ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In fact, in some lean or agile organizations, over-reliance on documentation is seen as a clear impediment to innovation and collaboration. The following four steps will show you how to write a business case: Step 1: Identify the Business Problem. How ProjectManager.com Helps with Your Business Case. They have a goal.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Before we share how to calculate the manufacturing cycle time, let’s make sure we’re clear on what that term means. People may confuse cycle time with takt time and lead time, which we’ll define and differentiate a bit later, but all are key metrics in manufacturing, especially lean manufacturing.

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Planio

AUGUST 5, 2024

5 lesser-known factors that cause analysis paralysis The productivity consequences of analysis paralysis How to avoid analysis paralysis and make hard decisions easier 1. How to avoid analysis paralysis and make hard decisions easier The good news is that analysis paralysis can be defeated by implementing a logical, time-driven approach.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) and how to apply it can be extremely beneficial: that’s what I would advise for people wanting to have a year of managing successful projects. Find her on Twitter here.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Your project management philosophy is essentially your guiding principles for how you approach your work. It could be aligned to a methodology or a tailored approach that sums up how you like to lead. How to come up with your personal project management philosophy. What is a project management philosophy?

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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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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 7, 2018

Follow these suggestions on how to ask for a raise, and when they work, share the wealth with us. While it’s true that business casual tends to lean more toward casual nowadays, dressing appropriately shows respect and professionalism. Try it today and see how it can help you meet your career goals by taking this free 30-day trial.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This visual tool is handy when deciding how to allocate resources to maximize their effectiveness. We’ll also provide a free download for an impact effort matrix template and show how to make one from scratch to better understand how it works and its value. One is the impact effort matrix, which we’ll define shortly.

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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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ProjectManager.com

JULY 4, 2024

How to Use Acumatica for Construction As noted above, Acumatica has elements of construction project management software , but it’s not a construction project management software. When Acumatica Construction integrates with ProjectManager, though, it fulfills that goal.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 31, 2024

Trello leans heavily on kanban boards, but Jira offers that and scrum and sprint boards. While Trello can support a wide range of teams and use cases, Jira offers a more structured tool that supports the complex processes of dev teams. In the Trello vs. Jira match, both have similar features. Trello vs. Jira: Why Should You Choose Jira?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Learn how to help your team manage risk so you can split the work between you. Boost your skills: Make sure everyone on the team knows how to manage risks and what the process is. Boost your skills: Start by understanding how to manage a change as laid out by your Project Management Office.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It’s a method to improve process, and Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows how it can be used as yet another tool to help you manage your project. How to Use a SIPOC Diagram. Today you’ll find SIPOC as a part of the Six Sigma , Lean manufacturing and business process management disciplines. In Review – What Is SIPOC?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 1, 2024

SIPOC and Six Sigma I was asked the other day if SIPOC is Lean or Six Sigma. I learned SIPOC on my Six Sigma training It’s part of the Define phase in the DMAIC methodology and has become a much-used tool in industries like lean manufacturing. How to create a SIPOC diagram. It's from the Six Sigma tool set.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

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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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2019

This all dovetails nicely into lean manufacturing , which is a philosophy of continuous flow of product through the manufacturing process. Here’s how to setup a functioning kanban system with our tool. See how ProjectManager.com can help you manage inventory more effectively by taking this free 30-day trial.

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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. In the end, we leaned towards a hybrid solution: the monday.com work OS, integrated where possible with the tools she already used. 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

JUNE 28, 2018

There has been some backlash against Six Sigma over the recent years, some of which is warranted and will be discussed, but overall the process proves a valuable tool in reducing defects in product manufacturing, especially when paired with Agile thinking, lean manufacturing and capable project management tools. Lean Six Sigma.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. You can scroll down and get the highlights, and then read all the advice in the How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects ebook. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) I’m sure you do. Get the ebook!

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

To what extent, for example, is the Manifesto a reflex of “lean thinking”? There’s a clear synergy between lean and agile practice, and attempts to tease them apart can often seem contrived and artificial. Interestingly, in the published history of the Agile Manifesto, the word “lean” does not appear even once.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2025

As they start looking at the landscape, they encounter SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM), which can be a valuable step forward for organizations leveraging SAFe as the foundation for their Product Operating Model (some of my favorite clients do that!) Fly : Finally; youre in full agility modetreating your entire business like a product.

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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

MARCH 27, 2024

After the war, the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota looked at how supermarkets stocked only what they expected to sell at a given time. 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. Here are a few kanban-related pieces.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 30, 2019

Kanban is a scheduling system for lean manufacturing where columns are created and under which tasks that are related are collected, which are called Kanban cards. See how it can help you by taking this free 30-day trial. The post How to Design a Clear Product Roadmap appeared first on ProjectManager.com.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Then we’ll explain how to measure production capacity and provide a couple of examples to better illustrate it. We’ll end with several ways in which manufacturers can increase their production capacity and how software can help with planning. Waste, in terms of lean manufacturing , is anything that doesn’t add value to the customer.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Career paths tend to lean towards larger, more complex and more strategically important projects, or program management. How to move into portfolio management If this sounds like it could be the next step in your project management career, first, you need to be in a business that puts emphasis on portfolio management.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

While people have talked about how to give effective feedback , little has been said on how to receive feedback. We have now reached a happy balance, and through that journey learned a lot I would like to share our guide on how to receive feedback. Note this article is the sister article for How to Give Effective Feedback.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

You can scroll down and get the highlights, and then read all the advice in the How To Make 2019 A Successful Year for Your Projects ebook. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) I couldn’t fit it all in this blog post.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2019

In Review – How to Eliminate Red Tape in an Organization. How to Create Better Red Tape. This can be by first looking over the process you’re using and deciding on which side of the scale you’re more heavily leaning. Today we’re talking about how to eliminate red tape in an organization. Thanks for watching!

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 8, 2024

As project managers transition to Scrum, understanding how to enhance the Scrum framework with complementary practices is crucial. Scrum's minimalistic design includes only essential elements, leaving room to incorporate additional practices that can be adapted or changed as teams evolve and discover more effective methods.

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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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Planio

OCTOBER 28, 2024

How are wicked problems different from other issues? 6 questions to help determine if you’re dealing with a “wicked” problem How to tackle complex problems in the workplace 1. Lean on experts. Jump to a section: What is a “wicked problem”? What makes them so dangerous? Step back to see the entire problem 2. Get a plan in place.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 3, 2021

Why perfect is the enemy of good - using lean change to apply agile in context. Our team’s combined experience of overcoming the barriers to agility on numerous projects gives us a deep understanding of how to apply agile methods, tooling and technologies in ways that are fully appropriate for each client’s context.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2025

Read on and learn how to use one of generative AI's outstanding capabilities: summarizing data and recognizing patterns. Sailboat" if morale is low, "Lean Coffee" if tensions need structured discussion). But what if we can handle 80% of that preparation in under 15 minutes?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 11, 2021

How to become a Product Owner – 5 Simple Steps. You can’t do that if you don’t know anything about how to do that. The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses. Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster. The Product Owner is a critical role in Agile and Scrum.

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