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Making your Scrum Events Lean – Identifying the Wastes

Scrum.org

The new Scrum Guide 2020 mentions Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking. Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.”. While Scrum Events remove the need for any other meeting, at times unintended wastes get injected in those events. Defects: Are we sharing meaningful information?

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Streamlining Success: Lean Principles in Project Management

MPUG

First, our last article touched on waste in the context of lean. Second, I am the father of a recent engineering graduate who is now working as an engineer, and part of the onboarding was a class on lean. We show some examples other than software in our Scrum Project Management book. This is where Lean principles come into play.

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Sprint Retrospectives with Kanban

Scrum.org

A few weeks ago we considered the Agile Manifesto from a lean perspective. We saw that it is possible to map the 12 agile principles to the 7 canonical “Lean Wastes” in terms of a mitigation approach. Inspection and adaptation is fundamental to both agile and lean practice. . .

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From Order Taker to Opportunity Maker…IT’s Digital Transition for Driving the Business

Leading Agile

Professions such as Medicine, Law, Beauty, Teaching, Transportation, Security, Accounting, Engineering, and Project Management all have one thing in common; certifications and internal governance. Think of all the breakthrough advancements in just the last 20 years in the medicine, transportation, accounting, and engineering professions.

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Three tips for great Product Ownership

Scrum.org

Whether you’re a politician, giving a speech; a marketeer designing the next advertisement; or a Product Owner, transporting your vision…. To get closer in touch with your customer you might utilize canvases in combination with Design Thinking and Lean Startup approaches to ideation. . Scrum on! What the product can do.

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11 Tips for Value Stream Identification

Agilemania

Value stream identification is a crucial step in the Lean process. This is why many organizations use the lean methodology. Identifying any possible efficiencies or setbacks in the system can be aided by listing each person responsible for transporting material from one strategy phase to another. Scrum Master.

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Newbies’ Guide to Scrum Project Management 101

nTask

Scrum” is a phenomenal subject – i.e. if you are familiar with it. As an Agile project manager, I have seen my fair share of so-called “Scrum Masters” and “Agile Experts” claiming to be masters of their craft. The truth, however, is that they don’t know a lot of things about Scrum and Agile. Introduction – Why Scrum?

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