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Review Rethinking agile
Henny Portman
APRIL 28, 2020
Incorporate the drivers for lean business agility at every flight level (visualize, manage WIP, feedback loops, improve).
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The Digital Fluency Model
Henny Portman
MAY 11, 2020
Engineering Culture, Delivery Mindset: patterns and best practices of lean, iterative, and continuous delivery of software. My quest continues and continues. The Digital Fluency model is the next one to add to my Bird’s eye view on the agile forest article (thanks to Zaher Alhaj).
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Review 10X Growth Machine
Henny Portman
APRIL 3, 2020
Growth governance : Lean innovation process and venture boards, growth policy playbook, and growth accounting. Corporate venture building : Implementation of growth strategies and a lean startup way of working (small ninja teams).
Review: The art of business value
Henny Portman
APRIL 9, 2020
Following Eric Ries’ lean start-up approach, the product owner is no longer the interpreter of business value. Mark Schwartz is the author of The art of business value. You could see this book as his quest to the concept of business value. Is business value the same as customer value?
Design Hacks for Non-Designers: Ask Expert Laura Klein
Speaker: Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know and Author of UX for Lean Startups
We all have to make quick decisions about product interfaces, and there's not always a designer around when you need one. That doesn't mean that you're doomed to failure, though. Learn a few really common user experience design mistakes and how to avoid making them. Join UX designer and product management expert Laura Klein for a no-holds-barred Ask Me Anything session on UX design. Laura—principal of Users Know and author of Build Better Products and UX for Lean Startups—has over 20 years of experience helping companies innovate responsibly and improve their product development processes.
Are incremental and iterative the same phenomenon or not? (part 2)
Henny Portman
MARCH 20, 2020
MVP stands for minimum viable product (Eric Ries, Lean Startup) and is a version of a new product or service which. In the first part of this article ( see previous post ) I compared a waterfall and an agile approach when creating a payment app.
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FLEX, Flow for Enterprise Transformation
Henny Portman
JANUARY 2, 2020
It is designed around flow-thinking, Lean-thinking, the theory of constraints, and organizational development integrated with how people learn and change habits. The first post in 2020 is again a post about an agile framework. The forest is still growing and this will not be the last one.
Review Brave New Work
Henny Portman
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
Priming: When the invitation to think and work differently is offered (complexity, emergence, self-organization, organizational debt, agility, leanness, motivation, self-awareness, mastery, trust, generative difference, psychological safety, and more).
Review: Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery
Henny Portman
MARCH 15, 2019
DAD is characterized by the following aspects: Hybrid: combines Scrum, Agile Modelling, XP, Unified Process, Kanban, Lean, Outside-In Development (OID) and other methods. Scott W.
Review: An executive’s guide to disciplined agile
Henny Portman
APRIL 11, 2019
To stress the ability of being disciplined there are additional principles: master your craft, technical excellence, collaborate, measure wisely, transparency, lean continuously, purposeful experiments, deliver continuously, visualize workflow, whole team, stable team and trust and respect.
Bimodal Portfolio Management
Henny Portman
JUNE 26, 2019
Introduction. At the moment, many organizations are in the middle, or on the brink of, a radical change to more business agility. I receive quite often the question how to cope with both an agile portfolio as well as a more traditional portfolio with temporary projects and programs.
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Review: DevOps a business perspective
Henny Portman
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Definition DevOps: “ DevOps is an evolution of the ideas of agile software development and lean manufacturing, applied to the end-to-end value chain in IT, which allows businesses to achieve more with modern information technology due to cultural, organizational and technical changes ”.
Review: An Introduction to Evidence-Based Portfolio Management
Henny Portman
JUNE 3, 2019
Evidence-Based Portfolio Management is an approach that applies lean and agile principles to the challenge of deciding where to invest to derive the greatest business benefit. Scrum.org wrote the whitepaper An Introduction to Evidence-Based Portfolio Management.
Agendashift, a new tree in the agile forest
Henny Portman
OCTOBER 10, 2019
Elaborating (framing actions, testing our thinking: hypothesis-based change, Lean Startup, A3, Cynefin). Operation (change as real work: Lean Startup, Kanban, Scrum). I thought I now covered all agile ways of working but I failed (again). I found a new one. This time it’s Agendashift.
Review DARE
Henny Portman
MARCH 3, 2020
It explores the need for experimenting in ‘controlled’ spaces with a blended approach of design thinking, lean startup and an agile way of working.
What Is Lean Manufacturing?
ProjectManager.com
MAY 29, 2019
Lean manufacturing addresses one of the worst things that can happen to any enterprise: waste. This insistence on eliminating waste is where the idea of lean as a management system developed. An Overview of Lean Manufacturing. History of Lean Manufacturing.
Remote Lean Coffee
Growing Agile
APRIL 15, 2020
This morning we hosted a Lean Coffee session. It was my first time hosting a virtual lean coffee. If you’re planning a lean coffee soon, here is a tip for you: I tested a few tools, Trello was easy for me to use as a virtual board.
Lean Coffee Connection
Growing Agile
MAY 11, 2020
I’ve been enjoying Lean Coffee’s so much more since it switched to a virtual format. Last week I joined the SUGSA Johannesburg Lean Coffee. We, at Growing Agile, started hosting regular Lean Coffee sessions recently and it’s been amazing.
Agile Practices: How to Run a Lean Coffee
Project Bliss
MAY 16, 2019
The term Lean Coffee doesn’t sound like a productive meeting session. How is a Lean Coffee better than that? Read on and find out how a lean coffee is a different kind of meeting than anything you may have experienced. WHAT is a Lean Coffee? Why Hold a Lean Coffee?
Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding
Planview
JUNE 28, 2019
This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading part one first, “ What is Lean Portfolio Management ,” which you can find here . In this post, we’ll discuss a fundamental component of Lean portfolio management: funding.
What is Lean Six Sigma?
Project Health Check
OCTOBER 2, 2017
Lean Six Sigma, a management buzzword that seems to persist and many don't understand. Lean Six Sigma is an approach for Process Improvement Projects, combining many different conceptual tools depending on the situation. Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement
Lean/ Agile Adoption in IT Services
Digite
MAY 23, 2018
In my position within Digité, I have often interacted with senior leadership in these organizations about Lean/Agile adoption. Several quarters ago, I started a Lean/Agile transformation journey for an IT service provider with their Leadership team.
Lean Portfolio Management Operations: An Agile Approach
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. Lean More.
Lean Thinking and the Parable of the Underbrush
Leading Agile
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Lean Thinking starts with identifying customer-defined value, and proceeds from there by focusing on ways to maximize the delivery of that value. Take a fresh look at your process from a Lean point of view. Years ago we lived in Ohio.
What is Lean Project Management? | Video
Online PM Courses
MARCH 15, 2018
These days, every organization seems to be going Lean. So, what is Lean Project Management, and how does it relate to Agile Project Management? So, what is Lean Project Management? What is Lean Project Management? The post What is Lean Project Management?
Lean Climbing
Zen Project Management
JULY 23, 2015
As I was looking over the route for the climb (Kelso’s Ridge up Torrey’s Peak and a possible double with Gray’s Peak) I remembered an article I recently read on applying the principles of lean climbing to business ( here ). We plan on being lean on this climb. My current client seems to get lean. I think if I could take my clients on a climb, with each user story represented by a small rock in their backpack, they would soon realize the benefit of keeping it lean.
What Is Lean Project Management? It’s Origin, Principles & Benefits
ProProfs Project Management
DECEMBER 9, 2019
With that in mind – lean project methodology is a great example! . Taking a few pages out of the book of lean manufacturing, we’ll have a look at what lean project management is in the first place. About Lean Project Management. Origins of Lean Management.
Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!
Digite
JANUARY 7, 2018
This book comprehensively describes the underlying principles that create Flow and facilitate Lean Product Development processes, principles that have produced 5x to 10x improvements, even in mature processes. 31 pages, ET to read: 50 min, Published July 19th, 2012 by Lean-Kanban University).
Lean Change Management – 4 Years Later
Agile Coach
APRIL 19, 2018
A friend of mine asked me on twitter what my 3 main things I’ve learned teaching my Lean Change Agent workshops and what the main takeaways from attendees were. First, How Lean Change Agent Came to Be. how do we use agile, lean startup, and lean tools in change management? (or
Process Optimization in Project Management (3): Lean Project Management
Inloox
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
In the last blog post on process optimization in project management we introduced you to the 5-S framework, which is also very popular in Lean Management. Therefore, we will now deepen the topic Lean Project Management. Working Efficiently with Lean Project Management Getting project costs under control and optimizing communication with the customer: this is where Lean Project Management comes in. The basic principle of Lean Project Management is the following: ".
Process Optimization in Project Management (3): Lean Project Management
Inloox
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
In the last blog post on process optimization in project management we introduced you to the 5-S framework, which is also very popular in Lean Management. Therefore, we will now deepen the topic Lean Project Management. Working Efficiently with Lean Project Management Getting project costs under control and optimizing communication with the customer: this is where Lean Project Management comes in. The basic principle of Lean Project Management is the following: ".
What is Lean Portfolio Management? - Blog | Planview
Brook Appelbaum
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Learn why traditional portfolio management practices no longer works while also examining the advantages of Lean portfolio management practices
7 Proven Ways Lean Six Sigma Methodology Can Speed Up Your Business Growth
Taskque
JANUARY 22, 2020
This would not have happened if you have implemented lean six sigma or paid attention to improving the quality of the product. So what’s lean six sigma all about? What is Lean Six Sigma? Lean Six Sigma is a methodology used to minimize defects and errors and improve the process.
5 Ways Project Management and Lean Manufacturing Speed Up Processes
LiquidPlanner
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Lean manufacturing has become a popular way to eliminate waste, reduce costs and improve efficiencies. The challenge with lean is that, despite its attraction to many executives who want to cut costs and increase productivity , a lean process doesn’t happen overnight. Of course, this conversation goes against the point of lean—to eliminate unnecessary waste—yet it occurs frequently. The reality is that most lean programs fail as executives lose interest.
What Puts Manufacturing Teams Ahead: Lean Six Sigma
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?
Should Lean and Agile Organizations Limit Projects to Maximize Success?
Brad Egeland
JUNE 3, 2019
Organizations are constantly thinking of more efficient ways to operate in order to remain profitable, effective and even relevant in their industry.
How to Get Started with Lean Project Management
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.
Startups Should Lean on Lean Project Management
Wrike
AUGUST 6, 2014
Enter Lean project management. As a more recent PM methodology, the term “lean startup” is credited as first appearing on Eric Ries’ blog in 2008. The #1 priority of running Lean PM is to eliminate wasted resources , known as mura. Lean PM is not temporary!
How Retrospectives Led to Acceptance for Our Lean PPM Process
Meisterplan
OCTOBER 19, 2018
At Meisterplan, when we introduced Lean PPM , we simply integrated this element into the process. Want to find out how the Lean PPM approach can be integrated into your business? The post How Retrospectives Led to Acceptance for Our Lean PPM Process appeared first on Meisterplan.
Lean Portfolio Management w/ Tina Wang
Leading Agile
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
This week in LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, Tina Wang spends some time with Dave talking about Lean Portfolio Management. During the conversation, Tina and Dave cover exactly what Lean Portfolio Management is and how it differs from a more traditional approach to Portfolio Management.
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