Agile & Lean
In today’s fast-paced and competitive world, our organizations must be quicker and adaptive to survive. Lean and Agile are both techniques that provide a focus on the tasks at hand and a continuous refinement and improvement of our organization’s capabilities. We seek to streamline, remove waste, and undertake actions that will continuously bring the organization to peak performance without sacrifice.
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Agile
There are times when the best solution for the project strategy is agile. Agile strips away many of the processes relying instead upon the ability and talent of the team to discover, overcome or circumvent the obstacles presented. Predominantly used for software, though not exclusively, agile can be a quick way to respond to the unknowns in the product development effort. This area contains, product backlog, sprint backlog, estimating techniques, burn down charts, and retrospective. This area also contains a significant level of learning organization discipline.
Lean
Lean consists of a set of principles and techniques often associated with efficient and cost effective manufacturing. These tools and techniques are designed to eliminate waste in whatever form it may take, from scrap or reworked material to idle time and material flow and inventory. The approach is that of continuous and incremental improvement.
- Complex Program Management with Scrum
- Why Scrum? A Short Answer
- IT Using Scrum for Project Management
- PD&D Thesis: Using Scrum for Project Management
- DevOps – 7 Causes of Continuous Delirium
- Of course Psychological…But How?
- Lean and Projects
- Kanban vs Scrum — Every Difference Your Team Needs To Know [2020]
- 15 Plus Must Have Project Management Books
- An Overview of Scrum
What makes sense in Scrum Projects, Joe Dager and Jon M. Quigley
Guardrails, Reciprocal Agreements, Essays and Discussions
Gemba Walk, Agile Development, No Right Way
SPaMCAST 479 – Mentor or Coach, TameFlow Chapter 21a, Employee Engagement
https://spamcast.libsyn.com/spamcast-479-mentor-or-coach-tameflow-chapter-21a-employee-engagement
SPaMCAST 483 – Measuring The Value of Agile, TameFlow Chapter 21, Agile Culture
SPaMCAST 585 – Most Agile Transformations Ignore Technical Skills, A Conversation with Susan Parente and Jon M Quigley
https://spamcast.libsyn.com/category/Parente+and+Quigley
SPaMCAST 495 – Done, Waste and Innovation; Kanban to the Kanban Power
https://spamcast.libsyn.com/spamcast-495-done-waste-and-innovation-kanban-to-the-kanban-power
SPaMCAST 575 – Messing Up Agile Hybrids, Deming and Book Club, Essays and Discussions
SPaMCAST 477 – Silence: A Powerful Tool, Muddling Through, Monolithic Monolith
SPaMCAST 552 – Fit For Value, Saying No, Essays and Discussions
https://spamcast.libsyn.com/spamcast-552-fit-for-value-saying-no-essays-and-discussions
SPaMCAST 686 – Pitchforks and Torches, Work in 2022, A Panel
https://spamcast.libsyn.com/spamcast-686-pitchforks-and-torches-work-in-2022-a-panel-discussion
SPaMCAST 694 – The Team Lead Role In Agile, Time, Essays and Conversations
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SPaMCAST 711 – Why Re-read Saturday, Team Leaders In Scrum, Essays and Conversations
SPaMCAST 711 – Why Re-read Saturday, Team Leaders In Scrum, Essays and Conversations
SPaMCAST 731 – Giving Thanks, Flow, Essays and Conversations
https://spamcast.libsyn.com/spamcast-731-giving-thanks-flow-essays-and-conversations?tdest_id=107081
SPaMCAST 824 You Can Never Cross The Same River Twice, Essays and Conversations
SPaMCAST 816 Goal Conflicts Cause Work Intake Problems, Finding Time To Concentrate
SPaMCAST 809 Accountability vs. Responsibility Debate, Essays and Conversations
SPaMCAST 799 Beyond Buzzwords – Rethinking Collaboration in Software Development and Prioritization vs. Micromanagement
Project Risk Management: Six Steps to Deliver Expected Outcomes
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Strategic Project Planning Under Uncertainty: Six Elements of a Credible Plan
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How to Build a Product Development Roadmap Teams Can Execute
How to Build a Product Development Roadmap Teams Can Execute A product development roadmap should help people make decisions. Too often, it becomes a presentation filled with attractive timelines, colored…
Product Management vs Project Management: Roles That Must Work Together
Product Management vs Project Management: Roles That Must Work Together Product management vs project management is often treated as a contest over ownership. It should not be. The two disciplines…
How Learning Organizations Turn Experience Into Capability
How Learning Organizations Turn Experience Into Capability Organizations do not learn simply because the people inside them gain experience. A learning organization turns what individuals discover—through decisions, experiments, failures, recoveries, and…
Business Doublespeak in Product Development
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Engineering Leadership During a Skills Shortage
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What Automotive and Embedded Systems Teach Us About Complex Projects
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