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Lean Construction Principles & Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

From the world of manufacturing comes an approach called lean construction. But lean manufacturing and lean construction are two different things. Let’s explore lean construction, defining what it is and its key principles. What Is Lean Construction? ProjectManager has Gantt charts to manage your lean construction.

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Using Multi-Product/Portfolio Level Product/Agility Practices To Support Your Project To Product Operating Model Journey

Scrum.org

Theyve been told, You cant scale whats broken, so they wait until they nail agile at the team and product group level. We started introducing more and more agility principles and practices (eventually, they did reorganize to stream-aligned cross-product groups focused on the REAL product and leveraged team-level agile ways of working).

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Agile Practices: How to Run a Lean Coffee

Project Bliss

The term Lean Coffee doesn’t sound like a productive meeting session. How is a Lean Coffee better than that? Read on and find out how a lean coffee is a different kind of meeting than anything you may have experienced. WHAT is a Lean Coffee? It’s since caught on and many groups now hold these informal meetings.

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What Is an Impact Effort Matrix? (Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

In terms of balancing workload across teams, the matrix facilitates discussions about workload, which helps managers redistribute tasks so no group is overwhelmed or underutilized. Implementing a new lean training program and executing energy-saving initiatives fall under quick wins. The matrix sets realistic expectations.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

For example, the project management process groups describe the project life cycle while the 10 project management knowledge areas explain how to manage a project. The Kanban methodology helps reduce inefficiencies, and is a great project management tool for many purposes such as lean manufacturing or agile projects. Lean Methodology.

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Unconscious Bias in Project Management: Challenges, Solutions, and Real-World Impacts

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Unconscious bias is particularly significant for us in a project management environment, where time pressures and quick decision-making often mean we lean into familiar patterns and assumptions. Using multiple sources to seek out information to inform decision making e.g. focus groups, surveys, interviews. Sound familiar?

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Portfolio Management: The Career Move You’ve Been Looking For?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Career paths tend to lean towards larger, more complex and more strategically important projects, or program management. Are you looking for the next step in your career? Project managers who want to move more into a strategic delivery role dont always have that many choices. Have you thought about moving into portfolio management?