Why do we need Lean Project Management?
  • 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?
The Principles of Lean Thinking for Projects
  • 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
Identifying Value and Customers
  • 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
Generating Alternative Solutions
  • 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
Managing Delivery
  • 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
Bonus Material
  • Part I of my book Gardeners Not Mechanics: How to Cultivate Change at Work