The IIL Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Emphasis on Sustainability and ESG Practices The year 2024 underscores an amplified emphasis on sustainability and the integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices into project management. These styles aim to ensure enhanced team cohesion and commitment towards achieving project success in prolonged project cycles.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Instead, you would probably get more use out of investing your reading time in User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Mike Cohn). I would suggest it’s User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn. User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn.

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Emphasis on Sustainability and ESG Practices: The year 2024 underscores an amplified emphasis on sustainability and the integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices into project management. These styles aim to ensure enhanced team cohesion and commitment towards achieving project success in prolonged project cycles.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Recommended Articles. TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions (1). Introduction.

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Scrum.org

MAY 9, 2020

In software development context, it doesn’t work differently. . Although it can be argued that figuring out the systemic constraints is not that straightforward, it actually works in a similar way in software development context. Special thanks to Maarten Dalmijn & David Pereira for their contribution to this article.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

We have read books and journal articles on various project management topics. Public Sector Project Manager Selection In most government agencies, PMs were seen more so as project monitors rather than project managers. The assignment as a government project monitor was seen as an add-on to one’s normal job.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2024

In this article, I will share some of these insights and discuss one of the most effective frameworks for optimizing organizations for peak performance: value streams. Value Streams Agile revolutionized more than just software development, quickly gaining traction with other business units such as legal, finance, and marketing.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? But as UX gains importance in software development, there is a growing need to incorporate it within the Scrum framework, which means integrating user testing and design into the Sprint flow. Example: Including a governance entity in the release process.)

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

Since I became a Professional Scrum Trainer in November, I have been asked a lot about the current state, and the future perspectives, for Scrum and agile development in Japan, where I’ve worked for the last six years. In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking.

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Productivity Land

JUNE 7, 2023

Software development is a huge and growing industry, worth nearly half a trillion dollars in the U.S. If you’re joining the industry and starting your own software development business, you’ll want to get off to a good start by properly setting up your business entity.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Be warned, though: Typical objections to deleting unnecessary Product Backlog items range from “we cannot delete them—it is our documentation as required by governance” to “we invested so much work in creating them.” (The Watch the replay of the webinar now ! ?? 9: Misaligned Incentives.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 2, 2017

So for projects that spend other people's money in the presence of uncertainty - Governance is a means to establish those shared principles. Governance is about Decision Rights. This is paradigm is usually found at the Enterprise level of software development. Not designing and developing the software.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Metrics around the success and progress of a software development project are many and varied. One way to sell an Agile system is to offer executives a stake in proposing new metrics and tools for measuring and reporting the development projects under their watch. Propose new metrics for progress and status (with exec input).

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Workamajig

JULY 14, 2019

In this article, I’ll give you a complete overview of different PMMs and how to choose them. It was first outlined by Dr. Winston Royce in 1970 as a response to managing the increasingly complex nature of software development. Since then, it has become widely adopted, most prominently in the software industry. Advantages.

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NimbleWork

JANUARY 2, 2025

From Software development to enterprise-level transformations, Agile has become the cornerstone of modern work, empowering teams to be flexible, iterative, and customer-focused. This article is a tribute to the individuals who are shaping this dynamic field.

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Epicflow Blog

JULY 5, 2024

In this article, we highlight the top 15 capacity planning tools and offer valuable recommendations to help you select the most suitable one for your business needs. A capacity planning tool is software developed to assist organizations in allocating and managing their resources more effectively.

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Binfire

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

The other day I was reading an article in which the author argues , in order for the government agencies to become more efficient, they need to transition to the Agile method! For the government agencies to get efficient, they need to embrace Agile methodology. . Could be used by non-software projects too). 6- Crystal.

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

This article presents the top 25 project management influencers who have distinguished themselves through visionary thinking, practical expertise, and an unwavering commitment to advancing the profession. He has written more than 8,000 articles, eBooks, and white papers on project management.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

For example, about which software to buy, which Features in the development backlog should be implemented next, what prices to charge for products and services. Software development is an exercise in microeconomics, since it deals with limited resources - time, cost, and what value is produced in exchange for the time and money.

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Binfire

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

So how do you choose the best project management software for your team? In this article I lay down the processes that you need to follow for selecting the right project management software for your business. This is not a product review article, but a guide on how to choose the right software for your needs.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

This article focuses on introducing the most common project management methodologies that exist and eventually helping you choose the winning approach every time. Originally developed by Motorola, Six Sigma is a project management methodology that is primarily driven by data. Reducing the number of bugs (in software development), or.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

RUP was developed by Rational Corporation which was later acquired by IBM. It is an iterative software development approach which divides the project lifecycle into four phases: Inception, Elaboration, Construction, and Transition. I had to learn about RUP because our company had adopted it to implement and manage projects.

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The IIL Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This could be due to bias in the coding – who is at fault legally–is it the software owner, developer, purchaser, or project team for not doing appropriate assurances and testing? Articles are being published that discuss many of the legal issues that can result from the use of AI. Register here.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. This domain has turned into the S oftware Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) paradigm that dominates software development activities today. Related articles. What's the Smell of Dysfunction?

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The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

The first article in this series described the boundaries and color-mix of approaches: Predictive. This article discusses how these approaches may be reflected in central project management domains. Agile evolved from software development, where the cost of change is low. Hybrid is the vast interior space. Hybrid-Agile.

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MPUG

APRIL 11, 2022

War is hell, and not something any sane person plans for (outside of the government, that is). Well…actually no, they do not, nor do very few others outside of government and humanitarian agencies have procedures, techniques, or plans for the unfortunate event of an all-out war within a country or region. PM Stories from the Front.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We thought it would be cool to round up all those Field Notes into one article and share the best of the best with you. Four Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation In this article, our CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, explores why focusing on practices and culture isn’t the right place to start an Agile Transformation.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The History of Agile Project Management Agile project management emerged in the software development industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 2001, a group of software development thought leaders came together and devised the Agile Manifesto. Myth: Agile projects are only suitable for software and IT development.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Predictive Winston Royce first described the waterfall approach in 1971 as a software development methodology based on his experience building systems for spacecraft. Large bureaucratic companies, government agencies, and organizations with low agile maturity fit this pattern.

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International Institute for Learning

JULY 28, 2022

In this article, I want to explain the relationship between product management and project management, why I think PRINCE2 is the best project management platform to use when you are dealing with managing multiple Scrum teams , and the reason why PRINCE2 is not used a lot, at least not yet , in the US. By Peter Krischel.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Federal and state governments. Software development. In 2001, new methodology pioneers met in Snowbird, Utah to share their experiences and to suggest ideas for improving the world of software development. They came up with the Agile Manifesto to streamline the development process. Energy and utilities.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

For the sake of brevity and sticking to project management terminology, I will use lifecycle as a single word in the rest of the article. Phase and stage are synonymous, but phase is the more commonly used term. Project Lifecycle and Phases. A project lifecycle can be simply understood as a collection of phases.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This article will discuss how Disney can use the Scaled Agile Framework® to address the challenges a large organization will face when implementing it in its software development process. In addition, Roy, Disney’s brother, served as Business Owner, overseeing cost governance and ROI over the project as Product Manager.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The word of the day is: Developer. This quote from Angie Jones, in a TechBeacon article , illustrates the problematic use of the word: “To become an automation engineer you had to possess the skill set of a developer and the mindset of a tester.” Testing is central to software development. ” Why?

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 30, 2017

One notion in a governance paradigm is It's Not Your Money . I'd like to provide some background on how proper governance leads to proper estimating and how that's done when those asking for and those providing the estimates have a mutual understanding the reasons for why estimates are needed for any non-trivial project work.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This is where powerful capacity planning software can make a difference. Read the article to learn about top capacity planning tools applicable to manufacturing projects and learn how to select the most suitable one. What is Manufacturing Capacity Planning Software?

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Product Backlog A prioritized list of features, enhancements, and fixes for a product that needs to be accomplished and is often used in Agile product development. Product Owner An Agile team member who is responsible for representing the customer/client’s interests and prioritizing features in software development.

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