Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2020

. Lean Coffee Poster The premise of Lean Coffee is relatively straight forwarded. Lean Coffee increases the engagement level significantly among the participants. In the early days of Lean Coffee, the choice of beverage was often coffee and the tool itself is also referent to Personal Kanban.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Agile Frameworks as a Starting Point Agile frameworks offer a way to navigate these challenges. Patterns Over Prescriptions Rather than enforcing a fixed set of rules, effective Agile frameworks offer patterns flexible building blocks that help teams address challenges in their own way. Take the Daily Scrum, for example.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

Learn more History of Kanban Kanban was first introduced in Japan as a lean manufacturing approach pioneered by Taiichi Ohno in the late 1940s. The book laid out the principles of lean manufacturing, which focuses on reducing waste, creating customer value and seeking continuous process improvement, and kanban.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 8, 2024

Identify and Integrate Complementary Practices: Based on team feedback and project requirements, introduce practices that support and enhance the Scrum framework, such as Kanban boards for visual management or Lean techniques for waste reduction. Implement these in your next Sprint, ready to inspect and adapt them as you gather more insights.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The result of this buzz session was, of course, the Agile ‘Software Development’ Manifesto. In the published history of the meeting, they claim to have sought consensus, and that they tried to reach a position they could all agree on. To what extent, for example, is the Manifesto a reflex of “lean thinking”? This is inevitable.

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Scrum.org

JULY 16, 2019

Lean Agile Procurement is designed to reduce delay in establishing the partnerships, and providing clear constraints on the business relationship. The traditional approach of RFI – RFP – Review – LOI is neither lean or agile. Aligned to the Agile Manifesto. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

UX designers focus on understanding users' needs, preferences, and pain points to design solutions that meet those requirements and expectations. Lean UX Lean UX is a user-centric and iterative approach to product development that combines the principles of Lean Startup, Agile development, and user experience design.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 3, 2021

Why perfect is the enemy of good - using lean change to apply agile in context. At Fractal Systems we strive to educate our clients and the project teams that we partner with about the importance of applying Agile in context. Don’t run before you can walk.

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Scrum.org

JULY 5, 2022

TL; DR: HoA #42: Lean Roadmapping and OKRs w/ Janna Bastow. In this energizing 42nd Hands-on Agile session on Lean Roadmapping, Janna Bastow, the go-to-authority on product roadmaps, talked about being lean while creating and maintaining your roadmap and how objectives and key results (OKR) may help meet that challenge. ??

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Henny Portman

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The book “ The Lean-Agile Way – Unleash Business Results in the Digital Era with Value Stream Management ” by Cecil ‘Gary’ Rupp, Richard Knaster, Steve Pereira, and Al Shalloway provides a comprehensive roadmap to optimize processes, improve products, and enhance service delivery.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Agile Project Management On the other end of the project management style spectrum is agile. Some don’t refer to agile as a project management style as much as a mindset to face uncertainty, give possible solutions a chance, get feedback and always adjust accordingly.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. 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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ProjectManager.com

MAY 1, 2024

The kanban methodology was first developed as a lean manufacturing system to help with production planning , scheduling and control. Make process policies explicit and share them with your team, preferably during meetings when you can address their questions, comments or concerns. What Are the Benefits of Kanban?

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Software Review Manufacturing Lean Development Team Review 459

Scrum.org

MARCH 17, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile, Part 1: Practices & Tools for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Owners. Agile has always been about colocation, about direct communication, physical boards, and all the other haptic and analog moments to create value in the digital realm. Moreover, admittedly, I love index cards. General Tips.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 9, 2020

Lean Coffee is a powerful meeting faciliation technique that can be used in coffee shops, conferences, open space, scrum events or simply replace existing corporate meeting formats. Lean Coffee is easy to learn, empowers participants and increases engagement. It is also fun!

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Scrum.org

MARCH 9, 2025

For Organizations: Implement Dual-Track Agile: Formalize the separation between discovery and delivery tracks while ensuring they inform each other continuously. Adopt Strategic Alignment Tools: Choose appropriate tools based on your context: For startups or new initiatives: Lean Canvas and Now-Next-Later Roadmap.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2024

Kanban in manufacturing and production has many uses, which we detail below, as well as how it relates to lean and just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing. It’s a flexible scheduling system that can be applied to manufacturing, agile, DevOps and virtually any repeatable process. This keeps a minimum of inventory on hand to meet demand.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

” Mr. Harned founded the Digital PM Summit as a place for digital project management professionals across industries to meet once a year to discuss big ideas and developments relevant to the project management world. He writes consistently on his blog about software development and lean, Kanban and agile development principles.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

It’s a lot to read, so here are some spoilers drawn from common themes I heard time and time again in the interviews: Agile : if you don’t know enough about it, you need to start learning. It can serve as a baseline, but most project managers ought to layer some sort of agile certification on top of it. Find her on Twitter.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Agile A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects in an iterative way with short bursts of work called “sprints” Though initially designed as a process for IT and engineering projects, it has since been successfully applied to other industries like marketing.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This is where agility comes into play and is on everyone’s lips these days. The Agile Manifesto will soon be 20 years old, and Scrum was first introduced 25 years ago. Yet, many people and companies still struggle to increase their agility. Agile teams are likely to face change during the development of a solution.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 31, 2023

Sitting at lunch during Agile 2023, I felt deja vu. I have attended many Agile conferences. At Agile 2023, I did not feel that. The challenges they discussed could be traced to classic business change management issues rather than anything unique to agility. My first was in Chicago in 2009.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2025

At a recent Professional Scrum Master Advanced course, we were discussing how to promote engagement at the Daily Scrum when Mark Kuzik , lean champion and Director at Argus Machine in Canada suggested shaking things up by trying Management by Exception at the Daily Scrum. Are we on track to meet the Sprint Goal? And that's it!

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 28, 2022

Kanban is a visual workflow tool that, while originally used as a Toyota scheduling system, is now associated with in an agile methodology, especially in DevOps software development. The goal of lean kanban is to start with no limits and monitor the WIP. But it also helps to meet daily with the team to get a feedback loop going.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

Teams learn through experience, reflective meetings and specific roles that add structure and manage work. Scrumban: An Agile Hybrid. Scrumban is part of an agile framework, a hybrid of scrum and kanban. It’s visual and there’s only one planning meeting. Then there’s kanban. Independence.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 27, 2020

In a software development project, many of these tools are mature, reliable and provide a great feature set that pretty much fulfills the needs of agile teams one way or the other. Agile transformations around the world are also impacted as the tools needed are very different. How is your audience (coaches, leaders, managers, etc.)

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Accidental PM

MARCH 30, 2025

Agile, Scrum, and traditional project management methods each offer unique benefits depending on the nature of the project and the industry. Understanding the Project Management Approaches Agile Methodology Agile is a flexible, iterative project management approach emphasizing adaptability and collaboration.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In this video, we explore the evolving landscape of Agile and examine why traditional frameworks may fall short in complex, large-scale organizations. Our discussion highlights the importance of stable teams, clear backlogs, and tested products—”The 3 Things”—as foundational for Agile success. Where are we at? Yeah, 2001.

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Project Bliss

MAY 10, 2017

Everybody’s talking about agile software development these days: project managers, software developers, IT directors, small startups and big corporations. What is Agile Software Development? Agile software development is an approach that promotes delivering value quickly to the customer. Agile Principles.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Agile 191

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Earned Value Analysis Dashboards Road Maps Lean Concepts – Kanban Agile Concepts – Scrum Infographics. Mind Mapping Process Mapping Storyboarding Root Cause Analysis Charting, Diagramming and Graphing Drawing and Sketching Wireframes Use Cases and user stories. Category #2. Visual Project Reporting Tools. Category #3.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Agile isn’t the right fit for every business problem–it’s simply a tool in the toolkit–one of many. . Agile frameworks should be used to solve business problems in complex environments where more is known than known. What is Agile? When is Agile the right fit? There are many flavors of Agile.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

To obtain it, project managers must meet qualifications such as 35-60 months of project management experience, 35 hours of project management education and complete a 180 questions certification exam. Implement and manage change when necessary to meet project outputs. Lead meetings and set expectations for project team.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 15, 2022

In this energizing 43rd Hands-on Agile session on outcome-based product planning, Jeff Gothelf clarified one thing: “Roadmapping is a flawed concept in the age of Agile. Watch the video now: Jeff Gothelf: Outcome-Based Product Planning — Hands-on Agile 43. ?? Roadmapping is a flawed concept in the age of Agile.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Some organizations, such as the Project Management Institute (PMI), will ask you to meet some requirements to be allowed in the program, such as having a bachelor’s degree, months of project management experience or even another project management certification. Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP). CompTIA Project+ Certification.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 17, 2024

And agile (26%) use fell by 2 percentage points. Before we get too excited, the State of Agile Report shows different trends. Its respondents favor agile (70%) over hybrid (47%), and waterfall (35%). Most organizations do not practice either pure agile or waterfall; so hybrid is a more accurate description. Lean/Kanban.

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2020

We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. We had a look at common remote agile anti-patterns; we analyzed remote Retrospectives, Sprint Plannings as well as remote Sprint Reviews based on Liberating Structures.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 3, 2020

But it also has a Gantt chart timeline for lean visual management and task dependencies. Users have complained that the features could use refining, such as chat, notification manager and meeting manager. Targetprocess is a visual platform that is suited for working within an agile framework. Targetprocess.

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