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Good Scrum Master; Bad Scrum Master

Scrum.org

This post (inspired by Ben Horowitz author of “The hard things about hard things”) is for scrum masters, and people who work with scrum masters, and explores what good and bad looks like. They are responsible for the successful implementation of Scrum within their team and their organisation.

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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. It dramatically decreased the cost of rework by building quality into every process step. Lean is a set of principles.

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Develop Better High Performing Teams

ProjectManager.com

As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. All these efforts require precise judgment to hire just-in-time talent, using data to make strategic project decisions at a portfolio, program and project level and launching new high performing teams.

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Cost of Quality (COQ): A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

But we’ll also discuss the cost of good quality vs. the cost of poor quality and show you how to measure COQ. It’s also part of Lean Six Sigma, a philosophy of improvement built on the prevention of defects over defect detection. Cost of quality (COQ) helps you avoid neglecting quality and boost customer satisfaction.

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A Quick Guide to Business Process Mapping

ProjectManager.com

That guide is called business process mapping. An Overview of Business Process Mapping. Business process mapping means defining what a business does, who is responsible for what, what is the standard for completing that process, what tools will be used and how the success of the business is determined.

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Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding

Planview

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. This is where Lean budgeting comes in.

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Ad Hoc Project Management: The Art of Chaos and Confusion

MPUG

We recommend selecting the processes and artifacts best suited to your project’s circumstances, constraints, and risks. There is a pretense of planning or control, with documents, artifacts, and processes at the would-be project manager’s disposal. Ad hoc is a degradation further. Random number in, random number out.