People often consider Lean as making money. Well, every business aims to generate revenue. The purpose of Lean, as we will see in the case of entrepreneurs, is to ensure that values are supplied to the customer. This is through products designed to cater to the needs of the customers.
This waste management thinking has helped a lot of businesses shape their visions in creating substantial products with value-filled services and not just producing to make money. Of course, income will flow in as a result of massive sales. It is a beneficial situation both for the manufacturer and the customer. The customer enjoys the product; the manufacturer receives his pay.
This book covers the following topics:
The Toyota production system
Total quality management
Advantages and benefits
Understand the principles of lean
Kaizen
Types of Kanban systems
Six sigma
Kanban
...And much more
Lean Thinking helps you have real-time experience with the customers, and you can build the product in line with their taste and expectations. You cannot always be in the same position. "No Growth" is terrible for business. Big enterprises, including startup businesses, are sure to have ups and downs at one point in time. There will be discouragement, break in production, and other hazards surround the business world. So, to thrive, get ready for the bad times.
When a situation goes south, one of the most effective ways to quickly overcome it is by overturning it into an opportunity. Consider the critical Lean formula on facing uncertainties: "chaos + speed + pivots = success."
Like it or not, good project management doesn't just happen - just like excellent athletes and their coaches don't just happen.
Good project management is a cumulus of factors that influence the outcome of a project. On the one hand, you need a team dedicated to working within deadlines and within the quality and functionality specifications of the client.
On the other hand, you need a sturdy person who can actually overlook the development of the entire project - a project manager, that is. More often than not, people believe a project manager is some sort of spreadsheet juggler - a miraculous person capable of reading minds, motivating people (including themselves), and enabling intriguing functions in Excel.
Sure, those might all be requirements of a good project manager - and yes, we're pretty serious about the mind-reading quality (not so much in a paranormal sense, but in the sense of being capable to communicate beyond words).
Beyond all this, though, excellent project managers have the experience, the knowledge, and the constant thirst for doing better that pushes them to learn and relearn their craft over and over again, with every project, with every team structure, with every company they work for.
Good project managers constantly search for the very best methods to make things happen, to make them happen in time, and to make them happen well.
This is precisely why there are so many project management methods - and while agile itself has become, as you will see later on in this book, an umbrella term for a myriad of frameworks and every combination they can make.
What Is a Project?
The question itself might sound silly, but the truth is that you can't do proper project management without defining the very object of your work: the project.
In simple terms, a project is a series of activities meant to achieve a specific goal. The goal might be something pretty large, like a brand new, innovative software application. Or it might be something internal, like boosting the engagement among the employees. And it might as well be something more granular, such as a Black Friday marketing campaign in an eCommerce store.
This book covers the following topics:
Advantages and Benefits
Understand the Principles of Agile
Tools and Methodologies
Skills and Software Development
Monitoring and Tips for Success
The Agile Process
What Are The Reasons Why Agile Project Management Could Fail?
Tools for Greater Team Effectiveness in Agile Project Management
The Agile Development Process
Benefits of Agile Methodology
Disadvantages of Agile Methodology
How to Agile: The Work Ethic and Values
The Authenticity of Agile Management
...And much more
If you have a goal and if your goal requires more than a couple of steps to be reached, you are most likely not facing a task, or even a series of tasks, but a project.
Like it or not, good project management doesn't just happen - just like excellent athletes and their coaches don't just happen.
Good project management is a cumulus of factors that influence the outcome of a project. On the one hand, you need a team dedicated to working within deadlines and within the quality and functionality specifications of the client.
This book covers the following topics:
✓ Lean Thinking. It helps you have real-time experience with the customers, and you can build the product in line with their taste and expectations. You cannot always be in the same position. "No Growth" is terrible for business. Big enterprises, including startup businesses, are sure to have ups and downs at one point in time. There will be discouragement, break in production, and other hazards surround the business world.
✓ Agile. It is about a lot more than just hanging out in circles every day and playing little games when it comes to splitting larger tasks into smaller ones. In simple terms, a project is a series of activities meant to achieve a specific goal. The goal might be something pretty large, like a brand new, innovative software application. Or it might be something internal, like boosting the engagement among the employees.
✓ Scrum. It is possibly the very first thing that people think about when someone mentions Agile. It's no coincident, and this is the most frequently used framework that teams use. It provides the highest possible value for products, allows developers to quickly and decisively adapt to changes, and keeps them productive. It's the values, the team, the work put in, and the communication necessary for the project.
...And much more
If you have a goal and if your goal requires more than a couple of steps to be reached, you are most likely not facing a task, or even a series of tasks, but a project.
Автор: Toyoda Mika, Yuasa Masaaki, Yoshida Reiko Название: Ride Your Wave (Light Novel) ISBN: 1648271200 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781648271205 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 8580.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The novel version of the acclaimed anime film about surfing, summer love, grief, and a hint of magic. Carefree Hinako moves to a small seaside town to surf. When her new apartment catches fire, she's rescued by Minato, a gentle firefighter with a heart of gold.
The two soon begin surfing together, and before they know it, they're falling in love. But their young romance comes to an abrupt halt when tragedy strikes. Now Hinako is determined to rescue Minato, just like he once saved her.
A moving tale of love and yearning based on the award-winning anime.
Автор: Hall John Whitney, Takeshi Toyoda Название: Japan in the Muromachi Age ISBN: 1885445091 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781885445094 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 26300.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The Muromachi age may well emerge in the eyes of historians as one of the most seminal periods in Japanese history. So concluded the participants in the 1973 Conference on Japan. The proceedings, as edited for this volume, reveal this new interpretation of the Muromachi age (1334-1573), which was among the most neglected and misunderstood chapters in Japanese history. Both Western and Japanese scholars looked upon the period chiefly as an interlude between a classical era (the Heian period) and an early modern age (the Tokugawa period), the interim being regarded as a time of social confusion and institutional decay. As they learned more, historians saw the Muromachi age giving rise to new patterns that became important elements in a distinctly Japanese tradition; e.g., the arts of noh drama, suiboku painting, landscape gardening and the tea ceremony were perfected during Muromachi times.The volume brings together the work of Japanese and American specialists and shows that many features of Edo-period culture were anticipated by Muromachi developments. Although the volume was first published nearly three decades ago, it remains of great interest for anyone wanting to know more about Japan's historical development.
-- "Pacific Affairs"
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