NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Elizabeth is also a prolific author, having published seven books on project and change management. Her book, Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World , was shortlisted for the prestigious Management Book of the Year Award in 2014, further cementing her status as an influential voice in the field.

Influencer 111

Influencer 2025 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 111

Digite

JANUARY 7, 2018

Irrespective of where you are in your Kanban journey, here is a comprehensive list of the top Kanban books that will help you with knowledge, insights and experience related to Kanban and ensures an empowered journey towards achieving your business goals. We highly recommend the following 10 books to all Kanban practitioners and students.

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Lean Software Review 2010 2014 79

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. He is author of 13 best-selling books, including four about project management. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) Second, the use of lean and agile tools and methodologies beyond IT, software and manufacturing.

2018 331

2018 Artificial Inteligence Consulting Underperforming Technical Team 331

Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 29, 2021

Checks and balances are required but these should be done in the spirit of lean governance rather than of micromanagement. If you liked this article, why not pick up my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership?

Governance 207

Governance Government Lean Leadership 207

Scrum.org

APRIL 8, 2021

Governments, businesses and NGOs have aspirational goals. Pink, 2011, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Riverhead Books). Business Strategy / Lean Canvas. Grand ideas, visions are everywhere. The overarching purpose and its instances of it throughout the onion is the glue, which affords autonomy.

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2007 2011 Risk Management 2020 230

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Join me as I explore the potential of a custom GPT based on my Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book in cutting through the maze of Scrum challenges. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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SCRUM ChatGPT Technical Review Development Team Review 225

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Mike Cohn came out with the Agile Estimating and Planning book and really put some structure and discipline around how we’re going to break down user stories, how we’re going to measure velocity, how we’re going to do release planning, such like that. We started applying lean theory of constraints kind of things.

Agile 118

Agile 2001 SCRUM Technical Review 118

Agile Coach

APRIL 19, 2018

A friend of mine asked me on twitter what my 3 main things I’ve learned teaching my Lean Change Agent workshops and what the main takeaways from attendees were. First, How Lean Change Agent Came to Be. peaked at #6444 out of 8,000,000 books on Amazon, #198 in Leadership and Management. How this Post is Constructed.

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Lean Change Management 2014 Influencer 60

Project Accelerator News

JULY 12, 2024

Enhances problem-solving and decision-making – blame-free teams focus on solutions Encourages diversity of perspectives (people are more forthcoming with ideas) Improves project outcomes, continuity and success Encourages accountability without fear Strong Pmo, Robust Governance, A Fit for Purpose Portfolio Platform and Fully Resourced Projects.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review PMO 2024 Governance 52

Henny Portman

APRIL 26, 2022

There are not that many books on agile portfolio management, so I am curious what the book Agile Portfolio Management – A guide to the methodology and its successful implementation “knowledge that sets you apart” written by Klaus Nielsen, offers. I have no clue and what this says about the quality of the book? I miss structure.

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Agile Lean Prince2 Risk Management 116

Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2019

Consistency Between Lean and Agile Principles. Without coming at the question from that angle (as far as I know), the authors of the Manifesto arrived at an idea from Lean Thinking – the idea of reducing process waste. General principles in Lean Thinking are: Define value. What’s Value? What’s perfection?

Software Review 125

Software Review Lean Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 125

Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The book is divided into four sections. In the third section we get an overview of some routine meetings like the daily scrum, demos, governance meetings and teleconferences. Conclusion.

Software Review 93

Software Review Process Lean Cadence 93

Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

It is possible to do Scrum by the book and not create the results. Implementing Scrum or XP or Lean Startup on top of a tightly coupled legacy mainframe system is a recipe for disaster. The governance model? Governance and control. Dependencies and governance. Dependencies and governance are a reality.

Agile 133

Agile Governance Government Underperforming Technical Team 133

Kiron Bondale

JULY 3, 2022

Once that leaning out has been done, the second is to monitor the project manager’s administrative effort and provide them with support once it exceeds a reasonable threshold. (If If you liked this article, why not read my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership? (If

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Lean PMI Risk Management Leadership 194

Planview

APRIL 16, 2021

This archetype is more concerned with command and control of governance and methodologies than achieving relevant business outcomes. OKRs are about “figuring out what really matters and getting that done in a time-bound, efficient manner so that it all improves performance” (in the context of Lean). PMOs vary widely.

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PMO Development Team Review Governance Government 99

Henny Portman

APRIL 3, 2020

The 10X Growth Machine – How companies can innovate, scale and win , written by Misha de Sterke, is a book to build your own growth machine by using innovation as a means. Growth governance : Lean innovation process and venture boards, growth policy playbook, and growth accounting. Creative destruction is accelerating.

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Innovation Lean Governance Government 76

Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2023

Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! While the core data sources might be similar, such as books, articles, and websites, the data sets themselves would not be identical across these models. It defines the quality standard any Increment is expected to meet by stakeholders and governance bodies.

ChatGPT 172

ChatGPT SCRUM Technical Review 2020 172

nTask

MAY 3, 2019

CompTIA Project+ mostly has to deal with aggregating feedback from respondents, government representatives and research institutes. Moreover, a majority of these certifications are based on closed book policies. According to experts, 25 out of those 200 questions are spontaneous. Where to Start with Project Management Certifications.

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Certification 2019 PMI Technical Review 159

Henny Portman

APRIL 11, 2019

The book An executive’s guide to disciplined agile – Winning the race to business agility written by Scott W. DA consists of four parts (and are covered in chapters 3-6, the main part of the book): Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). DAIT addresses how to apply agile and lean strategies to all aspects of IT. Disciplined DevOps.

Technical Review 59

Technical Review Agile Lean Construction 59

The Strategic Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This applies regardless of the type of organization – small, medium, or large company; startup; government entity; or non-profit. Lean innovation management originated from startups, but is applicable in helping bring a startup mentality to a variety of types of organizations. Let’s start be defining lean innovation.

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Lean Innovation Process Sustainability 52

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Upon further study of where the work for each team(member) came from, what I found was a still-running Lean improvement program, several projects both inside and outside of the scope of two programs, and Scrum, via a set of Product Owners. And a few months later, I started reading Annie Duke's book 'Thinking in Bets'. It puzzled me.

2019 106

2019 Controlling SCRUM Lean 106

Binfire

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

The other day I was reading an article in which the author argues , in order for the government agencies to become more efficient, they need to transition to the Agile method! For the government agencies to get efficient, they need to embrace Agile methodology. . 7- Lean development. Another for booking conferences.

Software Review 87

Software Review Agile Software Technical Review 87

Henny Portman

MARCH 15, 2019

ambler and Mark Lines are the creators of the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework and the authors of the book Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery – a small Agile Team’s journey from Scrum to Disciplined DevOps ( 2 nd edition). The core of the book is a case study. Full delivery cycle.

Technical Review 53

Technical Review Agile Lean Cadence 53

The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In 1991 the book Rapid Application Development was published and an approach of the same name, RAD, was born. In 1994 the Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM) was created as project managers using RAD strived for increased governance and discipline when using an iterative style of managing projects.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Development Team Review 88

The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

As governments and organisations began to utilise IT to run their organisations, the concepts of ‘services’ began to evolve. ITIL was partly in response to the UK government’s desire to standardise how we deliver IT services and became the de-facto approach to what became known as ITSM.

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2001 2007 Information Technology 2005 78

LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

So much of what you might have read about online or in project management books, or even be taught on training courses, is simply not aligned the skills we need to use every day. But I think it’s more likely to be that business systems today are far more integrated, lean and systemized than ever before. Verdict: The jury is still out!

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Governance Government Influencer Lean 588

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Companies, governments, and such have always had a keen interest in squeezing as much work out of people as possible; you know, for building railroads , for agricultural work , and other things. I’m sure they are obvious to you, as well: Lean 5S. They didn’t buy it. I should explain. Viking Berserkers.

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Lean Software Review Manufacturing Governance 74

International Institute for Learning

AUGUST 1, 2022

Have you ever read a really good book where the author did a great job of describing the main character and you immediately connected with the storyline? Here are two examples of task-oriented items I see on many resumes, with out storytelling: “Developed a governance model for this project.”. It invokes emotion.

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Retail Governance Government 2021 105

Digite

JUNE 28, 2017

Based on the announcement made there by Lean Kanban, Inc. The Kanban Method – defined in detail in the famous Kanban ‘Blue Book’ – provided the foundational principles and practices of much of the method as it exists even today. As a result of the collaboration between Digité and Lean Kanban, Inc.,

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2015 2014 Lean 2013 60

Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

In his book titled “Applying Artificial Intelligence to Project Management”, Canadian professor Paul Boudreau warns readers not to be confused and misled by the popular term of artificial intelligence. Moreover, we’re subsidized by the Dutch government to research artificial intelligence in project management. AI Forecast.

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Artificial Inteligence 2020 Technical Review 2019 77

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Anything in your team structure, delivery pipeline, or governance procedures that introduces a “speed bump” to software delivery may be reconsidered. This corresponds in a general way with the Lean notion of focusing on flow. Among other things, this requires a certain degree of smoothness in software delivery.

Software Development 84

Software Development Software Developers Artificial Inteligence Construction 84

Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

And so, I built a relationship with this dev director that I was working with and he and I would collaborate and I was reading books and you know, reading all the Kent Beck stuff, [unsure 03:48]. But what they’re really doing was like scrum with technical practices and things like that, I ever more aligned, it felt like to me was Scrum.

Agile 143

Agile Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Influencer 143

Planio

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Step 1: Gather input on your idea from stakeholders As you begin scoping out your new initiative, lean on those around you for input. Rob also notices that his country offers a government-led scheme to subsidize the costs of ChromeOS devices for students. What may seem like a good idea to you may not resonate with others.

Initiating 78

Initiating Finance Lean Risk Management 78

International Institute for Learning

MAY 24, 2023

The authors discuss the shortcomings of the waterfall approach in terms of project type, performance tracking, risk management, and governance. Dr. Kerzner is the author of bestselling books and texts, including the acclaimed Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Thirteenth Edition.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Agile 2009 Certification 52

MPUG

JANUARY 16, 2023

The book defines a performance domain as “critical for the effective delivery of project outcomes.” Everything you do as a project manager involves leaning into the domains to a greater or lesser extent, as you keep all the project’s balls in the air. In other words, something you must focus on.

Planning 69

Planning Lean PMI Risk Management 69

Wrike

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

When a new city or town is formed, a charter is written to define its organization and governing body along with its basic powers, procedures, and functions. Just like James Bond leans on his license to kill when he’s out in the field, the charter serves as a PM’s license to do what needs to be done in service of the project.

Defining 74

Defining Executing Budget Risk Management 74

Leading Agile

MAY 16, 2023

They were exploring the idea of Lean applied to the software development process, how to operate in smaller batches, how to continuously focus on quality, how to continuously get feedback. We have to get the governance and metrics right. Okay, and there’s a book I’m reading, and I apologize as it just came to mind.

Engineering 71

Engineering Agile Software Review SCRUM 71