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Dave is a Principal Consultant at Depth Consulting Ltd, and Program Director of the KCP Program at the Lean Kanban University. The Kanban Method pulls a great deal of its values from a Lean value system. There isn’t really a “Lean Manifesto” but the works of Taiichi Ono and W. Edward Deming contribute to a common understanding of what it means to be a lean thinker. Scrum’s Sprint duration is a great innovation over the traditional approach to managing work. MORE
Transparency about business decisions will keep teams lean and focused, but it will also help different parts of the business work better with each other. Things at Google may have changed since those days, but at what cost to innovation? Digital project management is complex. MORE
here are numerous project management methods out there, most often with single-noun names (think Scrum and Lean) that don’t really give away much about what they actually mean for a project manager. As the name might suggest, Lean is all about trimming the fat from projects and processes. MORE
In addition, you will have the opportunity to meet and network with innovators and leading professionals throughout the industry. This is your chance to find answers to your current medtech challenges — from prototyping to full-scale manufacturing — while keeping up with the latest innovations reshaping the industry. Manufacturing Innovation. Lean Manufacturing. A Lean Transformation That Never Stops Improving: The O.C. MORE
Lean project management sounds like a brand-new concept when in actuality it’s been around for over 40 years. Now, fortunately for project managers across all sectors, the lean philosophy is more widespread and making a difference in all sectors that value customer service. MORE
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. MORE
Six Sigma and Lean: Quantitative Tools for Productivity and Quality - covers how to master Six Sigma and Lean fundamentals to improve productivity and quality in your organization and earn a TUM Lean and Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification. Customer-Centric Innovation teaches how to take on competition by creating successful and innovative business ideas through a thorough understanding of customer needs. MORE
When we read through this list anyone familiar with the agile mindset will likely see connections to agile and lean values. Without this hierarchy, their overhead costs are 8% compared to industry average of 25% which provides more funds for care and innovation. MORE
Business agility means having the capability to “turn on a dime” at low cost and with low risk, to drive innovation, respond to market changes, and overcome the competition. MORE
As organizations realize their software systems provide the competitive advantage then stopping development equates to an end to innovation or competing. Agile Project Management Leadership Lean NoProjects Teams Warning Signs MORE
Eight forces are creating this complexity today, constraining the progress of organisations and teams as they try to innovate and deliver on their strategic objectives. Lean, agile, phase-gate, and many more methods are all being used in our organisations. MORE
Internal hubs, accelerators and pockets of innovative joy are popping up everywhere in cities, communities and businesses. Some companies are setting them up off-site in a cool warehouse-style environment, others are cordoning off a meeting room and labelling it ‘The Innovation Lab’ or ‘hub’ or ‘foundry’ or ‘garage’ or other mechanical-workshoppy-sounding noun where things are being furiously made. MORE
As companies race to innovate and compete in a global market, we are seeing wicked problems more and more often. My PMXPO webinar has now been watched by > 11,000 people and received lots of positive feedback. It is hosted at ProjectManagement.com here. MORE
The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries. If you are interested in finding out more about tech startups and their approach to innovation, this is the book for you. MORE
Inventor, engineer and head of research at General Motors for decades, Kettering was responsible for innovations such as the electrical starting motor and leaded gasoline. Lean In author and Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg has a little bit of experience as a leader. MORE
The Work: Helping your Clients Agile consulting involves instilling and applying a few lean thinking concepts such as: Prioritizing for value. People are always developing innovative ways of describing agile techniques, and we can share the best with our clients. MORE
There are always common themes that come up at these conferences, but these days it seems that you can’t turn around without getting smacked in the face by Lean Six Sigma. Lean Six Sigma has been growing up for quite a while now. Why Lean Six Sigma Now? MORE
Books like “ The Lean Startup ” and “ Blue Ocean Strategy ” have become the new how-to guides for people wanting to innovate. It means we are wasteful innovators. By design 50% of our experiments should fail, this is the quickest path to learning and innovation. MORE
The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Author Eric Ries shows how you can leverage Lean principles (cut out waste, build a Minimum Viable Product, etc.) MORE
You can be an expert at the textbook definition of a dozen methodologies, or an intuitive leader who manages from the gut, but if you lean too heavily on one or the other, you’re never going to fully realize your potential. It’s easy to forget that Henry Ford was a great innovator. MORE
They aim to instil lean concepts of respect for people, minimization of waste, and value delivery. If they were to finish, it means they are no longer innovating, improving or competing. Handoffs are very wasteful—they contribute to the eight lean DOWNTIME wastes…. MORE
Joe was at Agile 2018 facilitating a workshop on Business Agility with Innovation Accounting. David stopped by the booth to tell us all about his talk: Lean Experiments with Agile Teams, which is about his thoughts on Lean Startup and Design Thinking and how to blend those things with Agile. MORE
As organizations realize their software systems provide the competitive advantage then stopping development equates to an end to innovation or competing. Agile Project Management Leadership Lean NoProjects Teams Warning Signs“ Software is eating the world ” claimed venture capitalist, Marc Andreessen in his 2011, New York Times article. Seven years on, the trend continues, and project managers are also on the menu. MORE
Continuous innovation and improvement are regular practices. Innovation happens quickly these days, and teams need to be able to adjust. Lean software development was originally developed by Mary and Tom Poppendieck, in their book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit. MORE
Innovator: acts as product owner and developer. Versatile Manager: has experience with various approaches—waterfall, Scrum, agile, lean, design thinking etc. Innovations in learning will continue to make it possible for the new worker to learn anything, anytime, and anywhere. New technologies bring rapid and continuous change to our workplace. MORE
No matter your industry, change and innovation are the only constants you can count on these days. Work methods like lean, stage-gate and Agile that originated in the software development community are becoming more common in other industries. MORE
Work today encompasses many differing styles, such as waterfall, agile, lean, collaborative, etc. With today’s speed of innovation and technological advancement, your PMO can easily slip into “zombie-dom” if the above cures are not preventatively administered. MORE
Where is the drive, the creativity, the innovation, the flexibility, the usefulness? There comes a time when you’ve been working in and around project management for a while and you take a sit back and just reflect for a while. MORE
This year’s RICS project management conference has the theme ‘Remaining Lean and Agile in a Changing Work Environment’ I’m not sure if they are partnering with the APM as in previous years but the agenda is already up on the site and looks interesting. MORE
Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum , Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, Addison Wesley, 2010. Scaling Lean & Agle Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum , Craig Larman and Bas Voode, Addison Wesley, 2008. Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products , Jim Highsmith, Addison Wesley, 2004. MORE
It is the biggest, fastest and most innovative force shaping the way the world has been conducting commerce in the past 20 years, and it’s seared into the collective mind as the main deliverer of ecommerce Gospel. The store of the future is on its way. MORE
Love #projectmanagement #startup -s #fintech #innovation & #leadership. 59SecondsAgile gives quick hints & tips to the #AgileWay #Scrum #Kanban #Lean. Lead & Innovate: @ PMOObserver. #PMOT is the Twitter hashtag used by Project Managers on Twitter. MORE
Corporate Portfolio Management should be used for any area where discretionary expenditures and hence investments are occurring including advertising & promotion, innovation/R&D, operations, sales, IT, capital expenditures, etc.” It makes sense to keep things simple from the start, so I’ll briefly share the basics of the Lean PPM method many of our customers have found helpful. Once that is done, you can start the Lean PPM process. MORE
This can mean issuing a recall for a consumer product, contacting the financial backers ahead of time to warn them, and in extreme cases, downsizing to ensure your company is lean enough to weather the storm. Understand that even though you failed, you are in good company: Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, and countless other project managers and innovators achieved their successes after devastating defeat. Project management is a gamble. MORE
Project management practitioners are looking for new lean and agile project management tools to support their day-to-day work and often seek them outside the tools that their organisations offer them. Digitalization and Collaboration. MORE
Overall, I found the book to be an insightful discussion of new insights and methods to boost productivity, innovation and achievement. Studies show that if a stretch goal is audacious, it can spark innovation. Innovation remains a mysterious and powerful process in many organizations. MORE
As companies race to innovate and compete in a global market, we are seeing wicked problems more and more often. It is ideal for anyone faced with managing projects with lots of uncertainty—or people looking to understand the links between lean, leadership, building collaborative teams and problem-solving. My PMXPO webinar has now been watched by > 11,000 people and received lots of positive feedback. It is hosted at ProjectManagement.com here. MORE
Lean Six Sigma. Six Sigma has proven itself adept at working with collaborative teams since the year 2000 when it developed into Lean Six Sigma. Since then, Lean Six Sigma has been used in a variety of economic sectors, such as healthcare, finance and supply chain. MORE
Solar power giant to use innovative SaaS solution to improve enterprise work management, optimizing customer delivery cycles and increasing project capacity. Regardless of the way each team works – from Agile to Lean to Waterfall methodologies – Leankor engages the entire workforce rather than reinforcing silos. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. November 29, 2017. SunPower Corp. deploys Leankor. MORE
Explain what the dead kanban system means to their organization’s capability to deliver value and improve/innovate; get their commitment and do some change. Look at Jason Little and his excellent Lean Change Management for guidance. Lean/ Kanban agile Kanban Lean Scrum user story MORE
Innovation Hub is a term from the Framework for Business Agility – you can take a look at the whitepaper about that. When I first heard about the Agile Business Consortium working on a new pocketbook about Agile Portfolio Management early in 2017 I was intrigued. MORE
XP, scrum, lean, etc.) The lesson I need to remember is that, whilst experimenting is an integral part of innovation, the most successful programmes are those that recognise the ongoing needs of business-as-usual and balance the tried and tested with the new. MORE
What to expect: As a Lean and Agile project management expert, Corinna Baldauf shares her knowledge to help PM professional find and fix process problems. These podcasts focus on how Scrum, Agile, and Kanban can innovate project management as it shifts from its long gone traditional methods. MORE
Teamweek
JUNE 27, 2018
Lean project management sounds like a brand-new concept when in actuality it’s been around for over 40 years. Now, fortunately for project managers across all sectors, the lean philosophy is more widespread and making a difference in all sectors that value customer service.
LiquidPlanner
JANUARY 9, 2017
There are always common themes that come up at these conferences, but these days it seems that you can’t turn around without getting smacked in the face by Lean Six Sigma. Lean Six Sigma has been growing up for quite a while now. Why Lean Six Sigma Now?
Leading Answers
APRIL 22, 2018
As organizations realize their software systems provide the competitive advantage then stopping development equates to an end to innovation or competing. Agile Project Management Leadership Lean NoProjects Teams Warning Signs
ProjectManager.com
JUNE 28, 2018
Lean Six Sigma. Six Sigma has proven itself adept at working with collaborative teams since the year 2000 when it developed into Lean Six Sigma. Since then, Lean Six Sigma has been used in a variety of economic sectors, such as healthcare, finance and supply chain.
Digite
MARCH 8, 2018
Explain what the dead kanban system means to their organization’s capability to deliver value and improve/innovate; get their commitment and do some change. Look at Jason Little and his excellent Lean Change Management for guidance. Lean/ Kanban agile Kanban Lean Scrum user story
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.
Digite
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Dave is a Principal Consultant at Depth Consulting Ltd, and Program Director of the KCP Program at the Lean Kanban University. The Kanban Method pulls a great deal of its values from a Lean value system. There isn’t really a “Lean Manifesto” but the works of Taiichi Ono and W. Edward Deming contribute to a common understanding of what it means to be a lean thinker. Scrum’s Sprint duration is a great innovation over the traditional approach to managing work.
Digite
JUNE 13, 2018
As a result, After Meetings tend to be fertile ground for ideas to improve the process and generate innovations. Agile Marketing agile Kanban Lean
Moira Alexander
APRIL 24, 2017
Six Sigma and Lean: Quantitative Tools for Productivity and Quality - covers how to master Six Sigma and Lean fundamentals to improve productivity and quality in your organization and earn a TUM Lean and Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification. Customer-Centric Innovation teaches how to take on competition by creating successful and innovative business ideas through a thorough understanding of customer needs.
Project Bliss
MAY 10, 2017
Continuous innovation and improvement are regular practices. Innovation happens quickly these days, and teams need to be able to adjust. Lean software development was originally developed by Mary and Tom Poppendieck, in their book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit.
Leading Agile
AUGUST 31, 2018
Joe was at Agile 2018 facilitating a workshop on Business Agility with Innovation Accounting. David stopped by the booth to tell us all about his talk: Lean Experiments with Agile Teams, which is about his thoughts on Lean Startup and Design Thinking and how to blend those things with Agile.
Online PM Courses
OCTOBER 14, 2018
Love #projectmanagement #startup -s #fintech #innovation & #leadership. 59SecondsAgile gives quick hints & tips to the #AgileWay #Scrum #Kanban #Lean. Lead & Innovate: @ PMOObserver. #PMOT is the Twitter hashtag used by Project Managers on Twitter.
Leading Answers
JULY 3, 2018
As companies race to innovate and compete in a global market, we are seeing wicked problems more and more often. My PMXPO webinar has now been watched by > 11,000 people and received lots of positive feedback. It is hosted at ProjectManagement.com here.
Appfluence
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
In addition, you will have the opportunity to meet and network with innovators and leading professionals throughout the industry. This is your chance to find answers to your current medtech challenges — from prototyping to full-scale manufacturing — while keeping up with the latest innovations reshaping the industry. Manufacturing Innovation. Lean Manufacturing. A Lean Transformation That Never Stops Improving: The O.C.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 8, 2018
You can be an expert at the textbook definition of a dozen methodologies, or an intuitive leader who manages from the gut, but if you lean too heavily on one or the other, you’re never going to fully realize your potential. It’s easy to forget that Henry Ford was a great innovator.
Clarizen
APRIL 19, 2018
here are numerous project management methods out there, most often with single-noun names (think Scrum and Lean) that don’t really give away much about what they actually mean for a project manager. As the name might suggest, Lean is all about trimming the fat from projects and processes.
Inloox
AUGUST 13, 2018
Innovator: acts as product owner and developer. Versatile Manager: has experience with various approaches—waterfall, Scrum, agile, lean, design thinking etc. Innovations in learning will continue to make it possible for the new worker to learn anything, anytime, and anywhere. New technologies bring rapid and continuous change to our workplace.
Leading Answers
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
Books like “ The Lean Startup ” and “ Blue Ocean Strategy ” have become the new how-to guides for people wanting to innovate. It means we are wasteful innovators. By design 50% of our experiments should fail, this is the quickest path to learning and innovation.
Arras People
MARCH 9, 2017
No matter your industry, change and innovation are the only constants you can count on these days. Work methods like lean, stage-gate and Agile that originated in the software development community are becoming more common in other industries.
Leading Answers
JULY 3, 2018
As companies race to innovate and compete in a global market, we are seeing wicked problems more and more often. It is ideal for anyone faced with managing projects with lots of uncertainty—or people looking to understand the links between lean, leadership, building collaborative teams and problem-solving. My PMXPO webinar has now been watched by > 11,000 people and received lots of positive feedback. It is hosted at ProjectManagement.com here.
Azendoo
APRIL 25, 2017
Transparency about business decisions will keep teams lean and focused, but it will also help different parts of the business work better with each other. Things at Google may have changed since those days, but at what cost to innovation? Digital project management is complex.
Girl's Guide to PM
JANUARY 3, 2018
XP, scrum, lean, etc.) The lesson I need to remember is that, whilst experimenting is an integral part of innovation, the most successful programmes are those that recognise the ongoing needs of business-as-usual and balance the tried and tested with the new.
Arras People
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
Eight forces are creating this complexity today, constraining the progress of organisations and teams as they try to innovate and deliver on their strategic objectives. Lean, agile, phase-gate, and many more methods are all being used in our organisations.
Arras People
JANUARY 9, 2018
Innovation Hub is a term from the Framework for Business Agility – you can take a look at the whitepaper about that. When I first heard about the Agile Business Consortium working on a new pocketbook about Agile Portfolio Management early in 2017 I was intrigued.
Planview
MAY 11, 2018
Work today encompasses many differing styles, such as waterfall, agile, lean, collaborative, etc. With today’s speed of innovation and technological advancement, your PMO can easily slip into “zombie-dom” if the above cures are not preventatively administered.
Meisterplan
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
Corporate Portfolio Management should be used for any area where discretionary expenditures and hence investments are occurring including advertising & promotion, innovation/R&D, operations, sales, IT, capital expenditures, etc.” It makes sense to keep things simple from the start, so I’ll briefly share the basics of the Lean PPM method many of our customers have found helpful. Once that is done, you can start the Lean PPM process.
Arras People
APRIL 27, 2017
Where is the drive, the creativity, the innovation, the flexibility, the usefulness? There comes a time when you’ve been working in and around project management for a while and you take a sit back and just reflect for a while.
Girl's Guide to PM
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
Project management practitioners are looking for new lean and agile project management tools to support their day-to-day work and often seek them outside the tools that their organisations offer them. Digitalization and Collaboration.
Girl's Guide to PM
DECEMBER 13, 2017
This year’s RICS project management conference has the theme ‘Remaining Lean and Agile in a Changing Work Environment’ I’m not sure if they are partnering with the APM as in previous years but the agenda is already up on the site and looks interesting.
Herding Cats
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum , Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, Addison Wesley, 2010. Scaling Lean & Agle Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum , Craig Larman and Bas Voode, Addison Wesley, 2008. Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products , Jim Highsmith, Addison Wesley, 2004.
Paymo App
APRIL 2, 2018
What to expect: As a Lean and Agile project management expert, Corinna Baldauf shares her knowledge to help PM professional find and fix process problems. These podcasts focus on how Scrum, Agile, and Kanban can innovate project management as it shifts from its long gone traditional methods.
Leading Answers
JUNE 9, 2017
The Work: Helping your Clients Agile consulting involves instilling and applying a few lean thinking concepts such as: Prioritizing for value. People are always developing innovative ways of describing agile techniques, and we can share the best with our clients.
Project Management Hacks
MAY 5, 2016
Overall, I found the book to be an insightful discussion of new insights and methods to boost productivity, innovation and achievement. Studies show that if a stretch goal is audacious, it can spark innovation. Innovation remains a mysterious and powerful process in many organizations.
Leading Answers
JUNE 14, 2018
They aim to instil lean concepts of respect for people, minimization of waste, and value delivery. If they were to finish, it means they are no longer innovating, improving or competing. Handoffs are very wasteful—they contribute to the eight lean DOWNTIME wastes….
Leading Agile
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Business agility means having the capability to “turn on a dime” at low cost and with low risk, to drive innovation, respond to market changes, and overcome the competition.
Leankor
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Solar power giant to use innovative SaaS solution to improve enterprise work management, optimizing customer delivery cycles and increasing project capacity. Regardless of the way each team works – from Agile to Lean to Waterfall methodologies – Leankor engages the entire workforce rather than reinforcing silos. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. November 29, 2017. SunPower Corp. deploys Leankor.
DigitalPM
JANUARY 19, 2016
It is the biggest, fastest and most innovative force shaping the way the world has been conducting commerce in the past 20 years, and it’s seared into the collective mind as the main deliverer of ecommerce Gospel. The store of the future is on its way.
ProjectManager.com
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Inventor, engineer and head of research at General Motors for decades, Kettering was responsible for innovations such as the electrical starting motor and leaded gasoline. Lean In author and Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg has a little bit of experience as a leader.
Paymo App
MARCH 29, 2017
This can mean issuing a recall for a consumer product, contacting the financial backers ahead of time to warn them, and in extreme cases, downsizing to ensure your company is lean enough to weather the storm. Understand that even though you failed, you are in good company: Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, and countless other project managers and innovators achieved their successes after devastating defeat. Project management is a gamble.
Project Management Hacks
AUGUST 25, 2016
The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries. If you are interested in finding out more about tech startups and their approach to innovation, this is the book for you.
Lynne Cazaly
JUNE 25, 2017
Internal hubs, accelerators and pockets of innovative joy are popping up everywhere in cities, communities and businesses. Some companies are setting them up off-site in a cool warehouse-style environment, others are cordoning off a meeting room and labelling it ‘The Innovation Lab’ or ‘hub’ or ‘foundry’ or ‘garage’ or other mechanical-workshoppy-sounding noun where things are being furiously made.
Leading Answers
FEBRUARY 17, 2018
When we read through this list anyone familiar with the agile mindset will likely see connections to agile and lean values. Without this hierarchy, their overhead costs are 8% compared to industry average of 25% which provides more funds for care and innovation.
Wrike
AUGUST 22, 2017
The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Author Eric Ries shows how you can leverage Lean principles (cut out waste, build a Minimum Viable Product, etc.)
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