The IIL Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

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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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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ProjectManager.com

MAY 1, 2024

The kanban methodology was first developed as a lean manufacturing system to help with production planning , scheduling and control. For example, the kanban methodology can be implemented in manufacturing, software development, product management, construction and many other industries. What Are the Benefits of Kanban?

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The IIL Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Predictive, agile, and lean/Kanban can be viewed as the corners of a triangle with a near-infinite array of options. Lean/Kanban. This approach is used in construction and similar efforts where the cost of change is high. Lean focuses on delivering value and eliminating waste. Agile (Scrum).

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 17, 2022

Lean management originated in Japan, where it grew out of the Toyota Production System. This led to lean manufacturing, but today lean is used in more industries, such as project management, software development, construction and more. Lean principles come from the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), where founders James P.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 12, 2023

Project scheduling: Oracle Primavera cloud integrates CPM scheduling with lean scheduling tools and the schedule comparison tool lets users compare schedule baselines and analyze project variance. It’s made for large and small projects alike and has been used in industries ranging from construction to manufacturing, energy and IT.

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Inloox

OCTOBER 10, 2023

An example of this is the construction of a single-family home. For complicated projects, agile methods such as Lean Management or Kanban are usually used. An example of this is hardly standardized construction projects, such as the construction of a large-scale highway bridge.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

She was leaning towards monday.com because the agile project leader in her company wanted to use it. When you’re working on large-scale construction or multi-phase project, sometimes a Gantt chart helps you do that. If you want to know what’s going on with your project, you can just take a look and everything is there.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

Remember, the market is a man-made construct, and man is an infamously irrational creature. This is founded on a lean execution that responds immediately to feedback without sacrificing quality. Then there is the human element. The mix of the two creates what is commonly called market volatility.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) involves connecting strategy to execution by using lean principles. What Are The Key Components Of Lean Portfolio Management? The lean portfolio leadership team creates the goal of your company. How To Put Lean Portfolio Management Into Action? What is LPM?

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Inloox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In the first part of our two-part blog post, you learned that complex planning and a multitude of dependencies can make a project a very fragile construct. At the time of the opening of the Gigafactory in 2016, construction work on the entire factory complex was not complete. If a project fails, it always fails in its entirety.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Predictive, Agile, and Lean/Kanban form the boundaries. Lean/Kanban. The design phase of a construction project may seek to unlock creative energies, while the build phase may focus on adherence to the plan. The approach evolved from construction projects, where the cost of change is high. Agile (Scrum).

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MPUG

JULY 12, 2024

For example, a construction project where you have a clear idea of what you want and there is a well-defined, tested, and proven process of building a house. Projects with fixed outcomes and linear workflows Agile is not designed for long-term projects with fixed outcomes that follow step-by-step processes for completion in a linear workflow.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

It is a way of marrying honesty and empathy, recognizing that truly constructive truthtelling requires a bedrock of interpersonal trust. Teach tactful candor: Train the team in frameworks for giving constructive feedback, such as the SBI (situation-behavior-impact) model or non-violent communication.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 19, 2022

You’ll also find it being used in IT projects and construction projects. To avoid bias, lean on research and real data to guide you. As noted, the rough order of magnitude is a technique to estimate project costs. It’s common in many types of projects from strategy development to implementation projects.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

That means that project managers work in virtually all fields, from software development and IT to human resources, from advertising and marketing to construction, and everything in-between. Knowledge of agile and lean approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, among others. How Much Does a Project Manager Make? Proven leadership skills.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

CPM requires that you construct a project model that includes a list of all tasks or a WBS, the duration to complete of each of those tasks, what dependencies if any link the tasks and the endpoints, such as milestones and deliverables, for the project. It is often used in lean manufacturing just-in-time manufacturing (JIT).

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Lean methodology. The main characteristics of the Lean method for project management involve reducing waste, increasing efficiency, and improving project performance. Engineering project management often leverages traditional PM methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, CPM, or their combinations.

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PM Times

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A conference talk on the challenges faced by project managers of the 21st century lists several factors experienced across industries: scope management, information technology, team dynamics, customers’ satisfaction, lean management, communication, innovation, and quality. The construction industry in particular is prone to change.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 8, 2018

You can be an expert at the textbook definition of a dozen methodologies, or an intuitive leader who manages from the gut, but if you lean too heavily on one or the other, you’re never going to fully realize your potential. It’s a practice made up of many disciplines. The British, after all, were coming.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Currently SmartSuite’s client base leans towards marketing, real estate, construction and health/wellness, so a real mix. I can see how people come for the project management features and stay for all the everything else that SmartSuite offers.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 23, 2022

But keeping teams as lean as possible reduces the number of hand-offs, communication overhead, and complexity. . The reason why these organizations work are: They accept the challenges of communication and thus construct small teams and try to keep it simple at all times. Keep teams and endeavors as small as possible.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2017

Today I’m interviewing Karen Chovan, MASc, PEng, PMP, who has dedicated her career to helping others deliver clean, lean and green approaches to project and programme management. You'll also like: Inspiring Women in Project Management: Lorraine Chapman Construction project management has always been traditionally male-dominated.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 29, 2024

Potential dangers for project managers, just picking out two from my experiences Directive Leadership: Traditional project managers often leans towards directive leadership. This creates a safe space for sharing ideas and constructive feedback, crucial for collaborative problem-solving.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Lean and Kanban expert Klaus Leopold says, “Agility is not a team sport; it is a company sport.” Organizational agility looks like a pattern of constructive collaboration between people with diverse perspectives. Choosing predictability over uncertainty. Old fashioned micro-management. Competition (internally). learning, ?drag,

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Construction and engineering projects were always predictive. The primary options are iteration-based (DA Agile) and flow-based (DA Lean). By Alan Zucker September 4, 2024 A project manager’s first major decision is selecting the approach and lifecycle. Historically, this was a non-issue.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 30, 2019

They will be less open to your constructive suggestions. This means upright, symmetric, and leaning neither too far forward nor too far back. That, in turn, will make it easier for you. If your client feels at a disadvantage from the outset, they will be wary and defensive. Tough Conversations come down to Interpersonal Skills.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Instead of a constructive dialogue, there's an accusatory tone, leading to defensiveness and blame games. These are the kinds of challenges that lean-agile practitioners are passionate about. It's not just about pointing fingers or deflecting blame; it's about understanding the root causes and addressing them head-on.

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Inloox

JULY 28, 2022

When this person leans forward, turns their head to whoever is speaking and seem overall alert, they may not have something to say but still seem engaged and interested. Constructive criticism as an opportunity for further development is important, also in project work. All subsequent messages are reactions to what the other one said.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 12, 2024

Good scrum masters promote a community where information is freely shared and the team is comfortable with constructive conflict. Good scrum masters also invest time in learning about Lean, Kanban and XP. They allocate work to team members, set their own quality standards and continually check-up on their team rather than check-in.

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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. How this Post is Constructed. First, How Lean Change Agent Came to Be. The inclusion of Lean Change Management in Harrisburg University’s change course.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 17, 2023

Amy Edmondson, organisational behavioural therapist at Harvard University, first introduced the construct of “ team psychological safety ” here in a 1999 journal, Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams (2). Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.” Psychological safety. scrumguides.org 2022.

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The Lazy Project Manager

AUGUST 1, 2017

It is not just about the provision of a ‘lean’ framework for these sponsors and project managers to work to – and by ‘lean’ I mean that every part should add value and not create unnecessary waste. To understand Challenge 5 further take a look at these three arguments: Project Management will always be a niche capability.

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

SAFe takes the perspective of learning from experience in the trenches and what patterns organizations are using and applying lean/agile principles as needed to help organizations evolve. Some of it is pure business/commercial posturing (aka FUD ) and some of it is fair and constructive. Why did SAFe make this choice?

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Leading Answers

JUNE 22, 2022

People who are interested in things enjoy collecting, constructing, and categorizing them, and analyzing them and their functions. Strategic” indicates someone who leans more toward the ideas end of the data-to-ideas spectrum and who is happy dealing with ambiguity. Of course it does, so tap into those abilities.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 24, 2017

Epiphanized: A Novel on Unifying Theory of Constraints, Lean, and Six Sigma by Bob Sproull and Bruce Nelson. Management consultants Bob Sproull and Bruce Nelson borrow from Goldratt’s storytelling concept to explore the advantages of using Theory of Constraints, Lean, and Six Sigma together. Industrial Megaprojects by Edward W.

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nTask

JULY 6, 2022

Lean manufacturing concepts have been around for quite a while now. With lean manufacturing, these companies were able to eliminate waste […]. These concepts have helped companies to increase productivity, improve efficiency and get the most out of their resources.

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