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Small business tips for managing projects with a lean team

LiquidPlanner

You don’t need a formal project management office (PMO) to understand your resource capacity. Lean teams must collaborate well and trust each other. The post Small business tips for managing projects with a lean team appeared first on LiquidPlanner. Let today’s specialized technology solutions do the heavy lifting.

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The PMO Roadmap for Driving Business Agility

Planview

Portfolio Management Offices are in a prime position to deliver this business agility – with the right PMO roadmap. Peter, who wrote the book The Lazy Project Manager , drew upon his 30 years of experience building and leading PMOs to provide some guideposts. Can you go over Lean versus Agile? But keep it as Lean as possible.”.

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How to Develop Your Personal Project Management Philosophy

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Agile , lean, predictive methods, iterative approaches – and the guidance from professional bodies like APM, PMI, and the Standard for Project Management now all includes content on values, and soft skills that underpin how we work. Here are four tips. Tips for creating your own project management philosophy. Define your values.

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How to Fix 5 Project Management Skills Gaps

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Below are 5 of the areas where I know people struggle with skills, and a couple of tips about how you can improve in those areas. Again, lean on the team to put together estimates that are reliable: working with the correct numbers makes everything easier and helps you avoid common scheduling mistakes !

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The 18 Most Influential People in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Lindsay Scott is the director of Manchester, UK-based PMO Learning Limited which is dedicated to helping PMO professionals get the most out of their careers with training and organizational development opportunities. He writes consistently on his blog about software development and lean, Kanban and agile development principles.

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’m sure you take away tips and ideas for making this your best year yet managing projects at work. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) Second, the use of lean and agile tools and methodologies beyond IT, software and manufacturing. Visual, lean tools that truly engage all team members are going to become essential.

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5 Ways to Become Agile: A Summary

Planview

Throughout this series, we’ve discussed the five ways to become agile, addressed the primary issues and roadblocks, as well as the critical steps required to transform the PMO, all based on the whitepaper, The Agile PMO: 5 Steps to Driving Agility at Scale. Part 1: Driving Agile at Scale: The Agile PMO. This must change.

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