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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

It traces its roots to Lean, which is also foundational to other modern management theories. Lean’s primary focus is delivering value quickly and eliminating waste. Toyota was a Lean pioneer. Lean is a set of principles. The “House of Lean” is often used as a metaphor. Value Value is the roof of our House of Lean.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a not-for-profit membership association, project management certification and standards organization. It does require strict scrum roles however.

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

John Estrella John Estrella With the release of the Agile Practice Guide along with the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition , we can’t ignore PMI’s direction to incorporate adaptive life cycles such as agile , iterative or incremental life cycles into project and development life cycles. XP, scrum, lean, etc.)

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. Two Lean-Agile Types. Iteration-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based.

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10 Project Management Certifications | Upgrade Career Skills

Agilemania

PMI’s Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is incredibly popular and widely pursued by IT professionals of all types, making it an incredibly valuable merit badge. Due to its enhanced and expanded value, it is much more valuable than any other kind of technical credential. SAFe® Lean Portfolio.

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The Low Code No Code Opportunity

The Strategic Project Manager

There is barely an overlap between those with the business skills vs those with technical skills. Depicted in the graphic above, the area of expanding overlap between the business and technology functions is where digital development can expand. PMI Perspective on the Low Code No Code Opportunity.

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The Perfect Storm for The Project Economy

Leading Answers

These three trends are: 1) Accelerating rates of technology adoption. This increase in project demand was christened  The Project Economy  by PMI in 2019. Eric Ries documented his lean startup methodology in 2008 as a way for organizations to adapt and experiment with new ideas and perform market tests.