Month: November 2021

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PMP Study Plan

Daunted by the PMP Exam? Use a Big Picture Roadmap and Small Chunks to Tackle it with Confidence (The PMP Exam® can seem like a big scary monster, but it is worth pursuing.)     Value The PMP credential is valued by hiring managers for a reason. It is not a “Certification-Mill” produced certificate that is easy to get and issued for just attending a class or passing a trivial exam. You have to understand the concepts involved and show you know how to apply them. This makes it more challenging to master but also more worthwhile. Salary surveys (including PMI’s New 12th Edition Report) indicate project managers with a PMP credential earn, on average, 16% more than those without […]

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Agile Project Management, Books, Lean, Theory of Constraints

Beyond Agile Gratitude #2 – Lean Thinking and the Kanban Method

Now that my Beyond Agile book has been published, I would like to thank people who helped shape its content and ideas. David Anderson has done much to popularize and explain lean and the Theory of Constraints thinking. The Kanban Method can teach agile practitioners many useful ideas about incremental improvement, successful organizational change, and improved team performance. So, rather than considering it an alternative to agile approaches, I like to think of it as a compliment, another source for ideas, tools, and solutions. We have a tendency to get attached to our personal favorite agile approach, whether that is Scrum, XP, or something else, and regard alternative approaches as somehow inferior or derivative. However, the Kanban Method has some […]

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