Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

TL; DR: The Illusion of Velocity In this article, I explore the pitfalls of ‘The Illusion of Velocity’ in agile contexts, peeling back the layers of traditional metrics as leadership tools. Moreover, I point to the advantages gained from leadership engaging directly with teams. It’s a direct measure of efficiency in the workflow.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Losing the Ability to Innovate You often see companies that grow successfully to the point where it seems their ability to innovate stalls. When you look deeper, you see them struggling to cope with growing technical complexity, coordination costs across teams, and leadership bottlenecks.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 13, 2023

Some examples of the challenges I’m called in to help with: Losing the Ability to Innovate You often see companies that grow successfully to the point where it seems their ability to innovate stalls. This affects product innovation as well as GTM innovation and other key business processes. What should we focus on now?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Integrating a learning perspective shifts our approach, opening doors to more agile, responsive, and sustainable change initiatives. Historically, transformation strategies often leaned heavily on 'command and control' tactics. Setting leadership’s role in learning. What Is Transformation Strategy? Empower through knowledge.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2022

Many of those initial agile meetups were driven by the need to share a different way of working compared to the waterfall approach, an approach inspired by the industrial, mass-production mindset. Neuman also discusses the role of innovation in the Deployment Phase. Reduction of cost allows use everywhere.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2019

They’re refocusing their efforts to align portfolios to finish strong for the fiscal year and are launching new initiatives to support strategic plans for the calendar year. High performing teams don’t just happen overnight, but competent project managers with great leadership skills can help motivate, coach and inspire teams.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In fact, in some lean or agile organizations, over-reliance on documentation is seen as a clear impediment to innovation and collaboration. The business case traditionally is a document that defines the core business benefit of a project in order to justify the expenditure of the initiative. Before You Start Your Business Case.

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Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

Challenges arise when senior leadership has yet to adopt an Agile mindset, even if their teams have. Each participant in our roundtable admitted that leadership and organizational culture were the largest obstacles when implementing Agile. Senior leaders provide space to innovate, but not how. Budget limitations. Cost of delay.

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Moira Alexander

APRIL 24, 2017

Project Management Life Cycle - a course on how to apply project management tools, processes, and techniques for the successful execution of a project from initiation to closing. Related story: 6 ways to be a better project manager ]. Coursersa's full project management course list can be found here.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 7, 2024

As the Agile project management framework reaches adoption maturity at lean, progressive and disruptive startup firms, many teams at established organizations are struggling to fully embrace the Agile project management framework at scale. With this knowledge, you can approach your Agile transformation in different ways.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Skilled workforce – A highly skilled and motivated workforce can contribute to innovation, quality improvement, and customer service excellence, thereby adding value to the firm’s operations. Unique organizational culture – This shapes how firms operate and innovate.

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Planio

MARCH 9, 2021

A lean product team strikes the perfect balance. Balancing innovation with execution and expectations. The ideal lean product team structure at every stage (according to teams that scaled quickly). But hire too slowly and you might overload your team with too much work and miss important opportunities for growth. Stage 3: Scale.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

September 27, 2022 : Join 200-plus peers at the 45th Hands-on Agile Meetup: FAST: An Innovative Way to Scale with James Shore. 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.”. Empiricism.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

This method has driven companies to new heights of efficiency and innovation, enriching every facet of project execution - from planning to evaluation - and boosting effectiveness and adaptability. Continuous improvement, or Kaizen, has revolutionized business practices since its inception in post-war Japan. What is Continuous Improvement?

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This is generally initiated by the customer/client or stakeholders. Lean A project management philosophy that aims to maximize value while minimizing waste. Lean Six Sigma Combining Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to eliminate defects and waste. Projects are generally a mechanism for change and may leverage innovation.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 18, 2020

They consider Agile, Scrum and Lean to be things that might improve delivery and teams' productivity. Inability to innovate. No changes are following the audit report and initial proposals. Traditional empowerment may be converted into Agile leadership. It becomes an organizational impediment. Hierarchy and culture.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 4, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you looking to elevate your leadership style to foster a more dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team? Dive deeper into understanding and applying Scrum's lightweight, agile framework in your leadership practice. Courage fosters an environment where continual improvement is possible.

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Wrike

JANUARY 30, 2024

To achieve this, you will need a clear vision, effective leadership, and a willingness to capitalize on market opportunities. Consider a manufacturing firm that implements Lean manufacturing principles to streamline its production processes. Implementing innovation Invest in research and development to foster innovation.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

Initially focusing strictly on empowering teams to develop products and solutions faster and more efficiently, the tremendous success in doing business this way led to large enterprise-level organizations scaling the practice to meet their needs, even extending beyond the product organization. . What is SAFe?

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 13, 2021

41% proclaimed absence of leadership to be the main problem. Scaled Agile Framework is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, competencies for attaining business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps. Ensuring quality is an innate characteristic of Lean and Flow. Coach lean-agile change agents.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

If Thomas Edison was right when he said, “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration,” then consider these leadership quotes the one percent. So, we’ve collected 25 of the most inspiring leadership quotes to give you that extra boost. Leadership Quotes. It’s not people-pleasing.

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Henny Portman

APRIL 3, 2020

The 10X Growth Machine – How companies can innovate, scale and win , written by Misha de Sterke, is a book to build your own growth machine by using innovation as a means. Growth governance : Lean innovation process and venture boards, growth policy playbook, and growth accounting. Creative destruction is accelerating.

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The Strategic Project Manager

JULY 25, 2023

Enhance operational efficiency by implementing lean methodologies and reducing waste. Employee Development : Increase employee engagement scores by 10% through employee recognition and development initiatives. Enhance leadership capabilities by providing training and mentorship programs for managers.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Fosters a culture of continuous improvement within the organization: It empowers employees to take ownership of their work, encourages collaboration, and promotes innovation. These components include: Leadership Commitment An operational excellence strategy requires strong leadership commitment.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Top-down management is replaced by leadership, allowance for people’s creativity and delegation of decisions. They represent consistent and aligned leadership. In modern, Agile or Lean organizations, the customers, employees and value delivered, is the most important concern. [3]. They foster a positive, agile culture.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

If incumbents do not see it, they are vulnerable to startups who can innovate and eventually replace them. Build a lean innovation capability. Leverage the network – Some direct business initiatives may change, but the underlying network to support them can grow and create increasing value.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Product life cycle is linked to creativity, invention, and insight – a method, a discipline, and a formal process followed by a company from the initial conception of an idea till the market launch of the physical product. Enabling and nurturing of innovative ideas, . and is passionate about all things agile and leadership.

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Agilemania

JULY 26, 2022

Using SAFe®, the world’s leading framework for enterprise agility, organizations are able to adopt lean-agile principles and values throughout the enterprise. In different industries, agile and lean techniques are increasingly being adopted as companies seek to innovate and re-invent. Lean Portfolio Management (LPM).

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

By embracing this model, businesses can transform their operations and achieve higher levels of efficiency, innovation, and overall success. This involves streamlining workflows, eliminating waste, and embracing lean methodologies. Resistance to change: Can hinder the implementation of operational excellence initiatives.

Technical Review 36

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Wrike

JANUARY 5, 2024

Initially known as Policy Deployment, this process aimed to align a company’s top-level strategic objectives with its frontline activities. Over the years, Hoshin Planning became a reliable approach to strategic management, as it combines principles such as lean thinking, continuous improvement, and employee involvement.

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International Institute for Learning

MARCH 1, 2023

All of these well-trotted expressions speak to an outdated model of leadership. Having worked with over 200 organizations and trained over 15,000 managers and leaders , I see a clear pattern: The organizations and industries that need this new kind of leadership most, are often the ones who resist it the most. Suck it up, buttercup.”

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Planview

MARCH 6, 2020

The Project Management Institute (PMI) asked this question for the first time ever for its 2020 Pulse of the Profession ® report, knowing that organizations are rewiring to innovate and deliver competitive products and services quickly. Executives expect PMOs to be the catalyst for this change.

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Digite

AUGUST 14, 2017

I caught up with Kanban pioneer David Anderson on the sidelines of Lean Kanban Central Europe and Lean Kanban India last year and asked him about his thoughts. While Scrum is probably most prevalent in IT, Kanban and Lean are significant too. The approaches to achieving enterprise-wide agility are keenly debated.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

This includes optimizing inventory levels, reducing waste through lean manufacturing principles, implementing energy-saving initiatives, and negotiating favorable supplier contracts. Strong leadership skills: Motivate and inspire your teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We love having you join us twice a month to be motivated and inspired by project stories and leadership lessons, and advice from industry experts from all around the world. Verbal communication is one of their greatest strengths because they initially struggled with reading and writing. Try to connect these people.

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By: Dr. Michael Shick, MSPM, PMP, CSM Have you ever initiated a project with tremendous enthusiasm, only to find the feeling fleeting amidst confusion, misunderstanding, and being overwhelmed? It's where the vision from the project initiation phase is transformed into actionable steps.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

By understanding these factors, organizations can navigate the path towards improved efficiency, innovation, and long-term success. By embracing transformation initiatives, you can improve operational efficiency, enhance product and service quality, reduce costs, and ultimately gain a competitive edge.

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