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The Alignment-to-Value Pipeline: Building Products That Matter

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Jocko Willink refers to it as discipline equals freedom, or the dichotomy of leadership. Adopt Strategic Alignment Tools: Choose appropriate tools based on your context: For startups or new initiatives: Lean Canvas and Now-Next-Later Roadmap. Lean experiments for testing hypotheses. Ideally, product teams do both in parallel.

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The 18 Most Influential People in Project Management

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Susanne Madsen is the author of several books on project management and leadership, including The Project Management Coaching Workbook and The Power of Project Leadership. She’s also the director of the London-based Project Leadership Institute, which works to build well-rounded and dynamic project management leaders.

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5 Common Project Management Styles: Pros & Cons

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Scrum Scrum is a project management style or framework that is used in an agile environment. Like agile, scrum works in sprints, which are short periods of time, no more than two weeks, that are focused on a specific set of requirements or user stories. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you in this short tutorial video.

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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

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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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What Is Kanban? Meaning, Definitions & Best Practices

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The kanban methodology was first developed as a lean manufacturing system to help with production planning , scheduling and control. It is especially used in agile or lean software development teams to define user stories , prioritization of tasks on the backlog, or as collaboration tools to provoke innovation. Here are some of them.

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Top 5 objections to Scrum (and why those objections are wrong)

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One thing that every team has had in common is that, at one time, they were new to Scrum. When I engage with teams to discuss implementing the Scrum framework, they often raise potential impediments to adopting Scrum. Below are the five most common objections to Scrum and why they don’t hold any weight. .

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The Order of Events in Scrum Matters

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Rather than containing a set of work instructions, Scrum is a framework offering general principles. The simplicity of Scrum means that teams can adopt the complementary practices that work for their environment. For example, Scrum doesn’t tell teams that they need to use points. How to do that is up to the Scrum team.

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