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Lean Project Management
Lean PM – Lean Project Management – is an approach to modern project management that combines traditional, agile and hybrid methodologies within a Lean framework and is consistently geared towards customer benefit, value creation, flow, pull and the elimination of waste.
Lean PM demonstrates how an organisation can systematically professionalise its project management and make it more flexible in a targeted manner, in order to achieve greater value in terms of project benefits with less effort.
Project Portfolio Management
LAUP² – Lean-Adaptive Unified Project Portfolio Management – is a holistic reference model for multimodal project portfolio management, which combines principles, processes, roles, methods, key performance indicators and governance mechanisms to enable the management of different types of projects and process models within a single PPM system.
Sustainability in project and portfolio management
LINAP – Guidelines for the Integration of Sustainability Aspects into Project Management Systems – is a practice-oriented framework that translates sustainability systematically into project and project portfolio management – covering project types, triggers, commitment, rigour/levels of evidence, gates, roles and artefacts such as the Sustainable Project Canvas.
Focused process management
Well-defined processes should permanently improve the reliability of value creation, reduce unnecessary effort, speed up lead times and/or minimise errors..
However, poor process management can have exactly the opposite effect: more red tape, unnecessary complexity and less flexibility.
Focused process management aims to realise the performance potential of processes and to avoid abovementioned risks.
Red Tape reduction
‘Red tape’ refers to the experience shared by a large number of staff that existing rules within an organisation either fail to fulfil their intended purpose, or fulfil that purpose only at the cost of disproportionately high effort and processing times.
The most promising ways of reducing red tape within organisations lie in two areas:
- The removal or streamlining of internal regulations.
- Streamlining the implementation of external requirements.
There is considerable scope for flexibility here, which can be implemented relatively quickly.
Benefit-oriented product management
Product Management requires a clear 'true north' for orientation. The 'true north' lies, first and foremost, not on competitors or current trends.
Benefit-oriented product management is primarily guided by underserved customer needs and secondary by future social issues.
In doing so, it also creates a benefit for the organisation, whose future competitiveness is ensured through product management.