IAPM Essentials #60 - News from the project management world

What was eventful last week? What has happened in project management? Here you can find articles worth reading and links to videos or podcasts that we warmly recommend.

To put it briefly: Essentials from the world of project management.

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IAPM Essentials June 29, 2021

This week, these three articles were particularly inspiring:

Better legal innovation with design thinking
Do you know people who interrupt you in the middle of a sentence before you can finish your own thought, only to get it wrong? I know a few, and probably I also sometimes draw premature conclusions which seem logical to me. However, this way of thinking only looks at things from one's own perspective. Design thinking, on the other hand, tries to take the perspective of the other person. This allows solutions to be developed that would not have been possible using pure intellect. In the following article, you will find out how it is possible to learn this way of thinking in order to develop new problem-solving strategies.
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Developing Agile Organisations - "The Agile Mindset" - German language
What actually makes an organisation agile? Is it the agile values, the principles, the methods or the techniques? None of these! Primarily it is the "agile mindset" that contributes to the sustainable success of a transformation to more agility. To make an organisation more agile, the values, principles, methods and techniques are important, but of secondary importance for the time being because only people with the right inner attitude and mindset help an organisation to become more agile. But what actually is the "agile mindset" or also "growth mindset"? You can find out in the following blog post.
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Lean Manufacturing Advantages and Disadvantages
Lean Manufacturing: The new hype from Japan! What is it all about? Does it really make sense to use lean manufacturing in modern production or is it actually difficult to integrate it into an existing company? Lean manufacturing is about minimising waste and all non-valuable activities from the production process. In addition, it is possible to make the production processes more efficient and improve the quality of products. The following article will explain in more detail what other advantages and disadvantages lean manufacturing has.
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Further articles worth reading and podcasts worth listening, you should not miss:

7 Agile Methodology Benefits For Your Project Management
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Agile Boards Show Waiting Items
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Agile Journey
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How to become a Product Owner – 5 Simple Steps
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Is Holacracy Agile? Explaining Holacratic Organizational Structures
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Kanban Stolperstein: Alle Arbeit aufs Board!
(en.: Kanban stumbling block: Put all work on the board!)
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Remote Sprint Review in Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
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So What Does a Scrum Master Do?
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Sprint, Scrum, Kanban und Co: Was Teams nicht wirklich nutzt, muss abgeschafft werden
(en.: Sprint, Scrum, Kanban and Co: What doesn't really benefit teams must be abolished) 
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The difference between design thinking and Service Design
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When the Scrum Master Fails by Being Overly Protective — Making Your Scrum Work #13
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Author: IAPM internal / Felix Gebhardt

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