Lean Project Management by Udemy
Transform Your Approach and Deliver Lasting Business Value
Course Highlights
- Define, design and run projects that deliver lasting business value
- Apply The Principles of Lean thinking to their projects
- Use the Lean Project Management Framework to deliver successful projects
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
7 Topics
Introduction to Lean Project Management
IT-based project success rate?
Project failure rates: what does the research say?
Causes of project failure
Underlying causes of project failure?
Optional reading: 5 situations in which to avoid software development
Optional: What sort of project manager do you want to be?
18 Topics
Choosing "your project"
Principle #1 Identify Customers and Specify Vaue
Understanding value
Exercise summary: Types of value
Emotion is The Root of Value
Understanding value II
Exercise Summary: Map the Value Stream
Principle #2 Identify and Map The Value Stream
Regular value
Principle #3 Create Flow by Eliminating Waste
Flow
Exercise summary: where are your project bottlenecks?
Prinicple #4 Respond to Customer Pull
How do we respond to customer pull?
Exercise Summary: Respond to customer pull
Principle #5 Pursue Perfection
Pursuing perfection?
Exercise summary: pursue Perfection
13 Topics
Defining the problem need or mission - the essence of value
Framing the problem need or mission
Exercise summary: Defining the right problem
Creating a Shared Project Vision
Exercise summary: Creating a shared project vision
Project Vision
Identifying Customers and Stakeholders
Customers and Stakeholders
Exercise summary: Identifying customers and stakeholders
Mapping Customers and stakeholders
Mapping customers and stakeholders
Exercise summary: Mapping customers and stakeholders
Optional reading: Mapping Value Flow
17 Topics
Opening up thinking
Opening up thinking
Exercise summary: Opening up Thinking
The Role of Constraints
Constraints
Exercise summary: Constraints
Defining Performance Criteria
Performance criteria
Exercise summary:: Defining Performance Criteria
Capturing Assumptions and Risks
Assumptions and risks
Exercise summary: Assumptions and Risks
Comparing Solution Options
Comparing solution options
Exercise summary: Comparing solution options exercise
Optional reading: Running Solution Workshops
Optional reading: Net Present Value (NPV) Primer
8 Topics
Managing Delivery
Exercise summary: Managing Delivery
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Optional: Earned Value Analysis example walk-through
Optional - What are "Agile" and "Waterfall" approaches and how do they differ?
Optional: What is Kanban for Projects? A journey into "flow"
Optional reading: Why organisational change needs gardeners not mechanics
Optional reading: Free e-book: Delivering Project Value
1 Topic
Part I of my book Gardeners Not Mechanics: How to Cultivate Change at Work
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