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Streamlining Success: Lean Principles in Project Management

MPUG

First, our last article touched on waste in the context of lean. Second, I am the father of a recent engineering graduate who is now working as an engineer, and part of the onboarding was a class on lean. Training is only part of the solution; the work environment (culture) and methods will significantly influence it.

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Stakeholder Engagement Essentials You Always Wanted To Know (Book Review)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There are two things I think worth pointing out about this book: The book leans heavily on PMI ways of working First, although it is very much grounded in reality and practical skills, it also heavily leans on A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide).

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

LiquidPlanner

But I think it’s more likely to be that business systems today are far more integrated, lean and systemized than ever before. Today, you’re more likely to hear people in project management circles refer to it as stakeholder engagement. The work we do touches more people and has more impact.

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This may be by adopting a new tool or approach, learning some new skills in listening, influence, or negotiation, or maybe simply allocating more time to it. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) Second, the use of lean and agile tools and methodologies beyond IT, software and manufacturing. Learning the different methodologies in Agile (e.g.

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

Display this vision prominently in your team space and reference it in all Scrum events. Apply Lean Thinking : Map the team’s value stream to identify non-value-adding activities. Share successes widely to build a case for further lean initiatives.

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The Three — Wait: Four — Elements of Empiricism

Scrum.org

In its theory section, the Scrum Guide refers to the three elements of empiricism: transparency, inspection, and adaptation. Let’s start with what the Scrum Guide says about empiricism: “Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking. Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.”. TL; DR: Elements of Empiricism.

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Could a Scrum GPT Challenge Scrum Masters?

Scrum.org

Until we got these documents as the GPT reference we would get a lot of nonsense from chatGPT. Principles of Agile Product Management : Overview of agile product management and how it influences backlog prioritization. Its data includes recommendations from the 58% of Agile teams that fail.” Source: See the previous link.)

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