The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When other firms possess similar resources or capabilities, a firm cannot achieve a sustained competitive advantage. It helps to identify areas where they have a sustainable competitive advantage. This enhances long-term profitability and sustainability. Management expertise and leadership qualities are critical.

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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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Planio

MARCH 9, 2021

A lean product team strikes the perfect balance. The ideal lean product team structure at every stage (according to teams that scaled quickly). At Planio , we’re big believers in the power of sustainable growth. One of the key elements of sustainable growth is knowing when a problem needs to be solved. Stage 3: Scale.

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Resource Guru

JUNE 27, 2023

Time to complete projects (N-F): The speed at which your agency can complete projects, particularly when compared to initial estimates, can be a good indicator of operational efficiency. Keep your tech stack lean, functional, and user-friendly. Don’t want to have expensive tech debt.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

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.”. Also, a Scrum team must have the agency to initiate any necessary adaptation. Empiricism. The Fourth Element of Empiricism: Trust.

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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. First of all, business growth is not just limited to high sales and revenue.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Too many OKRs are set without any respect/consideration of the ability to deliver them sustainably while dealing with other work in the organization. OKR Theater has the potential to become a member of a big family – Scrum Theater, Agile Theater, SAFe Theater, Lean Theater, Six Sigma Theater; you get the picture.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

It became a global phenomenon through the influence of business philosophies like Total Quality Management (TQM) and methodologies such as Lean Methodology and Six Sigma, which emphasized systematic, strategic changes to eliminate waste, streamline processes, and eliminate waste and inefficiency.

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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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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

By implementing an effective operational excellence strategy, companies can streamline their processes, optimize performance, and achieve sustainable growth. These components include: Leadership Commitment An operational excellence strategy requires strong leadership commitment.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to stay competitive and drive sustainable growth. This involves streamlining workflows, eliminating waste, and embracing lean methodologies. Resistance to change: Can hinder the implementation of operational excellence initiatives.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Providing guiding vision for shared goal setting is, in my opinion, the most important focus area, and the one that survives even after the organization and culture are largely self-managing and self-sustaining. As Nicolo Machiavelli observed, . “It By strategic, I mean bold and audacious; both aspirational and inspirational.

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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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Scrum.org

JANUARY 13, 2020

Learn more about how to kick-off this process with an initial day-long product mindset workshop for your Scrum team. What is the purpose of creating and embracing a product vision if you cannot figure out how providing value to customers according to that vision turns into a sustainable business? What Do We Know about our Customers? .

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Henny Portman

APRIL 3, 2020

In the book we get an integrated set of building blocks, principles and tools to create different (disruptive, sustaining and efficiency) innovations as a structural way of working. Growth governance : Lean innovation process and venture boards, growth policy playbook, and growth accounting. Measure to improve, not to judge!

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

By embracing transformation initiatives, you can improve operational efficiency, enhance product and service quality, reduce costs, and ultimately gain a competitive edge. This allows companies to allocate resources more efficiently and invest in strategic initiatives that drive long-term growth.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

It is no longer enough to launch “initiatives,” “programs” or “projects” to undertake work. They aim to instil lean concepts of respect for people, minimization of waste, and value delivery. Handoffs are very wasteful—they contribute to the eight lean DOWNTIME wastes…. Transformations are flavor of the month.

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Teamweek

JULY 28, 2022

Work with leadership to turn strategy into action. Leadership” typically includes directors, vice presidents, or CEOs in larger companies. In smaller agencies and consultancies, leadership could mean the business owner or a client. Typically, the leadership defines annual goals along with a broad strategy to achieve them.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Normally I get on these videos and do a little bit of the talking head stuff about things that I consider myself a domain expert in, but we were having a conversation with my leadership team a couple of weeks ago around the idea of OKRs KPIs. Andrew is one of our advisor level consultancies that’s on my leadership team.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

It is no longer enough to launch “initiatives,” “programs” or “projects” to undertake work. They aim to instil lean concepts of respect for people, minimization of waste, and value delivery. Handoffs are very wasteful—they contribute to the eight lean DOWNTIME wastes…. Transformations are flavor of the month.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Agile Lean Sustainability 60

The IIL Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

That anxiety has now receded at large, along with many initially urgent drives for diversity, inclusion, and sustainability. Critical thinking becomes more complex as our minds frequently lean on familiar paths, often favoring convenience and efficiency in innovations as they mirror the brain’s workings.

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Stepping Into Project Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Organizations ask for thorough cost-benefit analysis or business case to justify change initiative. Organizational leadership takes note of stealth agile implementations and appreciates their success. Actors who are compensating and sustaining late status quo find their situation is no longer tenable.

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Techno-PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

This process of a business attempting to shift away from its previous way of doing things is 'Lean transformation'. What makes Lean transformation different from any other approach is its focus on the customer. Lean is all about delivering greater value to customers, and the waste elimination that comes with it is merely a bonus.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

Implementing Scrum or XP or Lean Startup on top of a tightly coupled legacy mainframe system is a recipe for disaster. You’ll end up with your initial state, several possible end-states, and several transition patterns. Transformation also isn’t telling your leadership they are bad, and they need to trust the team. Total chaos.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

And then tying that together into a network and then applying Lean principles to designing an organization that can get stuff done. So, also about the time that you and I met you were doing some work with PMI and the OPM three initiative? – Okay, cool. – Yeah, that’s right. – Yeah. – Right? – Yeah.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The ChatGPT Job Interview for a Product Owner Position Initial Prompt of the ChatGPT Product Owner job interview I used the following initial prompt to start the ChatGPT Product Owner job interview: I want you to act as a professional product manager and Product Owner.

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International Institute for Learning

JULY 26, 2022

Thought Leadership News : What is SAFe 5.1, Well, adopting the Scaled Agile Framework provides you with a basic model of roles, responsibilities, artifacts, and ceremonies that have been established to embrace Lean-Agile principles and relentlessly improve based on more than a decade’s experience of implementations and the latest research.

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The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The situation may appear to be stable, but changes are needed in order to avoid a downward trend and to attain a new sustainable level of success. Sustaining Success – This is the most stable situation. The organization is experiencing Sustainable Success and largely needs to maintain or tweak its processes and direction.

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ProProfs Project Management

MAY 4, 2021

A Process Improvement Plan consists of a series of processes designed to initiate improvement. Lean Tools. Lean tools comprise three specialized techniques that are best suited to remove 8 types of process waste – defects, overproduction, waiting, non-utilized talent, transportation, inventory, motion, and extra-processing.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

You have Lean. Many people confuse stewardship with leadership. Stewardship is different from leadership. Satya: Also, I have seen people saying stewardship is equal to servant leadership. Again, stewardship is much more than servant leadership. This, in one word is leadership. You have Agile.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 17, 2016

And enterprise governance policies lean towards favoring compliance with process over satisfaction of control objectives. Coaching on appropriate leadership and team member behavior can help but rarely will there be sufficient coaches in place to address the demand, not can they be procured in a time or cost-effective manner.

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Wrike

AUGUST 25, 2023

Long-term sustainability assists in withstanding economic downturns, industry disruptions, or changes in consumer behavior. Additionally, think of implementing agile and lean practices across the organization like Scrum or Kanban. Implementing Scalable Operations Efficient and scalable operations are critical for sustainable growth.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

The best books for crafting your leadership qualities. True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. Why you should read this: Once you master the materials inside the PMBOK you’ll have a process for initiating and successfully running any project.

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Paymo App

JANUARY 19, 2018

A project manager (PM) is responsible for leading an entire project through initiation, planning, execution, control, and completion. strong leadership skills. My best advice besides the general rules of project management (initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, closing) is to remain compassionate and composed.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I’d like to consider the following in this post: Sustainable Pace. Sustainable Pace. By setting a sustainable pace for the work, teams were able to maintain a steady rate of delivery, leading to greater predictability and hence easier planning. Note: sustainable is good; sustained is not.). Stable Team.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Is it the leadership’s responsibility for being agile, right? Yesterday’s weather and all those kinds of things, stable velocity, sustainable pace, all that kind of stuff, they don’t have to keep over committing. And they’re like, the product person is like, we need to be doing Lean Startup.

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