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Companies, governments, and such have always had a keen interest in squeezing as much work out of people as possible; you know, for building railroads , for agricultural work , and other things. Companies tried the strategies that had always worked before. I’m sure they are obvious to you, as well: Lean 5S. The Lean 5S thing comes from five Japanese words that have to do with setting things in order and keeping them that way. My home office has a window. MORE
The Kanban methodology helps reduce inefficiencies, and is a great project management tool for many purposes such as lean manufacturing or agile projects. The car company applied it to their lean manufacturing model, known as the Toyota production system. Lean Methodology. MORE
DAD is characterized by the following aspects: Hybrid: combines Scrum, Agile Modelling, XP, Unified Process, Kanban, Lean, Outside-In Development (OID) and other methods. Complete: DAD includes advice how development, modeling, documentation, and governance strategies fit together. At a certain moment, after several releases, the release cadence was tightened, and their lifecycle evolved towards the lean lifecycle and the team stopped with sizing their work. Scott W. MORE
The path toward agility necessitates a thoughtful strategy and patience. 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. Part 2: Agile Transformation Requires Just Enough Governance. Lean and Agile PMO MORE
Even in normality that was a dying strategy.” 10:28): I highlighted findings from Planview’s new global benchmark report, The State of Strategy Execution: Embracing Uncertainty to Adapt at Speed. The PMO roadmap shows how to cultivate effective strategy execution at speed. MORE
Experience with Agile/SAFe: You are a Lean Agile Practitioner and already executing agile flavours within your organization. – Lean -Agile Leadership. – Understanding Lean Portfolio. – Creating Strategy. – Lean Agile Architecture. MORE
This second session will cover SIPOC workshop strategies. Session number two, the SIPOC Workshop Strategies. Jeff Bongiovani: And then ultimately describe how to set SIPOC workshop goals and strategies. MORE
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. MORE
This article explores some things that are happening in this growth area, why it exists, and implications for strategy and project management. These projects seem to lend themselves strongly to an agile approach, mixed with lean innovation. MORE
This archetype is more concerned with command and control of governance and methodologies than achieving relevant business outcomes. The OKR structure creates realistic traceability with its ability to link strategy with outcomes. How do you bring these strategies together? MORE
He recognized that something like a business model canvas would offer great potential in an entrepreneurial, Lean Startup context. Whether you pitch a Business Model Canvas or a Lean Canvas, the outcome is usually the same in a large enterprise. It isn’t enough to coach an alternative which is less wasteful and better oriented to lean and agile practice. They can be quite different to those of a lean start-up or studio. MORE
The TL and EL are the ones who typically work closely with executives and delivery leadership to create, execute, and drive the Transformation strategy within the organization. As such, they have the ability to challenge their partners to produce clarity around the Transformation strategy. MORE
They will not hesitate to make strategic decisions whenever the time is right and not just in “strategy summits” where a chosen few executives make plans for the rest of the organization for a year or more. The organization embraces a Lean culture. They apply Lean principles and embody the philosophy of continuous improvement. Everybody’s incentives are governed more by their contribution to overall customer value rather than their individual output. MORE
The SAFe Agile Coach is supposed to enable the agile teams in their SAFe adoption, and they also learn a variety of Lean techniques/tools to improve the flow of value in their agile teams. What is SAFe agile. MORE
A study by BCG/MIT finds that 90% of executives deem sustainability to be important, yet only 60% of companies incorporate sustainability as part of their business strategy, and even less (25%) integrate sustainability into the core of their business model. MORE
The focus is on developing prototypes, a minimum viable product to test product effectiveness, and product launch strategies. These five product lifecycle stages indicate a definitive need to establish a product strategy, an economic model, and a roadmap linking strategy to execution. MORE
Strategies to manage your resources efficiently. Lean Six Sigma. One of the new, upcoming project management methodologies is lean six sigma. . The implementation of the lean six sigma framework relies on team collaboration. Pros and Cons of Lean Six Sigma Methodology. MORE
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. Practice lean innovation where appropriate. MORE
The SAFe Agile Coach is supposed to enable the agile teams in their SAFe adoption, and they also learn a variety of Lean techniques/tools to improve the flow of value in their agile teams. What is SAFe agile. MORE
Today I’m interviewing Karen Chovan, MASc, PEng, PMP, who has dedicated her career to helping others deliver clean, lean and green approaches to project and programme management. Karen started out in heavy industry – mining – and is now Principal at Enviro Integration Strategies , a firm that helps companies get tangible value from doing the right thing for the planet. MORE
Growth governance : Lean innovation process and venture boards, growth policy playbook, and growth accounting. Corporate venture building : Implementation of growth strategies and a lean startup way of working (small ninja teams). MORE
It requires the PMO to reinvent itself from a central command organization to one that enables and empowers with “just enough” governance and an eye on a more product-centric approach. Part 2: Agile Transformation Requires Just Enough PMO Governance. For example, some elements of governance may still apply, but are adapted to various ways of working, like collaborative, iterative, Lean, and Agile. Lean and Agile PMO MORE
Challenges Connecting Strategy and Delivery: “How do we ensure we are investing in the right things?”. One of the challenges discussed was how the healthcare industry’s constantly shifting dynamics make connecting strategy to delivery more complex at all times. MORE
No matter how agile and lean you try to run your projects there are inevitably going to be a lot of people involved in getting you from project proposal to launch day. They direct the company’s strategy and also have a large interest in its outcome. This could mean partners, users, competitors, or even government groups who will be impacted by what you’re doing. These are the people who will make or break your project—like the sponsor, funding groups, or government agencies. MORE
Digital transformation strategies. Government agencies and larger institutions will be impacted the most; due to their size and bureaucracy, they're typically forced to do annual planning and are least likely to be able to shift how they plan and respond to changes. MORE
Transformation Strategy. Agile Transformation Strategy. The process centers around forming teams, defining an Agile governance model, and identifying and baselining metrics the company cares about. Your Agile Transformation Strategy will ultimatly depend upon the value system of your organization and the value system of the customers your organzation serves. MORE
Agile is moving beyond technology and is now widely used in financial services, government, and professional services companies. In this program, students will learn how to apply the principles of Lean, Kanban, and Agile delivery to both their IT and non-IT projects. MORE
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. Allan Kelly, Software Strategy Ltd.; It nicely describes the team aspects of knowledge work and offers some good suggestions around funding and governance models. Agile Project Management Books Leadership Lean Metrics NoProjects Planning Teams MORE
And enterprise governance policies lean towards favoring compliance with process over satisfaction of control objectives. Others might be paralyzed when they request governance bodies for guidance only to be told “ It depends ” or “ You are smart and now we’ve empowered you, so go figure it out “ Self-organization is a progress, not a transaction. A highly touted good practice for project teams is that they should be self-organized. MORE
Instead of using timeboxes to govern their work, as a Scrum team does, a Kanban team uses WIP limits. This makes sense: the bottlenecks in each team’s workflow are distinct, so each team’s improvement strategy is distinct. Additionally, for marketing teams that lack political capital in an organization, building up confidence by showing an improved workflow may need to precede any attempt to change strategy or priorities. Agile Marketing agile Kanban Lean MORE
We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . 1] "Systems Engineering Strategies for Uncertainty and Complexity," MITRE Corporation, Systems Engineering Guide. [2] Iterative and incremental are standard practices from software development of large construction (Lean Construction). MORE
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. In the first two installments of this series, we talked about the key elements of Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and how funding practices must adapt to better support LPM initiatives. Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE). MORE
How quickly does your organization adapt and respond to changes, and at what speed does your team deliver on top-down strategies? Also, is your organization considering all work methods to achieve the strategy that actually delivers what your customers want? As organizations adapt to new work methodologies, new approaches to planning, funding, and analysis will develop, shifting to ‘just enough’ governance and a more lean approach to portfolio management. MORE
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. Enhanced Visibility and Streamlined Governance. MORE
Be it monitoring and control, collaboration, stakeholders onboarding, change management, and governance methods, the problems only keep increasing. It’s when the entire organization uses Lean and agile practices to continually deliver innovative business solutions faster than the competition. MORE
Santander’s vision was to create an ecosystem that enables enterprise agility by connecting business with IT and strategy into delivery – with a single line of sight into key initiatives at every stage of the journey. Joaquim’s response: Work is linked to strategies (initiatives). MORE
To stress the ability of being disciplined there are additional principles: master your craft, technical excellence, collaborate, measure wisely, transparency, lean continuously, purposeful experiments, deliver continuously, visualize workflow, whole team, stable team and trust and respect. DAIT addresses how to apply agile and lean strategies to all aspects of IT. Lean/advanced lifecycle based on Kanban. Exploratory lifecycle based on Lean Start-up. MORE
Limited organisational effectiveness caused by over-detailed early-stage planning, and lack of day-to-day testing of the strategy. Failure to consider stakeholders, especially those closest to changes, in strategy and portfolio decisions. Events driving reassessment of strategies and alignment – internal changes AND external changes (such as competitor activity) and the use of retrospectives to help drive changes to the portfolio. MORE
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. When you first look at our governance model or some of our team designs, it might look complicated, it might look really busy. The governance model makes that actionable. MORE
Throw in the rich taxonomy of terms such as Waterfall, Lean, Agile, Scrum, XP, Sprints, phases, increments, and releases, and it’s easy to get lost in the terminology. It is very common in construction, infrastructure, and government programs. . By Karim Radwin , CAIA, PMP. MORE
This applies regardless of the type of organization – small, medium, or large company; startup; government entity; or non-profit. Lean innovation management originated from startups, but is applicable in helping bring a startup mentality to a variety of types of organizations. MORE
The Strategic Project Manager
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
This applies regardless of the type of organization – small, medium, or large company; startup; government entity; or non-profit. Lean innovation management originated from startups, but is applicable in helping bring a startup mentality to a variety of types of organizations.
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. In the first two installments of this series, we talked about the key elements of Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and how funding practices must adapt to better support LPM initiatives. Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE).
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The Strategic Project Manager
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
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. Practice lean innovation where appropriate.
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. When you first look at our governance model or some of our team designs, it might look complicated, it might look really busy. The governance model makes that actionable.
MPUG
MARCH 25, 2021
This second session will cover SIPOC workshop strategies. Session number two, the SIPOC Workshop Strategies. Jeff Bongiovani: And then ultimately describe how to set SIPOC workshop goals and strategies.
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
He recognized that something like a business model canvas would offer great potential in an entrepreneurial, Lean Startup context. Whether you pitch a Business Model Canvas or a Lean Canvas, the outcome is usually the same in a large enterprise. It isn’t enough to coach an alternative which is less wasteful and better oriented to lean and agile practice. They can be quite different to those of a lean start-up or studio.
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. Allan Kelly, Software Strategy Ltd.; It nicely describes the team aspects of knowledge work and offers some good suggestions around funding and governance models. Agile Project Management Books Leadership Lean Metrics NoProjects Planning Teams
ProjectManager.com
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
The Kanban methodology helps reduce inefficiencies, and is a great project management tool for many purposes such as lean manufacturing or agile projects. The car company applied it to their lean manufacturing model, known as the Toyota production system. Lean Methodology.
Planview
AUGUST 26, 2019
The path toward agility necessitates a thoughtful strategy and patience. 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. Part 2: Agile Transformation Requires Just Enough Governance. Lean and Agile PMO
Leading Agile
JULY 18, 2018
Transformation Strategy. Agile Transformation Strategy. The process centers around forming teams, defining an Agile governance model, and identifying and baselining metrics the company cares about. Your Agile Transformation Strategy will ultimatly depend upon the value system of your organization and the value system of the customers your organzation serves.
Digite
JUNE 13, 2018
Instead of using timeboxes to govern their work, as a Scrum team does, a Kanban team uses WIP limits. This makes sense: the bottlenecks in each team’s workflow are distinct, so each team’s improvement strategy is distinct. Additionally, for marketing teams that lack political capital in an organization, building up confidence by showing an improved workflow may need to precede any attempt to change strategy or priorities. Agile Marketing agile Kanban Lean
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Planview
JULY 5, 2019
It requires the PMO to reinvent itself from a central command organization to one that enables and empowers with “just enough” governance and an eye on a more product-centric approach. Part 2: Agile Transformation Requires Just Enough PMO Governance. For example, some elements of governance may still apply, but are adapted to various ways of working, like collaborative, iterative, Lean, and Agile. Lean and Agile PMO
Agilemania
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Experience with Agile/SAFe: You are a Lean Agile Practitioner and already executing agile flavours within your organization. – Lean -Agile Leadership. – Understanding Lean Portfolio. – Creating Strategy. – Lean Agile Architecture.
International Institute for Learning
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Throw in the rich taxonomy of terms such as Waterfall, Lean, Agile, Scrum, XP, Sprints, phases, increments, and releases, and it’s easy to get lost in the terminology. It is very common in construction, infrastructure, and government programs. . By Karim Radwin , CAIA, PMP.
Leading Agile
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Companies, governments, and such have always had a keen interest in squeezing as much work out of people as possible; you know, for building railroads , for agricultural work , and other things. Companies tried the strategies that had always worked before. I’m sure they are obvious to you, as well: Lean 5S. The Lean 5S thing comes from five Japanese words that have to do with setting things in order and keeping them that way. My home office has a window.
Agilemania
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Be it monitoring and control, collaboration, stakeholders onboarding, change management, and governance methods, the problems only keep increasing. It’s when the entire organization uses Lean and agile practices to continually deliver innovative business solutions faster than the competition.
Leading Agile
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
The TL and EL are the ones who typically work closely with executives and delivery leadership to create, execute, and drive the Transformation strategy within the organization. As such, they have the ability to challenge their partners to produce clarity around the Transformation strategy.
Planview Blog
AUGUST 16, 2021
Even in normality that was a dying strategy.” 10:28): I highlighted findings from Planview’s new global benchmark report, The State of Strategy Execution: Embracing Uncertainty to Adapt at Speed. The PMO roadmap shows how to cultivate effective strategy execution at speed.
Herding Cats
FEBRUARY 9, 2019
We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . 1] "Systems Engineering Strategies for Uncertainty and Complexity," MITRE Corporation, Systems Engineering Guide. [2] Iterative and incremental are standard practices from software development of large construction (Lean Construction).
Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives
JANUARY 30, 2020
Agile is moving beyond technology and is now widely used in financial services, government, and professional services companies. In this program, students will learn how to apply the principles of Lean, Kanban, and Agile delivery to both their IT and non-IT projects.
Planview Blog
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. Enhanced Visibility and Streamlined Governance.
Planview
JANUARY 2, 2020
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.
Agilemania
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
The focus is on developing prototypes, a minimum viable product to test product effectiveness, and product launch strategies. These five product lifecycle stages indicate a definitive need to establish a product strategy, an economic model, and a roadmap linking strategy to execution.
International Institute for Learning
MARCH 20, 2019
They will not hesitate to make strategic decisions whenever the time is right and not just in “strategy summits” where a chosen few executives make plans for the rest of the organization for a year or more. The organization embraces a Lean culture. They apply Lean principles and embody the philosophy of continuous improvement. Everybody’s incentives are governed more by their contribution to overall customer value rather than their individual output.
Henny Portman
MARCH 15, 2019
DAD is characterized by the following aspects: Hybrid: combines Scrum, Agile Modelling, XP, Unified Process, Kanban, Lean, Outside-In Development (OID) and other methods. Complete: DAD includes advice how development, modeling, documentation, and governance strategies fit together. At a certain moment, after several releases, the release cadence was tightened, and their lifecycle evolved towards the lean lifecycle and the team stopped with sizing their work. Scott W.
Planview
OCTOBER 19, 2020
Santander’s vision was to create an ecosystem that enables enterprise agility by connecting business with IT and strategy into delivery – with a single line of sight into key initiatives at every stage of the journey. Joaquim’s response: Work is linked to strategies (initiatives).
Planview Blog
APRIL 16, 2021
This archetype is more concerned with command and control of governance and methodologies than achieving relevant business outcomes. The OKR structure creates realistic traceability with its ability to link strategy with outcomes. How do you bring these strategies together?
Planview
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Challenges Connecting Strategy and Delivery: “How do we ensure we are investing in the right things?”. One of the challenges discussed was how the healthcare industry’s constantly shifting dynamics make connecting strategy to delivery more complex at all times.
Henny Portman
APRIL 3, 2020
Growth governance : Lean innovation process and venture boards, growth policy playbook, and growth accounting. Corporate venture building : Implementation of growth strategies and a lean startup way of working (small ninja teams).
Planview
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
How quickly does your organization adapt and respond to changes, and at what speed does your team deliver on top-down strategies? Also, is your organization considering all work methods to achieve the strategy that actually delivers what your customers want? As organizations adapt to new work methodologies, new approaches to planning, funding, and analysis will develop, shifting to ‘just enough’ governance and a more lean approach to portfolio management.
Arras People
JANUARY 9, 2018
Limited organisational effectiveness caused by over-detailed early-stage planning, and lack of day-to-day testing of the strategy. Failure to consider stakeholders, especially those closest to changes, in strategy and portfolio decisions. Events driving reassessment of strategies and alignment – internal changes AND external changes (such as competitor activity) and the use of retrospectives to help drive changes to the portfolio.
ProProfs Project Management
JANUARY 9, 2020
Strategies to manage your resources efficiently. Lean Six Sigma. One of the new, upcoming project management methodologies is lean six sigma. . The implementation of the lean six sigma framework relies on team collaboration. Pros and Cons of Lean Six Sigma Methodology.
Agilemania
MAY 17, 2021
The SAFe Agile Coach is supposed to enable the agile teams in their SAFe adoption, and they also learn a variety of Lean techniques/tools to improve the flow of value in their agile teams. What is SAFe agile.
Planio
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
No matter how agile and lean you try to run your projects there are inevitably going to be a lot of people involved in getting you from project proposal to launch day. They direct the company’s strategy and also have a large interest in its outcome. This could mean partners, users, competitors, or even government groups who will be impacted by what you’re doing. These are the people who will make or break your project—like the sponsor, funding groups, or government agencies.
Kiron Bondale
JULY 17, 2016
And enterprise governance policies lean towards favoring compliance with process over satisfaction of control objectives. Others might be paralyzed when they request governance bodies for guidance only to be told “ It depends ” or “ You are smart and now we’ve empowered you, so go figure it out “ Self-organization is a progress, not a transaction. A highly touted good practice for project teams is that they should be self-organized.
Agilemania
MAY 17, 2021
The SAFe Agile Coach is supposed to enable the agile teams in their SAFe adoption, and they also learn a variety of Lean techniques/tools to improve the flow of value in their agile teams. What is SAFe agile.
Planview
MARCH 9, 2021
Digital transformation strategies. Government agencies and larger institutions will be impacted the most; due to their size and bureaucracy, they're typically forced to do annual planning and are least likely to be able to shift how they plan and respond to changes.
Girl's Guide to PM
APRIL 19, 2017
Today I’m interviewing Karen Chovan, MASc, PEng, PMP, who has dedicated her career to helping others deliver clean, lean and green approaches to project and programme management. Karen started out in heavy industry – mining – and is now Principal at Enviro Integration Strategies , a firm that helps companies get tangible value from doing the right thing for the planet.
Henny Portman
APRIL 11, 2019
To stress the ability of being disciplined there are additional principles: master your craft, technical excellence, collaborate, measure wisely, transparency, lean continuously, purposeful experiments, deliver continuously, visualize workflow, whole team, stable team and trust and respect. DAIT addresses how to apply agile and lean strategies to all aspects of IT. Lean/advanced lifecycle based on Kanban. Exploratory lifecycle based on Lean Start-up.
nTask
APRIL 28, 2021
A study by BCG/MIT finds that 90% of executives deem sustainability to be important, yet only 60% of companies incorporate sustainability as part of their business strategy, and even less (25%) integrate sustainability into the core of their business model.
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