Lean Process Project Cost Project Life Cycle 
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 19, 2024
Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. What Is Kanban?
The IIL Blog
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate. Burndown Chart A tool in Agile project management that tracks the work completed and the work remaining to help teams manage progress.
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Resource Guru
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
The project life cycle , just like a good story, has a beginning, a middle, and (hopefully) a happy end. The beginning involves the ever-so-important planning; then comes the middle, where teams complete various tasks to move the project closer to completion; and finally, an end to review what went well and what didn’t.
Resource Guru
JANUARY 17, 2023
Project scope is the project manager’s best friend. It’s what we lean on throughout the project life cycle. It keeps us on the straight and narrow all the way to project success. We might think that “oh, I don’t need a project scope, I’ve done thousands of projects like this!”.
Workamajig
JANUARY 11, 2021
This is usually in case of risks that are unlikely to occur or minor enough so as to not affect the project's outcome. Acceptance Criteria: A set of formal requirements that a project must pass before it can be accepted by the project sponsors. Approach Analysis is used during the Planning phase of each project.
Herding Cats
MAY 10, 2019
Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N., Michael, International Journal of Project Management , 19, pp. 3, March 2002.
Herding Cats
MAY 11, 2019
Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Michael, International Journal of Project Management , 19, pp. 24, 2010.
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