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Introduction to the Principles of Lean Portfolio Management

Project Management Planet — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:13:20 +0000

Adaptive/Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) is key to effectively becoming an agile organization and can be considered one of the pillars of business agility. In this presentation, Shane Hastie introduces the key ideas around LPM, discusses the 12 principles of Lean Portfolio Management. He explains how they translate into an adaptive...

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Kanban for Skeptics

Project Management Planet — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:35:49 +0000

At the beginning of his book Kanban for Skeptics, Nick Oostvogels says “By listing the 5 most common arguments against Kanban and my response to them, I hope to help people in their Kanban journey and build great organizations that create amazing products.” I will say that this goal is...

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Resilience & Agility through Evolutionary Change & Kanban Maturity Model

Project Management Planet — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:37:50 +0000

Agility is the ability to adapt to changing situations. Resilience is the ability to withstand adversity. As organizations have discovered, agility alone is not sufficient; resilience is needed as well. Both are fundamental to the Kanban Method. Many people think Kanban is just a project tracking board, whether it is...

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Kanban Myths and Misconceptions

Project Management Planet — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 17:51:42 +0000

This video discusses some insights about several of the myths and misconceptions about Kanban. If you’re just beginning to learn about the Kanban Method, this presentation provides a useful foundational perspective to keep in mind as you continue your research and reading of articles, posts, etc. Those who are a...

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Improving Processes with Scrum and Kanban

Project Management Planet — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:29:22 +0000

Learn how to improve your process and to manage Agile basics such as user stories, estimating, backlogs, team velocity, visualizing team activity and reporting on team progress.

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Kanban is Like Onions!

Project Management Planet — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:26:14 +0000

Kanban value system can be organised into three layers – a familiar core that drives change, a middle layer that is about giving direction and alignment, and a protective outer layer of discipline and working agreements. Or from the outside in: discipline, direction, and drive. This system (comprising nine values...

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Moving Beyond Traditional PMO with Kanban

Project Management Planet — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:17:59 +0000

Even though traditional models and assumptions represent thinking that originated in the 1890s with Taylor (fixation on efficiency and utilisation) and Gantt (of Gantt chart fame) they seem remarkably impervious to change. Our problem is that we need to change otherwise we can never achieve true business agility. This talk...

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Kanban in a Multi-project Changing Team

Project Management Planet — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 18:52:04 +0000

This presentation focuses on improvements made over two years of using Kanban and tries to share some ideas for further work with Kanban. Video producer: http://aceconf.com/

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Kanban Improvements: Emergent Behavior

Project Management Planet — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:25:50 +0000

With only a few principles which Kanban prescribes it can’t be treated as a method which directly shows how to organize a team or the way it works. What more, it is advised to start Kanban implementation without changing the process which is currently in place. How Kanban catalyzes improvements...

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Why Limiting WIP Works

Project Management Planet — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:37:06 +0000

This presentation reveals the mechanics of limiting WIP and identify false beliefs which we often embrace in software development. It explains how these Lean and Kanban mechanics can be exploited to improve processes in both expected and unexpected ways. Video Producer: ACE! Conference

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