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Product Manager vs Project Manager – What’s the Difference?

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For example, many project managers are accustomed to working within the PMI guidelines for best project management practices. Whereas product managers might rely on agile product development, lean manufacturing processes or lean software development methodologies. What Is a Project Manager? Develop a project plan.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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So for the sake of argument, let’s compare them head to head, and may the best project management methodology win! 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. What Is Kanban? What Is Scrum?

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How to Write a Business Case

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In fact, in some lean or agile organizations, over-reliance on documentation is seen as a clear impediment to innovation and collaboration. Projects fail without having a solid business case to rest on. Create a Schedule: Make a timeline for the project by estimating how long it will take to get each task completed.

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Free project management certifications

Moira Alexander

Related Video. Intermediate project management courses. Evidence-Based Project Management - a self-paced course that covers which project management strategies, tools and techniques are most effective by analyzing evidence-based research. The course also includes a project management case study.

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Project Management Life Cycle-Iterative & Adaptive

iZenBridge

First of all we shall look at what is a Predictive Life Cycle according to the PMBOK® Guide Sixth Edition : “ Predictive Life Cycle: A form of project life cycle in which the project scope, time, and cost are determined in the early phases of the life cycle.”.

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Building and Managing A Hybrid-Agile Plan with MS Project

MPUG

While Scrum and Kanban are two frequently used, individual Lean-Agile frameworks, many management practitioners use Hybrid-Agile approaches. When a combination of predictive, iterative, incremental, and/or Agile approaches are applied to projects, we see what we call a “hybrid” approach. This is explained further in my upcoming video.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The reason for this surge in popularity is quite understandable, the majority of projects benefit when managed using lean concepts promoted by Agile project management methodology. The idea was to find a better way to manage projects in the software industry and get a better handle on schedule and cost overruns.

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