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What Is the Best Agile Project Management Methodology? Kanban vs Waterfall vs Scrum vs Lean.

IdeaScale

While the Agile methodology is really helpful for structuring teams and creating an efficient workspace, there are many different branches that each take their own approach to project management. To provide [.]

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Project Managers Should Think Like Startup Founders

Harvard Business Review

Most project managers focus on planning and execution. But large projects rarely go in a straight line, and often that planning doesn’t take into account key assumptions, and the execution goes far in the wrong direction before the need for changes are recognized.

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The Trifecta of Innovative Project Portfolio Management

Business Innovation Brief Submitted Articles

When it comes to the trifecta of innovative Project Portfolio Management (PPM), PPM, Continuous Innovation and Agile come together to create a complete framework for innovation success. Project Portfolio Management – The Burger. This is where Agile comes in. Agile – The Soda.

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It’s Time to End the Battle Between Waterfall and Agile

Harvard Business Review

Too many project leaders think rigidly about Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies and believe that they need to choose between the two. But many projects — especially those with diverse stakeholder needs and complex structures — benefit from a hybrid approach that combines aspects of Waterfall and Agile.

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How Agile Approaches Change Project, Program, and Product Measures

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Before agile approaches took the world by storm, we used Gantt charts and defects to measure project and program progress. Agile approaches provide us other options now. We can measure the project’s and program’s progress with a variety of product burnup charts. Possible measures you might use in projects and programs.

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3 Ways to Successfully Manage Large-Scale R&D Projects

Harvard Business Review

Managing extended R&D projects comes with its unique challenges, with even the popular agile method struggling in such contexts. Drawing from a recent significant build at Lattice, an HR software startup, three key factors emerge as essential for success in managing large projects.

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What the Next Generation of Project Management Will Look Like

Harvard Business Review

Traditional project management skills, such as project governance or project management methodology, aren’t sufficient to meet changing organizational needs.

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Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment

Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager

Business agile is an approach that gives the right business flexibility and fast decision-making in a volatile environment, providing a great capacity for innovation, adaptation and change. Businesses everywhere are trying to “get business agile”—but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive.

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Process, Product, and Profitability: Everything You Need to Know

Speaker: Michael Cardy - Red Hat Chief Strategist, Jason Tanner - CEO of Applied Frameworks, and Mike Mace - VP of Market Strategy at UserTesting

In this webinar, leaders in digital transformation and project management will explain their tactics for usage testing and turning customer feedback into actionable insights. Empowering product managers to drive decisions. Agile practices in strategy and process. Increasing profitability.