Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2024

There’s also: Pressure from management to get work delivered before the end of the year for a tidy close More people off work Children off school (and before that, carol concerts, shows and so on) Personal objectives to meet for performance reviews. Lean into your project management software, action logs and RAID to stay organized.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 4, 2024

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has been recognized as an official Acumatica Application, meeting the high standards it places on integration partners and their functionality. This integration works to connect project teams with operational teams.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The scrum methodology is It’s ideal for teams of no more than 10 people, and often is wedded to two-week cycles with short daily meetings, known as daily scrum meetings. The Kanban methodology helps reduce inefficiencies, and is a great project management tool for many purposes such as lean manufacturing or agile projects.

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Project Bliss

MAY 16, 2019

The term Lean Coffee doesn’t sound like a productive meeting session. But then isn’t that what OFTEN happens in meetings with no structure? 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.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 31, 2024

Users have also bought Trello for personal task management as it’s a simple way for individuals to manage tasks, set reminders and meet deadlines. Trello leans heavily on kanban boards, but Jira offers that and scrum and sprint boards. Some use it for client pipeline management, too. Who Uses Trello?

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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. Sound familiar? So lets get it out in the open and talk about it consciously. Beyond the ideas I gave above, have a read of your companys policies.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 9, 2020

Lean Coffee is a powerful meeting faciliation technique that can be used in coffee shops, conferences, open space, scrum events or simply replace existing corporate meeting formats. Lean Coffee is easy to learn, empowers participants and increases engagement. It is also fun!

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Agile Coach – Scrum Master with a broader range: Going beyond the confines of the Scrum framework, this Scrum Master has expertise across various agile practices, including Lean and Kanban. Their deep theoretical knowledge and practical experience make them highly effective in optimising team processes and outcomes.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2024

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. Lean manufacturing is a methodology that focuses on minimizing waste and maximizing productivity. Kanban is a more flexible approach and less prescription than lean.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

UX designers focus on understanding users' needs, preferences, and pain points to design solutions that meet those requirements and expectations. Lean UX Lean UX is a user-centric and iterative approach to product development that combines the principles of Lean Startup, Agile development, and user experience design.

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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. What Is Kanban Software?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Manufacturers have to schedule their production lines to meet customer demand. It also helps indicate performance and can be used to motivate workers on the production line to meet production goals. Waste, in terms of lean manufacturing , is anything that doesn’t add value to the customer.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In the published history of the meeting, they claim to have sought consensus, and that they tried to reach a position they could all agree on. To what extent, for example, is the Manifesto a reflex of “lean thinking”? Interestingly, in the published history of the Agile Manifesto, the word “lean” does not appear even once.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 8, 2024

Identify and Integrate Complementary Practices: Based on team feedback and project requirements, introduce practices that support and enhance the Scrum framework, such as Kanban boards for visual management or Lean techniques for waste reduction.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 9, 2025

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. For established products: Product Strategy Canvas and GO Product Roadmap.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In the last blog post on process optimization in project management we introduced you to the 5-S framework, which is also very popular in Lean Management. Therefore, we will now deepen the topic Lean Project Management. In a nutshell, these are the goals of Lean Project Management: Increase quality and customer benefit.

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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. Make process policies explicit and share them with your team, preferably during meetings when you can address their questions, comments or concerns. What Are the Benefits of Kanban?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 3, 2021

Why perfect is the enemy of good - using lean change to apply agile in context. For example, in many large organisations, it is simply unfeasible to suggest that senior managers, already overwhelmed ( with up to 100+ reports ) meet up with all of their project delivery teams on a bi-weekly basis.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Real-time updates, whether by email or in the software, will keep everyone working on the same page and meeting financial baselines. Uses, Features and Pricing That said, leaning on integrations indicates that the software’s accounting features are limited and need assistance. Related: What Is Smartsheet?

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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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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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ProjectManager.com

MAY 29, 2024

The shop floor manager has many responsibilities, including driving sales, enforcing company policies, ensuring that products meet merchandising standards, complying with safety regulations and also some financial administration and site management responsibilities. The definitions of those five pillars of the practice are described below.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2025

At a recent Professional Scrum Master Advanced course, we were discussing how to promote engagement at the Daily Scrum when Mark Kuzik , lean champion and Director at Argus Machine in Canada suggested shaking things up by trying Management by Exception at the Daily Scrum. Are we on track to meet the Sprint Goal? And that's it!

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. This can be through scrum meetings, which are held daily in scrum, but they act almost as a teacher throughout the project to support the team and give them direction.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2022

The new Scrum Guide 2020 mentions Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking. Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.”. While Scrum Events remove the need for any other meeting, at times unintended wastes get injected in those events. Defects: Are we sharing meaningful information? What is next?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

H – Project Management Terms Hybrid methodology Refers to the use of two or more separate methodologies on a project, commonly a blend of Agile and Waterfall project management methods, though sometimes incorporating Kanban, Lean or other methodologies of project management. KPIs can be anything from cost to time, scope or quality.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 28, 2022

The goal of lean kanban is to start with no limits and monitor the WIP. The scientific approach of incremental change is the basis of lean and agile principles. This is an essential practice in lean manufacturing and serves kanban well by keeping teams working at capacity. New work can now be pulled by the team.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Earned Value Analysis Dashboards Road Maps Lean Concepts – Kanban Agile Concepts – Scrum Infographics. I tried to think of anything the author might have left out and could only come up with visual recording for meetings, but you could argue that isn’t really a project management specific tool (but neither are dashboards, to be fair).

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

” Mr. Harned founded the Digital PM Summit as a place for digital project management professionals across industries to meet once a year to discuss big ideas and developments relevant to the project management world. He writes consistently on his blog about software development and lean, Kanban and agile development principles.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

XP, scrum, lean, etc.) Second, the use of lean and agile tools and methodologies beyond IT, software and manufacturing. Visual, lean tools that truly engage all team members are going to become essential. Lean in a little more to the opportunities before you. He runs the online training site, OnlinePMCourses.com.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 9, 2021

viel zu viele Meetings!”. Ich komm vor lauter Meetings nicht zum Arbeiten!". wie wir die eingesetzte Meeting-Zeit „verrechnen“. wie wir die eingesetzte Meeting-Zeit „verrechnen“. Sie machen auch viele andere konventionelle Meetings überflüssig. Haben wir wirklich zu viele Meetings in Scrum?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 31, 2023

His work would inspire methodologies such as just-in-time manufacturing (JIT) , lean manufacturing and kaizen. Continuous Improvement and Lean Manufacturing Lean manufacturing focuses on identifying value, value stream mapping, creating flow, establishing pull and continuous improvement.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

Teams learn through experience, reflective meetings and specific roles that add structure and manage work. It’s visual and there’s only one planning meeting. There are no scrum daily meetings to give managers a snapshot of the progress. Scrum is a great framework for helping teams work more productively together. Independence.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2021

For any company to profit from a product, there must be a strategic plan in place to produce just enough to meet that need. Workforce: You can lay off or hire employees to meet the demand or respond to a lack of it. This is part of a larger lean production strategy, which saves money by waiting until an order is placed.

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Scrum.org

JULY 5, 2021

Not only can Scrum work in these situations, but in my experience, using this agile framework increases the probability of meeting challenging deadlines. Scrum works well with deadlines because it’s based on empiricism, lean thinking, and an iterative approach to product delivery. Lean Thinking. Empiricism.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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. Lean manufacturing is a process with the goal of minimizing waste and maximizing productivity in the manufacturing process.

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