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Read Article6 Steps to Become a Lean Organization
After you understand Lean’s guiding principles, review this blog post to explore the necessary steps to becoming a Lean organization.
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Read ArticleLeading an Agile Transformation in Your Enterprise – An Interview with Jon Terry
Jon Terry, Chief Evangelist, Lean-Agile Strategy at Planview discusses how executives lead their organization through a successful Agile transformation.
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Read ArticleLean Product Management: Why It Matters
Learn how Lean product management keeps product managers focused on increasing development speed with work that matters quickly.
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Read ArticleWhy You Need an Agile Culture Shift
Learn how organizations are shifting from a project and portfolio management approach to an Agile culture through the creation of stable teams of teams.
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Read ArticleA Case for Digital Kanban Boards in IT Ops
The nature of workplace collaboration is constantly changing, and no where is it more visible than with team-level, digital Kanban boards. Gone are the days where teams worked together in a...
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Read ArticleCreating Continuous Improvement with Lean Metrics
Lean metrics helps measure and improve your work flow to get the most out of your Lean strategy, creating continuous improvement for your organization.
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Read ArticleLeading Insurance Provider Improves IT Operations with Planview LeanKit and Company Realizes 1,732 Percent ROI
Learn why an insurance company’s analytics team manager selected Planview LeanKit to advance their IT operations processes and the benefits they’ve achieved so far.
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Read ArticleA Look into Program-level Kanban Design
Visualizing the work of an enterprise organization doesn’t have to be daunting. Up until now, we’ve spent a lot of time looking at how a well-planned Kanban design can empower IT Operations,...
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Read ArticleChange Management in an Agile Project
Any self-respecting professional likely thinks of themselves as being ‘good at change management’, but what does that mean exactly—especially in the context of an Agile project? Blending effective...
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Read ArticleThe Benefits of Scaling Agile
Agile has become a hot topic in project management. Many top businesses around the world are interested in scaling Agile across entire organizations. But despite its recent surge in popularity,...
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Read ArticleLean Methodology: What Is It and Why Do You Need It?
If you’ve worked in management for some time, you’ve heard discussions around Lean methodology. It’s a popular business philosophy known for reducing waste and improving efficiency. But aside from...
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Read ArticleGeneral Guidelines for Kanban Board Design
Busy People Say “Yes” Haphazardly, Productive People Say “Yes” Deliberately. In order to enjoy the benefits Kanban has to offer, you need to follow a few guidelines regarding Kanban board design,...
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Read ArticleAchieving Organizational Agility
Although nearly every organization on earth is vying to increase its agility, not all are achieving that goal. In fact, according to a recent McKinsey Global Survey, organizational agility, which...
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Read ArticleThe Major Tenets to Designing a Basic Kanban System
How to measure the progress of your work and communicate your work state. In this post, we’re going to look at the final two tenets and how they’re applied into a basic Kanban system. This will...
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Read ArticleHow to Do Kanban for IT Operations
Designing a basic Kanban system begins with four major tenets. Learning how to do Kanban can completely transform the way your organization manages tasks, especially for IT Operations teams which...
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Read ArticleMeasuring Batch Size, WIP, and Throughput
Part 2: Final three of five Lean and Agile metrics to track with your team. The goal for any Agile team is to reach a state of continuous delivery. This requires teams to eliminate the traditional...
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Read Article5 Lean and Agile Metrics to Track with Your Team
Part 1: Lead time and cycle time. Management expert Peter Drucker is quoted as saying, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure,” something most product managers or reporting nerds would agree...
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Read Article8 Stand-up Meeting Ideas to Try with Your Team
Standing meetings get a bad rap—although launched with the intention of keeping a certain topic, goal, or initiative top of mind, they often devolve into disruptive wastes of time that keep...
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Read ArticleHow to Define IT Operations
A Glimpse into Kanban, DevOps, and the Theory of Constraints, IT Service Management and ITIL. Despite being one of the most important fields in large-scale organizations, it’s difficult to clearly...
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Read ArticleWhat’s “Broken” in IT Operations?
Managing IT Operations can feel like fighting an uphill battle. From ensuring the security of sensitive data to implementing new software solutions, the IT Operations team is expected to juggle a...
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