scope, schedule and costs that is created during the planning stage. It is also called a Business Case.

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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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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. ProjectManager’s kanban boards offer advanced planning, scheduling and tracking features to help you manage your team’s workload and track their performance. What Is Kanban?

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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.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Agile governance is a process that focuses on bringing the most value by focusing on what matters. Good governance ensures that the policies and decision-making process align with successful delivery when you incorporate agile in your organization’s strategic goals through projects and programs. What is Agile Governance.

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Project Accelerator News

APRIL 18, 2024

I always think of this proverb when a project leader tells me about their new, more senior role and the radical plans they have to “shake things up”. 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. Less broom, more polish!

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 20, 2018

Managing a distributed project team takes real skill and a definite commitment to putting a governance structure in place that enables success. Delivering Project Success via Good Governance. Governance is nothing more than how a project will be controlled to deliver intended outcomes.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 12, 2023

The software integrates project and portfolio planning with teams, resourcing and risk management as well as scheduling. All of these features can be found in ProjectManager , an award-winning project and portfolio management software that empowers teams to plan, manage and track projects in real time.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In slide #9 of this deck about using cycle time analytics in forecasting, Troy Magennis shows that when four people plan to meet for dinner, there is only one chance in 16 that all four will arrive on time. Just for grins, let’s pretend the four resources who are planning to meet for dinner are actual humans. Grind, grind, grind.

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Planview

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It focuses on how PMOs should evolve in the context of four dimensions of modern PPM: Empowered Teams Adaptive Portfolio Planning and Funding Flexible Capacity Planning Enhanced Visibility and Streamlined Governance. Modern PPM software enables PMOs to link all types of work back into the integrated strategy and portfolio plans.

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Proofhub

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Increasing visibility of work in progress to improve speed and quality of work Lean ?—?Streamlining Extensive planning followed by sequential execution through phases XP? —?Extreme A sprint consists of four parts: sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint demo, and sprint retrospective. Extreme programming?—?Robust

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Digite

JANUARY 7, 2018

This book describes why students, parents, business leaders, major corporations, and world governments all see immediate results with Personal Kanban. 31 pages, ET to read: 50 min, Published July 19th, 2012 by Lean-Kanban University). Scrumban and Other Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Dev. By Don Reinertsen.

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MPUG

JANUARY 16, 2023

Project Planning. Everything you do as a project manager involves leaning into the domains to a greater or lesser extent, as you keep all the project’s balls in the air. Planning is what got me into project management in the first place. Project management is more than a set of processes. Project work.

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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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Velociteach

MAY 10, 2023

Everything from putting people back on the moon, developing new therapeutics and software, or planning a wedding. More recently, the profession has grappled with two intertwined questions: Should principles or processes govern project management? Lean manufacturing influenced the quality movement, Agile , and DevOps.

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Planio

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A proper project plan is the most critical element when it comes to delivering success. Your project plan is the foundation of your entire project and provides an all-in-one guide for how you’ll get from A to B. Planning is one of the first skills every project manager learns. Jump to a section: What is a project plan?

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This software isn’t just critical for enterprise organizations, but any company that manages shared resources and has complex projects with succession planning components. Project management is a process used to plan, organize and execute a task, event or project. What is Project Portfolio Management? Portfolio Balancing.

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Planview

MARCH 9, 2021

One of the most important: our planning cycles were not just wrong and ineffective — they were wasteful. It also represents an opportunity to leverage this inflection point and doing so will help your business transcend traditional planning cycles to become a strategic powerhouse. The flaw with annual planning.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Our governance model and team design may look a little complicated at first glance. In this presentation, our Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens will remove the noise and walk you through our governance model and team design to help you better understand the LeadingAgile system of delivery. View Dennis’ System of Delivery Deck.

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Planview

MARCH 6, 2020

Success requires becoming a more “Adaptive PMO,” evolving how you plan, govern, and empower delivery teams to do their best work. This graphic depicts the progression of becoming more agile across planning and delivery. Move toward continuous planning and incremental funding. Provide ‘just enough’ governance.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

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. The principles are the guiding lights, the action plan is where kaizen hits the road running. Kaizen, like a lean or agile approach, works with iterations.

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Meisterplan

OCTOBER 30, 2018

We turned our exhibitor booth wall into a big whiteboard, and had a great time discussing and reading the responses to the question, “Do your portfolio plans actually work?” We have used those conversations to develop our Lean PPM process. Do Your Portfolio Plans Actually Work? Good planning.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. Implementing Scrum or XP or Lean Startup on top of a tightly coupled legacy mainframe system is a recipe for disaster. The governance model? Governance and control.

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Planview

MARCH 26, 2020

That said, finding the balance between tracking time, minimizing the loss of productivity (not to mention team morale), and layering in the right level of governance can be a challenge. You may be thinking that with more and more teams adopting Lean/Agile principles, a traditional timesheet just won’t cut it. What is the right answer?

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Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

We learned more about some of the biggest struggles financial institutions face with a focus on capacity planning, funding models, and digital transformation. Agile teams are largely self-governing. Teams are now empowered to use Lean and Agile methodologies and enterprise Kanban to continuously improve their unique workflows.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 25, 2024

In this series of weekly sessions, we will demonstrate how you can effectively and easily align Strategy to Execution, with the use of principles such as Visual Work Management, Lean Thinking, and Pragmatic Agile to dramatically improve your work management and collaboration capability while enabling and empowering your people to take ownership and (..)

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 13, 2021

– Planning an Iteration. – Experiencing PI Planning. – Role in PI Planning. – Role in Iteration planning. Experience with Agile/SAFe: You are a Lean Agile Practitioner and already executing agile flavours within your organization. – Lean -Agile Leadership. Scrum Master.

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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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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In 1994 the Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM) was created as project managers using RAD strived for increased governance and discipline when using an iterative style of managing projects. Responding to change over following a plan. Lean is concerned with eliminating work that does not add value, in particular to the customer.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2019

Also, organizations that embrace the whole digital product view still need help governing the ongoing process. They describe the factors at play and provide ideas for guidance around planning, funding, staffing and governance. It is in the rebranding of tradition lean metrics that I struggle to recommend the book wholeheartedly.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Have you heard everyone else is going agile or embracing lean, and you’re not sure what it means? Organizations may plan and carry out in a cross-functional, cohesive way by approaching teams and cooperation at these distinct levels. SAFe® Lean Portfolio. Do you use the Scaled Agile Framework in your firm or organization?

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Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

This makes it impossible to accurately estimate capacity during iteration planning and usually contributes to a team missing their iteration commitments resulting in delivery delays. Portfolio plans are useless, portfolio planning is indispensable.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 2, 2020

The team is so confident in their practices, they decided they don’t need to plan anymore. In fact, they sent the scrum master to release planning with some gibberish features and continued to code – because in their mindset, planning isn’t coding, and coding is what experimenting requires.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 21, 2024

It operates on the principle that project scopes and objectives may shift, prioritizing agility over strict adherence to predefined plans. Scrum relies heavily on regular team meetings, such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, to adapt processes and outputs based on ongoing feedback and results.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2024

Below are a few guardrails from the Scrum framework described in the Scrum Guide. how many Scrum teams do we need, who should be on each Scrum team) Artifacts: Where should the artifacts be stored in alignment with organizational policies? The Scrum team determines where / how frequently refinement activities take place.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Baseline An original plan for measuring performance and tracking changes. Capacity Planning To identify the number of resources (e.g., Change Management The approach to plan and implement strategies that guide individuals and organizations through a change (e.g., identify items such as benefits and costs).

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