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Building Agile Partnerships - Lean Agile Procurement

Scrum.org

Lean Agile Procurement is designed to reduce delay in establishing the partnerships, and providing clear constraints on the business relationship. The traditional approach of RFI – RFP – Review – LOI is neither lean or agile. This often creates a protracted and unpredictable process from the supplier and purchaser.

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Lean Change Management – 4 Years Later

Agile Coach

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. What my lessons have been after traveling the world and delivering over 50 of these workshops. First, How Lean Change Agent Came to Be. F-bombs and all.

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A Facilitator as an (Event) Value Maximiser 

Scrum.org

Throughout this blog, I use a variety of terms such as meeting, event, and workshop ostensibly as synonyms. Whilst this is a Professional Scrum leaning piece, facilitation is not an art solely associated with Scrum, and therefore the language I use isn’t either. Plan the workshop activities based on the purpose. .

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

Excessive Planning and Control : The illusion of control among managers results in a tendency to over-plan and control every aspect of the development process. Exercise Empirical Process Control : In your Retrospectives, identify instances where the feature factory mindset prevailed.

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Webinar Recap: SIPOC Workshop Facilitation – Part 1: Overview of SIPOC and Systems

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Jeff Bongiovani’s session, SIPOC Workshop Facilitation – Part 1, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Welcome to part one of MPUGs training course, SIPOC Workshop Facilitation. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations.

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How safe was that meeting or workshop you were just in?

Lynne Cazaly

Every time we're invited to a meeting or to participate in a workshop or conversation we're either a participant or the convener/leader/facilitator of the session. That workshop, meeting, planning session or conversation you most recently attended - or led - may not have been that 'safe'. and how it will be received.

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Where does Scrum Master END and Agile Leader BEGIN? Differences/similarities

Scrum.org

They should be well versed on product management, design, other agile and lean agile approaches. Scrum.org offers a scrum with Kanban workshop and scrum with UX workshop as well. If you are doing some other kind of Lean Agile, you might be using Kaizen, where you agree to continually improve or continuously improve.

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