• Lean

  • What You Need to Know About Lean Six Sigma, Agile Project Management, Scrum and Kanban
  • By: Robert McCarthy
  • Narrated by: Sam Slydell
  • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (27 ratings)

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By: Robert McCarthy
Narrated by: Sam Slydell
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Publisher's Summary

If you’re looking for a way to manage projects more effectively and more efficiently, then keep reading...

Are you frustrated that projects often miss timelines and overshoots the budget?

Do you want an advantage towards your competitors?

If so, then you've come to the right place.

A study done by researchers Raja Sreedharan and Ramasamy Raju showed that Lean Six Sigma is a strategy for success.

Furthermore, a paper by James Womack and Daniel Jones showed that Lean Thinking is the new best way to better processes.

Various Lean wastes are eliminated or reduced to a high degree.

Lean Thinking is the antidote to wasteful processes.

Having a sound understanding of these methods will set you apart from other project managers.

Here’s a fraction of what you’ll discover in part one:

  • What are project management and its different methodologies?
  • How do you choose the right methodology for your project?
  • What is the role of a project manager?
  • What is lean, and how do you set up lean teams?
  • How do you begin a lean project?
  • What is a lean startup and enterprise?
  • An understanding of the Agile framework
  • An understanding of Scrum and Kanban
  • How to set up a Scrum or Kanban project

In part two you’ll learn things like:

  • Fundamental principles and concepts that will improve your processes manifolds.
  • Tools and techniques to better understand your customer.
  • Methods to identify root causes and solve them.
  • An overview of the most crucial process in Lean Six Sigma.
  • The countless benefits of using Lean Six Sigma.
  • Various examples of the multiple phases you should undertake.
  • Numerous step-by-step explanations on how to move forward with Lean Six Sigma.

So, what are you waiting for? Buy a copy of this audiobook now!

©2020 Robert McCarthy (P)2020 Robert McCarthy

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Get it

In the event that you have a thought for another business, particularly a web-based business, this book is a must-peruse. The creator makes sense of how to iteratively construct a business without any preparation by using the logical strategy.

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Very good book

Carrying the lean assembling idea to startup, the book assists with supporting that startup should be deft; and construct measure-learn is the persistent improvement process for startup and enormous organization.

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even more so for large companies

The Lean Startup is a MUST BOOK for anybody engaged with new businesses nowadays. On the off chance that I needed to prescribe one book to fledgling business people in the present market, it would be this book - no inquiry.

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Essentials guide

A fundamental instrument for any individual who needs to look into the business, the apparatuses you gain from here will truly give you information strengthening you really want to start up anything.

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Great viewpoint

Likewise works effectively making sense that new businesses aren't just new organizations, yet subsets of bigger associations as well

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this would be its Bible.

As a matter of fact, a huge piece of the book is committed to making sense of the benefits of the Lean strategy and persuading the unconvinced. The remainder of the book makes sense of the fundamental standards of Lean exhaustively, with some genuine models, which are profoundly moving as well.

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development needs to follow this book!

This book is breathtaking. I love Robert McCarthy tells the truth in tending to circumstances looked by new companies, and his scholarly interest and quest for greatness radiates through.

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The guidance in the Lean Startup

This is the thing each effective organization does, yet it is seldom arranged. Frequently it happens excessively late out of distress. The guidance in the Lean Startup.

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practical and helpful

By and large, this book is a decent perused, particularly for somebody that had quite recently come from a bombed startup. A large part of the issues he brought up impacted me.

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Finally!

It is about the clients and their ways of behaving AND their cash. Could you at any point construct a development motor? At long last!!! Gratitude for placing everything in one spot and giving relevant models.

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  • Alida Kealoha
  • 06-14-22

Perfect for the startup community

This is a set state commitment for us working in conditions described by extraordinary vulnerability and progress

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  • Lino Kapoor
  • 06-08-22

Excellent concepts

Would have given it 5 stars, but then again, actually, the creator gets very dreary while investigating the nuances of applying the Lean administration methods. A couple of formats to kick novices off would have made a difference.

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  • Keneth Crepeau
  • 06-07-22

a powerful way

The Lean Startup clarifies what devices you ought to utilize and relies on a basic component of involving information in a thorough way to deal with be your directing star on what the following most significant undertaking ought to be. Incredible stuff.

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  • Jayson Carlyle
  • 06-06-22

Every Tech Startup

Nothing here is truly fantastically new, yet the methodology and how to focus on and ponder what is happening are basic to a startup. A word of wisdom on the best way to contemplate the issue, a few functional models.

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  • Raquel Mchaney
  • 06-05-22
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Good👌👌👌👌

Robert McCarthy gives loads of models and stories to back up the zinger of his book. On the off chance that you needn't bother with to be sold or don't have to sell the thought, then, at that point, you can skim that and simply follow the tables and introduction/shutting sections.

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  • Letitia Prochnow
  • 06-03-22

Excellent book

I might want to see more leaders at laid out organizations follow this to all the more likely oversee and team up with corporate business people; a few societies are opposed to the turn, yet being available to this sort of progress can represent the deciding moment.

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  • Breann Morelock
  • 06-02-22

Seems OK

I don't get it, except if you're a startup, it simply doesn't fit with bigger organizations and damns certain doesn't fit in each authority course I have at any point taken

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  • Latrina Evenson
  • 05-31-22

important data on the best way

important data on the best way to utilize lean startup strategies to assist with taking out inefficient exercises and on second thought center around the undertakings and procedures to assist with getting through the obligations of straight development and accomplish the dramatic.

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  • Kate Bays
  • 05-30-22

highly recommended

I really would rather that the book doesn't get into attempting to advise the client on how to apply procedures all over the board explicitly. As such, you need to take the information and channel it through your own decisive reasoning to adjust it to your own motivations. As far as I might be concerned, that is the characteristic of a genuine best practice. An important idea, substantial definitions - and the capacity to adjust it to a wide crowd.

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  • Monnie Olea
  • 05-28-22
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important message

The book is written in open and agreeable exposition and contains contextual analyses and numerous down-to-earth messages for would-be business people.