The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In this sixth article, Robin presents a business focused architecture for projects, and supplementary models designed to promote collaboration. I now want to take a top-down approach to the problem and place solutions within a business focused architecture which in turn suggests models that can be used to develop a transformed environment.

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Musings on Project Management

JULY 16, 2022

If so, you should be aware of a new 'technical reference architecture' authored jointly by CISA, USDS, and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.(*) Some of its provisions are likely going to find their way into RFPs and RFIs from the civil agencies.From the document, we get this. Government?

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PM Times

OCTOBER 18, 2023

What’s more, the construction sector is what the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago considers “strange and awful,” representative of raw BEA data suggesting “that the […] The post From Waterfall Walls to Agile Architecture: The New Era of Construction appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates (..)

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Leading Agile

JULY 7, 2021

Each view of an organization’s enterprise architecture (business, information, solution, and technology) presents distinct challenges for value creation. Solution architecture defines the structure of the software elements of a business capability by determining the responsibilities of each component in the software.

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Productivity Land

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Urban environments offer a rich tapestry of stunning cityscapes and architectural marvels that are a dream for photographers. Urban drone photography offers a captivating glimpse into the intricate beauty of cityscapes and architectural wonders.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 18, 2022

In IT, architecture refers to the standards and technologies that enable collaboration across the enterprise. Agile software development is often inhibited by a company’s legacy architecture, because the new software can’t easily plug into the rest of the system. It has been reposted here with permission. . So does team happiness.

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Leading Agile

JULY 7, 2021

Additionally, we’ll discuss the common failure modes we often see in our clients’ business architecture. We’re going to very much be focused in on the slice of the pie here around technology and architecture, but all of the other types of dependencies and external orchestration need to be dealt with.

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Productivity Land

AUGUST 16, 2023

Every software architecture possesses an inherent element of beauty. Nevertheless, with countless types of architecture diagrams and patterns, it can be challenging to determine which option is the best for your platform. Layered Architecture (a.k.a. The beauty of this pattern lies in its simplicity and separation of concerns.

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Leading Agile

MAY 29, 2019

In this clip from TriAgile 2019, Mike Cottmeyer is explaining the difference between Reference Architecture and Reference Implementation and why understanding the base patterns of Agility are so important to the success of your Agile Transformation. Reference Architecture vs. Reference Implementation Transcript.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 13, 2021

When we had this extraordinary opportunity a year and a half ago to start with a clean sheet, we knew we wanted to share, as much as possible, the architecture between our Android and iOS teams. But we were still wondering which architecture to choose. Point-Free’s The Composable Architecture. State management.

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Musings on Project Management

OCTOBER 19, 2022

"Architecture" has been in the PM-domain commentary more and more as rapid and flexible methodologies compete with more experienced ideas.It's been said, correctly, that architecture is where functional utility is addressed first (*)And it's been said, again correctly, that architecture generally imposes, usually conforms to, and applies the construction (..)

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Musings on Project Management

APRIL 30, 2023

In PMO school, they teach you that trust is everything when building a successful project team.Fair enough.But now comes "Zero Trust", and the "Zero Trust Architecture" which is more like a philosophy than an architecture. And, of course, the acronyms: ZT and ZTA.I

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Leading Agile

JULY 7, 2021

Additionally, we’ll discuss the common failure modes we often see in our clients’ business architecture. In this video, we explore our iterative and incremental Agile Transformation framework and discuss why this approach is valuable to large organizations attempting to adopt sustainable Agile practices.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 2, 2022

But the schematic design is only one phase in the architectural design process. First, let’s outline the five architectural design phases. The 5 Architectural Design Phases. The architectural design process occurs over five phases. ProjectManager & Architecture Design Phases. Phase 1: Schematic Design.

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Appfluence

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In the field of architecture, it is vital that you keep project owners happy. The key to being successful in the architecture industry is ensuring that each person in your firm is responsible for the job that they are supposed to be doing. Download [9.95 Download [9.95 However, this is a lot easier said than done.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But it’s recommended to study construction management, engineering or architecture first to build a foundation on which your work experience grows. Most construction superintendents have at least a bachelor’s degree in a related subject. If you don’t have a degree, you better have a significant amount of experience in construction.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Related: 11 Free Construction Excel Templates Architectural Design Process Once the location has been secured, then you’ll have to work on the architectural design process. There are also practical considerations, such as if the area is in a flood or fire zone. You want the property to be attractive to residential customers and safe.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 9, 2024

(that's why I don't allow the use of PowerPoint slides in my Sprint Reviews) Coding: Everything is under version control Clean Code (coding standards, design patterns, passes SonarQube) Merged into Trunk Testing: All PBI acceptance criteria are met Unit Tests for all private functions with 95% coverage (automated) Unit Tests for all public functions (..)

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Leading Agile

APRIL 11, 2024

But a shift in mindset isn’t going to address the real organizational issues, business architecture issues, technology architecture issues, HR issues, and technical debt that reside within your organization. And can we all agree that the daily standup wasn’t the missing piece when it comes to achieving our Transformational goals?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The example shows Budget and Architecture. In this specific situation, the direction and design, development, and implementation of the architecture of the product were still made by the Architecture department. Photo by Javier Allegue Barros on Unsplash. In the example, the process of a supplier is used.

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Appfluence

DECEMBER 6, 2017

This is where attending architecture conferences, construction conferences, engineering conferences, or even ACE conferences comes into play. This article will include: Architecture Conferences. Architecture Conferences 2018. O’Reilly’s Software Architecture Conference 2018. Eco-Architecture 2018. ACE Conferences.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Architectural necessities or technical debt may dictate a strategic detour, underscoring the value of flexibility and insight in planning. However, it's critical to acknowledge that the product backlog's ordering is suggestive rather than prescriptive. It informs but does not govern the Sprint's content.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Dull, Sinking Feeling You know what good looks like—a modern, cloud-native, microservice architecture using SOLID principles, built and maintained with sound DevSecOps practices like TDD , CI, CD, and Infrastructure as Code. Is the architecture of the capability suitable to be changed at that speed? You are at risk of a data breach.

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Appfluence

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The key to being successful in the architecture industry is ensuring that each person in your firm is responsible for the job that they are supposed to be doing. You can also use the Eisenhower Matrix in this format, where we renamed each of the quadrants of the Eisenhower Matrix to make them more suitable for the architecture industry.

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Software Review Risk Management Initiating Risk 28

Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

To achieve this goal James Bond needs to make sure that all the products are using the organisation’s security policies, standards, procedures and architecture. So the information that may help: Information Stakeholder Need From Product (Scrum) Teams: Are we following security policies, standards, procedures and architecture?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2024

How does it impact the architecture of the solution? Curiosity / Asking questions: why is this item so important; even more important compared to that other item? What is the reasoning behind this? Analytical: what does implementing this item involve? What changes will it bring to the client's organisation?

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Musings on Project Management

MAY 27, 2016

I love architecture, though I'm not an architect, and never studied architecture. Of course, I love system architecture, which is both different from building and construction per se, and identical -- because a building is a system, just as any other such integrated structure is a system.

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The Lazy Project Manager

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

How would you categorize construction, architecture and engineering companies? If you think about it, the construction, architecture and engineering part of it is just about the type of projects they do. As such I am delighted to share these articles with you.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

How will it impact the current architecture? Without even trying to being exhaustive, here are a skills I would expect the team to use: Analytical: What does this item imply? What is the impact of it for the users? Organising: How could we approach this Product Backlog Item? What activities will we need to perform? Who has these skills?

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Planning SCRUM Risk Management Estimate 157

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

Technical failure: this creates a program integration risk as what you are building might not sit in the organization’s architecture any longer. Stakeholder evolution: people change and new leaders at the top change the direction of the program. Resource collapse: either in the form of strikes or a key resource leaving.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 27, 2022

To help forecast their impact on a construction project, accounting will often break them down into categories: Architectural, Design and Studies Fees: These include feasibility studies, testing consultants, professional services, hiring health and safety experts.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If we were to solely focus on the Sprint goal, where would that leave other essential tasks like refactoring, architectural work, or bug fixes? It's crucial to understand that the Sprint backlog isn't entirely about the Sprint goal. Would we then need a separate "bug-fixing Sprint"? This is where misconceptions arise.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2022

Given that the cost of change was high, significant effort would be made with hopes that early decisions about system design and architecture would not have to be revisited. Look”, they might say, “as the project was in the Planning phase, a budget of $x,000 was approved for Team A to produce an Architectural Requirements Document.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2023

We used to call this the ‘thinking phase’, and it resulted in a wide variety of plans: functional designs, technical designs, database designs, architectural blueprints, test cases & scenarios, roadmaps, release plannings, etcetera. PBI has been verified to conform to the architectural conventions of the organization.” “PBI

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review SCRUM 170

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Coming from architectural project management myself, I find it interesting how we as designers operate with design teams in a different way than we do for the overall management – during concept and design development it’s extremely iterative, whereas the project management is largely waterfall with occasional periods of hybrid.

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