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What Is Lean Portfolio Management? A Quick Guide

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Having many projects to manage in a portfolio can be daunting. There are many ways to do this and one of which is lean portfolio management. Let’s first define lean portfolio management and then delve into how it works. This will give you an idea if it’s the right strategy to execute your portfolio management.

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Lean Startup and Scrum

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I remember the first time I heard about Lean Startup. A member of the audience asked, “What do you think about Lean Startup?”. Honestly, I had not heard of Lean Startup. After the conference, I bought Eric Ries’s book - Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses.

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What Is Aggregate Planning? Strategies & Tips

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Let’s take a look at what aggregate production planning is and some aggregate planning strategies. Aggregate planning is most often focused on targeted sales forecasts, inventory management and production levels in the mid-term (3-to-18-month) future. Resource Management. 3 Types of Aggregate Planning Strategies.

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Risk Mitigation: Agile Usable Products vs Documentation in Traditional Project Management

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As the software development landscape evolves, evaluating the time-tested traditional project management strategies alongside the burgeoning agile methodologies is essential. TL;DR: Agile's emphasis on incremental development with working software mitigates risks efficiently by validating real-world use early and continuously.

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Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile: Strategies for Success

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As the Agile project management framework reaches adoption maturity at lean, progressive and disruptive startup firms, many teams at established organizations are struggling to fully embrace the Agile project management framework at scale. Managers don’t dictate task activities, but share project expectations.

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Production Capacity: Formula, Examples

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In order to take advantage of production capacity’s help with making sound financial plans and accurately forecasting business growth, you’ll need project management software. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that helps manufacturers identify and map out resource usage.

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5 Strategies for Product Backlog refinement

Scrum.org

Refinement is simply the ongoing activity of having these conversations and thus an essential product management activity. This gives the Product Backlog a level of transparency that reduces the risk. That is why refinement is an essential Product Management activity that successful Scrum Teams need to master. .