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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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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

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. This means this methodology greatly influences how your team operates and might even require you to make hiring decisions based on it. What Is Kanban?

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

LiquidPlanner

So much of what you might have read about online or in project management books, or even be taught on training courses, is simply not aligned the skills we need to use every day. We need to make sure that the skills we spend our valuable training dollars on are the right ones. And that was on a training course quite recently.

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Lean Portfolio Management Operations: An Agile Approach

Planview

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. Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE).

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Good Scrum Master; Bad Scrum Master

Scrum.org

Bad scrum masters think that just because they attended the scrum master training and passed the Professional Scrum Master (PSM) level one test they know all there is. They use their influence to help individuals and their development teams to take greater responsibility for how they develop the product and the quality they produce.

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How to Fix 5 Project Management Skills Gaps

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As a project manager, you are expected to have all-round skills encompassing the technical fields of project management like planning and scheduling, through to the interpersonal skills like communicating up and influencing others. And I don’t have them all – I’m aware of that. Your team knows all this stuff, so draw on their knowledge.

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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. He runs the online training site, OnlinePMCourses.com. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) Visual, lean tools that truly engage all team members are going to become essential.

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