Leading Answers

JUNE 19, 2019

If success goes to those who can innovate the fastest, how do we nurture innovation? To innovate faster than our competitors, we need to maximize our learning potential. It starts with leadership and cascades down to a shared mindset of team members. There will be obstacles and dead-ends along the way, and that is okay.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

However, only 5% of businesses have included leadership development. Leadership is a critical success factor for any organization. Providing practical and inspiring leadership can differentiate between an organization thriving or failing. The most important thing is that leadership is about more than just one person.

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The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Agile and lean are not the same thing but are closely related. This post looks at the idea of ‘lean agile’ and its application to project management and strategy. What Is Lean Agile Project Management? In the case of waterfall, each step or process must be completed before starting the next step.

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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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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. Excessive Planning and Control : The illusion of control among managers results in a tendency to over-plan and control every aspect of the development process. Share successes widely to build a case for further lean initiatives.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2018

It can mean different things within various organizations or circumstances, but there is a way to broadly outline this business process improvement methodology and define its beginnings, its, rise, its use and its implementation. As noted, it’s a methodology used to improve the quality of an output in a process. Leadership is critical.

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Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The problem is that when there’s no agency processes in place, and your team isn’t organized properly, the latter tends to take up a lot of time, and may make up more of your day than is spent on your client-facing projects. Enter the realm of agency processes — an essential way that you can win back your time.

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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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International Institute for Learning

JULY 13, 2023

Abstract The field of project management has witnessed numerous advancements and continuous improvement efforts across various leadership applications and management domains. As AI agents take over certain processes, forms, and checklists, the role of EQ in project management becomes even more critical. and Elissa Farrow, Ph.D.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 11, 2024

Scrum emphasizes team collaboration, regular reflection on work processes, and continuous improvement. Courage Courage in Scrum embodies the agile team's strength to tackle challenging tasks, voice concerns, and innovate despite uncertainty. The Five Scrum Values So, what are the Scrum Values?

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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. Didn’t we just say that a centralized PMO undermined LPM?

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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.

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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. Execute actionable guidelines based on a proven framework to realize these goals.

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Wrike

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the business world, organizations must come up with strategic planning processes that enable them to set ambitious goals, align their resources, and drive continuous improvement. In this article, we will delve into the intricacies of Hoshin Planning, exploring its role in strategic success, the implementation process, and more.

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And yet for many years, the various Agile approaches appear to have been at war with one another. All too often, Agile is offered as a binary choice (“you are either agile or not agile”), together with the recommendation that one Agile approach (usually the one being “sold in”) is all you need.

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The common factor linking them is the business case process must involve close scrutiny of all relevant financial and non-financial aspects of a proposed project to ensure that the best possible solution is selected for a given set of circumstances.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This team of e Agile Transformation Coaches will consist of people focused on executive-level understanding and leadership, people that teach team-level technical practices, and everything in between. The TL partners with and works alongside the C-Suite to create innovative and customized solutions to meet the business’ needs.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Factors that can make imitation difficult include legal protections, unique historical conditions, or complex organizational processes. This includes factors such as managerial expertise, effective processes, supportive organizational culture, and organizational project management capabilities.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2022

Many of the changes the pandemic brought us around how we order food, consume entertainment, pay bills or even visit the doctor will become the norm, which in turn will create a cascade effect with their associated business processes becoming more digital. . Neuman also discusses the role of innovation in the Deployment Phase.

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Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

High flexibility, adaptability and increased communication are just a few of the benefits that have led to significant improvements through the introduction of agile work processes in organizations. Lean Agile Leadership: Managers are the very core of lean agile development and business agility.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2019

Of course, this assumes that organizations are streamlining processes, using new digital transformation approaches or methods and are assigning competent project managers to lead small, medium and large teams. Behaviors and competencies for lean and fast teams can differ in many ways. Project Performance Affects the Bottom Line.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The information collected in these Q&As will act as valuable assets for anyone wanting to make clear the real need for more adaptive product development and to show that an accelerated process is still highly possible, even in the face of consistent disruptions. Q&A from Accelerating Innovation: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

Some of the ideas that find themselves in business agility came from the study of complexity science and the notion of complex adaptive systems, where a perfect understanding of parts of the process doesn’t translate into a perfect understanding of the whole system’s behavior. At the center of any business agility framework is innovation.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Definition: Understanding transformation as a strategic approach to rethinking and reshaping organizational processes, culture, and goals. Historically, transformation strategies often leaned heavily on 'command and control' tactics. Why a Learning Perspective? Shifting our focus to why a learning perspective is pivotal.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The essence is to maintain a lean backlog, prioritising tasks that deliver genuine value and avoiding the trap of trying to do everything at once. In the agile realm, Martin highlights how Sloth manifests in various forms across teams, organisations, and leadership. The absence of an ordered backlog is another telltale sign.

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Moira Alexander

APRIL 24, 2017

Six Sigma: Define and Measure - an introduction to the Six Sigma methodology and DMAIC cycle for process improvement with a focus on the define and measure phases. 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.

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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. Inspection.

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Planio

MARCH 9, 2021

Add too many new team members too quickly and you’ll burn through resources, get stuck in a never-ending cycle of onboarding, burn out your project managers , and risk injecting a ton of complication into your process. A lean product team strikes the perfect balance. Balancing innovation with execution and expectations.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Each profitable organization, from Microsoft to Google, is striving for methods to integrate agile ideas into its process. In the business world innovation is the one thing that never changes. In order to maintain the user experience at the forefront of the development process, businesses concentrate on using scaled agile frameworks.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 13, 2023

They should be well versed on product management, design, other agile and lean agile approaches. If you are doing some other kind of Lean Agile, you might be using Kaizen, where you agree to continually improve or continuously improve. As a scrum master, you should not only have scrum in your toolbox. Encourage that improvement.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 24, 2023

and Cynthia Snyder Dionisio, explain that project management methodologies (PMM) are frameworks comprising principles, processes, procedures, and techniques used to accomplish work. The traditional PMM, often referred to as the waterfall approach, follows a sequential process and is suitable for projects with well-defined requirements.

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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.

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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. Again, you’ll want to have this process also documented in your business case. Now, it’s not just an exercise to appease senior leadership. Before You Start Your Business Case.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Business Analysis A process in which an individual identifies business needs, defines solutions and facilitates change to meet organizational goals. Change Control A formal process of documenting, reviewing, approving, and managing a change to a project’s scope, schedule, budget, or quality parameters.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 18, 2020

This is an ongoing process of continuous improvements, running inspection and adaptation. Secondly, in some organizations, the process of Agile Transformation takes many years, yet still, the results are unsatisfactory. People related to this process might ask themselves: "Why is that? Agile is not designed for us.").

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

Possessing a toolkit that makes complex project management easier to handle and raises the success rate of the project and its leadership is undoubtedly advantageous. They provide a structured approach to understanding complex processes, decision frameworks, or phenomena, serving as thinking strategies.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 13, 2021

46% of the organizations reported they are inconsistencies in practices and processes. 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.

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