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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

It traces its roots to Lean, which is also foundational to other modern management theories. Lean’s primary focus is delivering value quickly and eliminating waste. Toyota was a Lean pioneer. Lean is a set of principles. The “House of Lean” is often used as a metaphor. Value Value is the roof of our House of Lean.

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Servant Leadership in PMO Management: A Path to Success

The IIL Blog

We’ve taken many different and evolving approaches to driving lean into our processes. Our team leans into this philosophy, strives to innovate, and reduce waste, while delivering more value to business partners of the PMO team. Jeff has been a member of the PMI Global Executive Council since 2014.

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2018 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want To Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This year’s RICS project management conference has the theme ‘Remaining Lean and Agile in a Changing Work Environment’ I’m not sure if they are partnering with the APM as in previous years but the agenda is already up on the site and looks interesting. PMI Sweden Passion of Projects: Gothenburg, Sweden 12-13 March 2018.

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Top Project Management Conferences to Attend in 2016

Wrike

2016 is brand new, and now that you’ve started a fresh calendar, you’re probably eager to find exciting events to fill it with. Look no further than our list of top project management conferences for 2016. These in-depth seminars hosted by PMI help both novice and experienced project managers advance their careers.

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5 Steps to Finding the Path to Business Agility

International Institute for Learning

When used alongside knowledgeable industry guides or Tactec coaches, these patterns result in what we call lean agile acceleration. We must walk the path to lean agility. At Tactec, we use a lean change approach to implement a program of minimum viable change. However, knowing the path is not enough.

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Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

Step 3: Build the Kanban Board Kanban is a lean inventory management tool originally developed by Toyota and broadly adopted by most agile teams. Alan Zucker, PMP, PMI-ACP Founding Principal Project Management Essentials Alan Zucker has over 25 years of experience leading projects and project management organizations in Fortune 100 companies.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. Full SAFe extends the framework to Large Solutions that require coordinating many ARTs and implementing Lean Portfolio Management. Implementing SAFe begins with training the change agents and executives in the lean-agile mindset and SAFe practices.

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