From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Project Kaizen Reading

by Hal on April 30, 2009

in agile, books, innovation, kaizen, lean

Adopt the “no satisfaction” approach that has made Toyota far more successful that others. Read about kaizen.

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Big Thinking Day for Project Managers

by Hal on April 27, 2009

in books

Thanks for visiting again. Please leave a comment or ask a question.Big Thinking Day for Project Managers

A week, or so, ago I wrote a quick review of Michael Port’s

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Lean Project Blog 50 Posts and Growing

by Hal on April 25, 2009

in asides

The Lean Project Coaches hit the 50 posts mark on Friday. Quite a milestone for just 6 weeks blogging at Coaches Corner. They are writing on all aspects of lean projects. Tap into that for your projects.

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Beginner’s Mind Leads to Mastery

by Hal on April 23, 2009

in asides

Chris Slivon shares a bit of her journey in being a lean coach in the post
Knowing and Not Knowing where she and others write for Lean Project Consulting’s Coaches Corner.

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How good is project planning? Measure task reliability to know.

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Have Project? Get Yammer

by Hal on April 20, 2009

in collaboration, innovation

Every once in awhile technology helps, really helps. Yammer helps people doing projects.

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Do You Kaizen?

by Hal on April 16, 2009

in asides

Turn daily kaizen into team sport to turbo charge results!

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Learn about TWI the Basis of Lean

by Hal on April 15, 2009

in asides

Learn about the TWI approach from the only Senior Master Trainer in the US. Patrick Graupp will introduce you to this landmark program: Webinar.

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Training Within Industry Summit

by Hal on April 15, 2009

in TWI, training

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The Training Within Industry Summit is happening the week of May 11, 2009 in Mason, OH. I’m presenting for the third year in a row. This year we’re sharing our experience creating two new J-programs. The first is for leading small group efforts at Quick ‘n Easy kaizen. The [...]

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Adopt this mnemonic for your project environment. Thanks Matt for writing about it.

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Take a stand for our profession. Commit to conduct projects in a way that everyone learns what they need to learn.

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It’s time to take our project management careers seriously. Commit to life-long learning.

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Every now and then along comes a surprise, something you wouldn’t say, but now that someone has said it, makes all the sense in the world. The Think Big Manifesto is one of those surprises. It’s a small book. Quick read. While it’s a timely message for today’s economic and political [...]

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Use checklists in design projects to engage people more fully.

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Raven is consolidating project management hash tags for use on Twitter. Thank you Raven!

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Project managers make choices for their clients every day. How do they know they are choosing what is better?

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