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. It's from the Six Sigma tool set. You can always edit them later.in

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Planio

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Steps you can take: Start workshopping. To overcome this, get an outside view by investing additional time in external research, leaning on lessons learned in other organizations and the expertise of consultants, thought leaders, and regulators. Lean on experts. Steps you can take: Search for inspiration.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 8, 2024

This post is a guide on lean visual management. In a nutshell, visual management in the context of lean manufacturing is a strategy used to foster collaboration, communication, and efficiency inside an organization through the use of visual aids and tools. Brief History on Lean Agile methodologies were a game-changer.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2022

Throughout this blog, I use a variety of terms such as meeting, event, and workshop ostensibly as synonyms. Whilst this is a Professional Scrum leaning piece, facilitation is not an art solely associated with Scrum, and therefore the language I use isn’t either. Plan the workshop activities based on the purpose. .

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Prompt of the Competition Instead of asking a simple question, I used the following prompt on designing a complete workshop on Product Backlog management to test Jeff Sutherland’s Scrum GPT and my customized standard ChatGPT 4.0: “ I am planning to create a 6-hour Product Backlog management class in the form of cohort training.

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Digite

MAY 23, 2018

In my position within Digité, I have often interacted with senior leadership in these organizations about Lean/Agile adoption. Several quarters ago, I started a Lean/Agile transformation journey for an IT service provider with their Leadership team. How do we appraise people in Lean/Agile?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Saddest is that given decades of UCD and HCD as our key processes, SAFe picked “Lean UX” to add to their model. Lean UX is neither Lean nor UX; don’t be fooled by the name. It’s a non-viable, workshop everything model that nearly zero UX practitioners adopted. But you can see why SAFe liked Lean UX.

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Inloox

OCTOBER 10, 2023

To optimize both dimensions and to create consensus and certainty, workshops or brainstorming sessions can be held, for example. For complicated projects, agile methods such as Lean Management or Kanban are usually used. Methods that are used here are Design Thinking, Lean Startup or the Minimum Viable Product.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2022

Dann ist es aus meiner Sicht eine gute Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung, wenn du das Buch „Lean UX: Produktentwicklung und -design mit agilen Teams“ von Jeff Gothelf und Josh Seiden aufmerksam studierst. Lean-UX-Prinzipien & -Methoden. Kompetenzbereich #4: Lean-UX-Prinzipien & -Methoden. Professional Scrum. Nutzerinterview.

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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. Facilitate workshops and retrospectives that reinforce these aspects, helping the team grow in effectiveness and adaptability.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 29, 2024

Potential dangers for project Managers, just picking out two from my experiences Over-Reliance on Predictive Models: Traditional project management often leans towards predictive models, which can be less effective in complex, adaptive scenarios where agile methodologies excel. Don't want to miss any of these blog posts?

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SCRUM Lean Agile Controlling 203

Scrum.org

JANUARY 13, 2020

Learn more about how to kick-off this process with an initial day-long product mindset workshop for your Scrum team. The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop. The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Product Vision.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 26, 2020

Management was practicing Gemba Walks approach from Lean Thinking. I conducted several Systems Thinking workshops for everyone I had interviewed to so people could build simple system diagrams and identify basic archetypes. The result of the workshop was the final system diagram that is presented above in Figure 5. Did it work?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This year’s RICS project management conference has the theme ‘Remaining Lean and Agile in a Changing Work Environment’ I’m not sure if they are partnering with the APM as in previous years but the agenda is already up on the site and looks interesting. There is a good mix of presentations, hands-on workshops and coaching.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Saddest is that given decades of UCD and HCD as our key processes, SAFe picked “Lean UX” to add to their model. Lean UX is neither Lean nor UX; don’t be fooled by the name. It’s a non-viable, workshop everything model that nearly zero UX practitioners adopted. But you can see why SAFe liked Lean UX.

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Lean Software Review 2022 Technical Review 183

NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

She speaks and writes about compassion, empathy, and project management, offering courses and workshops at pmstudent.com and margaretmeloni.com. With expertise in agile transformation, she helps teams adopt practices like Scrum, ScrumBan, Kanban, and Lean IT. in Buddhist Studies.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Suitable frameworks and practices for this kind of product discovery process are, for example, Lean Startup, Lean UX, Design Thinking, Design Sprints, or the Business Model Canvas. In this process, the Scrum Team validates hypotheses continuously through experiments.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2019

However, there are various reasons why stakeholders — and particularly the senior management — are ignorant of basic agile concepts that are essential for the productivity of a Scrum Team: They have never had an introduction to agile and lean practices in the first place. The offer did not reach the most ignorant culprits in particular.

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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. What my lessons have been after traveling the world and delivering over 50 of these workshops. First, How Lean Change Agent Came to Be. F-bombs and all.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

Product discovery using the Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Lean UX frameworks help, but in any case, a good Scrum Master will want the Scrum Team to be a part of this process (whether by participating in user interviews or running experiments). Training for everyone in the organization, particularly the stakeholders, is important.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 1, 2021

Join us on March 9, 2021 , for a live virtual workshop to create actionable recommendations on how to deal with the outcome of a forensic Product Backlog analysis. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Participation is free.).

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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. We expect more from our project managers – we expect them to inspire, lead teams and be more confident.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2019

From the perspective of a Scrum Master, we give a description of a 1-day Strategy Knotworking workshop. The program will always be unique for each workshop, and tailor-made for the situation at hand. “As An example of a Strategy Knotworking workshop. So back to your Scrum Team. Getting started (9:00–9:30).

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Scrum.org

MAY 10, 2022

One of the pillars of Lean is Respect for People , and the first value of the Agile Manifesto is Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. We often organize a special workshop to celebrate the successes and honor the past. Readiness to conform to the Scrum values: openness, courage, respect, focus and commitment. .

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Technical Review Agile Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 218

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 13, 2023

They should be well versed on product management, design, other agile and lean agile approaches. Scrum.org offers a scrum with Kanban workshop and scrum with UX workshop as well. If you are doing some other kind of Lean Agile, you might be using Kaizen, where you agree to continually improve or continuously improve.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2021

To prepare the launch and our trainer community for this one-day workshop, we ran several train-the-trainer events. After discussing goals, measures, and empiricism in the second half of our workshop, we elaborated the EBM framework elements deeper. I enjoyed participating in one of those, and I am glad to share my experience with you.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2022

Join 150-plus peers on May 30, 2022: HoA #42: The Skinny on Lean Roadmapping and OKRs w/ Janna Bastow. There are ample opportunities to deal with the left part of the process, for example, Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Design Sprint, Lean UX, Dual-Track Agile , just to name a few. .

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Apply Lean Thinking : Map the team’s value stream to identify non-value-adding activities. Share successes widely to build a case for further lean initiatives. Display this vision prominently in your team space and reference it in all Scrum events.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 11, 2019

with Lean Change Management) and by defining together when an experiment is successful, teams can make change feel less scary or abrupt. Join our workshop on September 17 to shape your personal Scrum Master Learning Journey and/or with other Scrum Masters in your organisation. By making active experiments transparent (e.g.

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Lynne Cazaly

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Every time we're invited to a meeting or to participate in a workshop or conversation we're either a participant or the convener/leader/facilitator of the session. That workshop, meeting, planning session or conversation you most recently attended - or led - may not have been that 'safe'. and how it will be received.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

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 in 2019. Lean in a little more to the opportunities before you. He runs the online training site, OnlinePMCourses.com.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2019

To support a journey to agility for executives, Scrum.org is developing a journey of workshops on the growth of sustainable organizational agility for an executive audience. It looks like small cross-skilled cross-functional teams or teams-of-teams using Agile, Lean, Lean/Agile methods, or the Agile Manifesto principles.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2022

This article is based on the talk/mini-workshop I held with an enthusiastic group of participants at Agile with Ukraine. I would translate fittest in the case as organizations that are able to achieve a maximum outcome with minimal output: the corporate equivalent of a very fit, lean athlete.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Welcome to Lean Startup. I’ve run workshops to teach teams how to pair program and do Test Driven Development properly (a frustration of mine is how poorly misunderstood TDD is, but that is a subject for another time). Looking to release an MVP to test an idea?

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Software Review SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Cadence 167

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. Solution Managers own Product for huge teams of teams of teams working on even larger products/solutions. Why did SAFe make this choice?

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I) workshop has a module that talks about the Definition of DONE (DoD) and Technical Debt. Initially, the team starts with the lean DoD and evolves along with the product and is a more learned approach. I have often come across several students who find this concept confusing.

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Zen Project Management

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I ran a Lean Coffee last week and before it I read a couple articles because I hadn't done a Lean Coffee in a while and wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything. One of my favorite facilitation tools is POWER; Purpose - why are we having this meeting/workshop. Just like mountain biking, our agile skills can get rusty.

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