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Description

Unlock project success with Lean Project Management and join the elite group of project managers who deliver
lasting business value
to their customers. This course is a unique and proven approach to project management, crafted from over 25 years of delivering complex projects and in-depth research into project success.
Conventional project management approaches focus on delivering lists of milestones without real business value, but
Lean Project Management recognizes that projects are inherently unpredictable
and structures your project to deliver regular, usable business value throughout the project lifecycle. This approach is perfect for IT-based projects, but it can be applied to all types of projects.
In this course, you will learn through a series of
bite-sized videos
with accompanying notes and references, for a total of
over 4 hours of video conten
t. You will understand how to structure your project to deliver usable business value, instead of the daily grind and stress of trying to keep things on course. The course includes 17 straightforward exercises that ask you to apply what you have learned to your own project, and for those without a project, a suggested "case study" is provided.
This course is the answer to the question of how projects become a year late, one day at a time. Don't let tomorrow be one of those days - sign up now and take advantage of the
30-day money-back guarantee.
By enrolling in this course, you will gain the skills to run projects differently and transform your approach to project management. Say goodbye to the traditional approach and embrace Lean Project Management, a flexible and effective approach that will help you deliver lasting business value to your customers
Who this course is for:
This course will benefit any one who has or will be taking a leading role in a project, such as a project manager or business manager
The course will benefit experienced project managers looking for a new approach to break the cycle of failure
New project managers will benefit from early exposure to leading edge thinking
Project sponsors and business managers will learn to understand how best to get what they need from their projects without getting embroiled in technical details.
Those responsible for IT-based or IT-enabled projects will benefit most
The course is not aimed at those involved in Civil and Mechanical Engineering projects, unless they have significant IT content

What you'll learn

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

Requirements

  • You will need a copy of Adobe XD 2019 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
  • No previous design experience is needed.
  • No previous Adobe XD skills are needed.

Course Content

27 sections • 95 lectures
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1-Why do we need Lean Project Management?
7
1.1-Introduction to Lean Project Management
1.2-IT-based project success rate?
1.3-Project failure rates: what does the research say?
1.4-Causes of project failure
1.5-Underlying causes of project failure?
1.6-Optional reading: 5 situations in which to avoid software development
1.7-Optional: What sort of project manager do you want to be?
2-The Principles of Lean Thinking for Projects
18
2.1-Choosing "your project"
2.2-Principle #1 Identify Customers and Specify Vaue
2.3-Understanding value
2.4-Exercise summary: Types of value
2.5-Emotion is The Root of Value
2.6-Understanding value II
2.7-Exercise Summary: Map the Value Stream
2.8-Principle #2 Identify and Map The Value Stream
2.9-Regular value
2.10-Principle #3 Create Flow by Eliminating Waste
2.11-Flow
2.12-Exercise summary: where are your project bottlenecks?
2.13-Prinicple #4 Respond to Customer Pull
2.14-How do we respond to customer pull?
2.15-Exercise Summary: Respond to customer pull
2.16-Principle #5 Pursue Perfection
2.17-Pursuing perfection?
2.18-Exercise summary: pursue Perfection
3-Identifying Value and Customers
13
3.1-Defining the problem, need or mission - the essence of value
3.2-Framing the problem need or mission
3.3-Exercise summary: Defining the right problem
3.4-Creating a Shared Project Vision
3.5-Exercise summary: Creating a shared project vision
3.6-Project Vision
3.7-Identifying Customers and Stakeholders
3.8-Customers and Stakeholders
3.9-Exercise summary: Identifying customers and stakeholders
3.10-Mapping Customers and stakeholders
3.11-Mapping customers and stakeholders
3.12-Exercise summary: Mapping customers and stakeholders
3.13-Optional reading: Mapping Value Flow
4-Generating Alternative Solutions
17
4.1-Opening up thinking
4.2-Opening up thinking
4.3-Exercise summary: Opening up Thinking
4.4-The Role of Constraints
4.5-Constraints
4.6-Exercise summary: Constraints
4.7-Defining Performance Criteria
4.8-Performance criteria
4.9-Exercise summary:: Defining Performance Criteria
4.10-Capturing Assumptions and Risks
4.11-Assumptions and risks
4.12-Exercise summary: Assumptions and Risks
4.13-Comparing Solution Options
4.14-Comparing solution options
4.15-Exercise summary: Comparing solution options exercise
4.16-Optional reading: Running Solution Workshops
4.17-Optional reading: Net Present Value (NPV) Primer
5-Managing Delivery
8
5.1-Managing Delivery
5.2-Exercise summary: Managing Delivery
5.3-Please rate and review this course
5.4-Optional: Earned Value Analysis example walk-through
5.5-Optional - What are "Agile" and "Waterfall" approaches and how do they differ?
5.6-Optional: What is Kanban for Projects? A journey into "flow"
5.7-Optional reading: Why organisational change needs gardeners not mechanics
5.8-Optional reading: Free e-book: Delivering Project Value
6-Bonus Material
1
6.1-Part I of my book Gardeners Not Mechanics: How to Cultivate Change at Work