Lean And Agile Project Management

how to make any project better, faster, and more cost effective

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5 Why Approach: Lean and Agile -- Six Thinking Hats -- Analysis -- Design -- Development -- Implementation -- Evaluation -- 6: Project Execution -- Evaluation Metrics for Piloting or Testing -- Schedule and Effort/Cost Variance -- Resource Utilization -- Change Requests to Scope of Work -- Number of Problems Reported by Pilot Attendees -- Performance Monitoring -- Provide Project Status -- 7: Monitoring, Controlling, and Closing a Project -- The Data Collection Plan -- Change Management -- Making Communication Easier -- Specific Activities -- Managing and Tracking Decisions -- Managing and Tracking Action Items -- Execute and Revise Project Schedule -- Manage Risk -- Cause and Effect Matrix -- Control Charts -- Tools -- Celebrate the Success -- Talk about Lessons Learned -- Record Best Practices -- Create Standard Work -- Why Implement Standard Work? -- Elements of Standard Work -- How to Develop Standard Work -- 8: Applying Lean and Agile Techniques to Project Management Areas of Knowledge Promoted in the PMBOK® -- Project Integration Management -- Continuous Integration -- Value Stream Mapping -- Takt Time -- Fishbone and Five Whys -- Poka-Yoke -- Project Scope Management -- Project Time Management -- Project Cost Management -- Project Quality Management -- Project Human Resource Management -- Project Communications Management -- Project Risk Management -- SECTION III: APPLYING LEAN, AGILE, AND TRADITIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT TO THE DMAIC PROCESS -- 9: Making the DMAIC Model More Lean for Project Managers: Define -- Process Mapping -- Project Charter -- SWOT Analysis -- Critical to Quality -- SIPOC Diagram -- Quality Function Deployment -- DMAIC WBS -- Affinity Diagram -- Kano Model -- 10: Making the DMAIC Model More Lean and Agile: Measure -- Detailed Process Map -- Benchmarking -- Scorecards -- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis