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Maximizing Business Outcomes at a Sustainable Pace - A Culinary Analogy

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Just as your body needs time to process a meal, your team needs time to absorb and execute their tasks effectively. By finding a balance, we can avoid the pitfalls of burnout and foster a more sustainable work environment. This approach is not about lowering standards but enhancing adaptability and maintaining long-term efficiency.

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Process Implementation: A Quick Guide

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As a business grows, it needs to look at new processes or ways to improve the processes it has in place. Maybe the company wants to scale and sustain its growth or increase productivity and efficiency. Whatever the objectives, process implementation is how they achieve these goals. What Is Process Implementation?

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Agile Principles – Sustainable Pace

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This time we are focussing on the following Agile principle – “Agile processes promote sustainable development. Agile approaches like Scrum have long promoted the importance of working at a sustainable pace. He is on record describing a sustained 80-hour week as the norm for those seeking to “change the world”.

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The Velociteach Guide to Delivering Sustainable Projects

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By their very nature, certain projects scream sustainability ! Other projects may not have such lofty goals; however, those who lead the project teams should deliver sustainable outcomes. Sustainability in project management is no longer a choice but a necessity.

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Agile Project Management: Principles, Meetings, Values & Tools

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By using incremental steps towards completing a project, agile teams can easily adjust their project plan or product development plan to better meet their customer requirements. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. First, that the individual is more important than the process; second. Daily Standup Meetings.

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10 Top Process Improvement Tools You Need to Create a More Sustainable Business

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A study by BCG/MIT finds that 90% of executives deem sustainability to be important, yet only 60% of companies incorporate sustainability as part of their business strategy, and even less (25%) integrate sustainability into the core of their business model. Implement effective process improvement techniques for sustainability.

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The Peril of Adhering to Legacy Systems, Processes, and Practices

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TL; DR: Adherence to Legacy Systems, Processes, and Practices Administrative overreach and micromanagement in Scrum mainly arise from clinging to legacy systems and traditional (management) practices, leading to rigidity and misapplication of Agile principles. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available !

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