The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Whether you are just starting out, developing your project manager resume, or a seasoned professional, mastering the Project Management Buzzwords is non-negotiable. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e.,

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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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LiquidPlanner

JULY 7, 2020

Projects can get delayed for many reasons from third party suppliers failing to deliver on time, to poor communication between project stakeholders sometimes the deliverables are simply not realistic within the project constraints. He says, “If it’s a short delay, you’ll likely have the same people on the project team when it resumes.

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nTask

MAY 3, 2019

Teams and organizations who were looking to expand, unknowingly adapted to a specific set of daily rituals that were later termed as Agile Project Management, PMP and other such condiments. These individuals are qualified to handle the requirements of ongoing projects; whether they are related to software development or physical boundaries.

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Certification 2019 PMI Technical Review 159

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Within a project, you create teams and workstreams. Workstreams are, as you would expect, buckets of tasks that relate to a particular activity or team. Governance. First, you have to invite your team members to join if they aren’t already set up in the system. Adding Tasks and Making a Project Map. Change management.

Software Review 51

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. By education and training.

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Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Governance 52

MPUG

APRIL 15, 2022

Melanie, here with team MPUG. Melanie: Jeff is currently the Lead Course Developer for Edwards Performance Solutions, as such he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. Melanie: Hello, welcome.

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Planio

MAY 20, 2024

Whether you’re a smaller team, early-stage startup, or even an established enterprise, the success of your business depends on making constant changes to adapt to your customer’s needs. Project managers bring order to chaos, help align cross-team projects, wrangle budgets and schedules, and so much more.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If, for example, a project manager believes a member of his or her team is a fast and effective worker, each time that team member works fast and effectively or is told by a colleague about the work that has been done fast and effectively, the project manager will consider his or her belief to be well-founded.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. There was another study done that shows that 122 million wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance, a 12% increase over the previous years. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

I attended our Agile Meetup last night, where the speaker walked through the three current Agile at Scale development methods, all based on Scrum - SAFe, LeSS, and Nexus. Each of the authors have a different, sometimes slight, sometimes maor, approach to producing software using their methods. Governance is about decision rights.

Estimate 28

Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 28

ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

Scrum is a project management framework that helps small, close-knit teams develop complex products incrementally. In Scrum, teams develop software in sprints and release what they’ve worked on every two weeks. Scrum can also be used in schools, agencies, government, and other types of organizations.

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SCRUM Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 51

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. Closed Loop Stochastic Adaptive control in the presence of Evolving Uncertainty. This extended post covers.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

MPUG

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Claudia has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry and has held executive positions in product management, marketing, business development, and general management at companies such as IBM, Rational Software, Interleaf, Compuware and Gomez. I actually have a friend who is using Team Viewer augmented reality on a phone.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Risk Management 52

ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

Scrum is a project management framework that helps small, close-knit teams develop complex products incrementally. In Scrum, teams develop software in sprints and release what they’ve worked on every two weeks. Scrum can also be used in schools, agencies, government, and other types of organizations.

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SCRUM Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The original agile author's quote shows that systems engineering is missing from his development of software using Agile. While traditionally applied to product development, systems engineering can also be applied to service and enterprise systems. The elements of Systems Engineering are shown below.

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Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

MPUG

MARCH 18, 2021

Jeff is currently the lead course developer for Edward’s Performance Solution and oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. Kyle: We’re very happy to welcome back Jeff Bongiovani, today.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Governance 52

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. . Economics of Software Development. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. . Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: .

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. . Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: .

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. . Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: .

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. 255, April 2010. 920, November 2004. 1, March 2014.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Updating project management software to keep their team on track 9. In everyday terms, a project manager’s job is to oversee, coordinate, and lead their team from project kickoff to handoff. During project planning, the team gets into the details of their solution, understanding exactly how they will deliver on their promises.

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Development Team Review 2030 Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 78

Workamajig

JULY 14, 2019

What methodology you choose will depend on your team, project-type, and project-scope. What methodology you pick will have a profound and ongoing impact on how you and your team works. It was first outlined by Dr. Winston Royce in 1970 as a response to managing the increasingly complex nature of software development.

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Underperforming Technical Team Prince2 Critical Chain Sustainability 141

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Product Development (#ProdDev). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Project Governance - project management is a well-defined concept found in many guidebooks and Bodies of Knowledge.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Administrative Closure: A list of the requirements necessary to formally close the project. Audit: The process of analyzing a project to ensure that it is being governed as intended. A project team might also go through an audit to ensure that there are no lapses in project management. A project sponsor can request an audit.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Paymo App

JANUARY 19, 2018

Project managers always work in a team. They are most often sociable and great team players. Being flexible is key to team communication since you’ll be the builder and controller of the team. To be a great PM, you have to be a team leader, co-worker, and supervisor at the same time. No project is the same.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.”

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nTask

AUGUST 18, 2019

However, we decided to dedictate this weak to Project Evaluation and Review Technique. PERT Methodology allows the project manager to devise a budget depending upon the duration of the project without knowing all the details and durations of the tasks and to closely monitor the progress of the project. Critique of the PERT Methodology.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. We use Vitech's Core.

Estimate 42

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

He has extensive experience of both project management, and software development. Previous positions have included VP of development for Welcom, senior director for product management at Deltek, and manager for computerized project management at Worley engineering. So this is a poor technique, you shouldn’t do it.

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Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 52

MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

He has extensive experience of both project management, and software development. Previous positions have included VP of development for Welcom, senior director for product management at Deltek, and manager for computerized project management at Worley engineering. So this is a poor technique, you shouldn’t do it.

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Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 52

PM That Works

MAY 23, 2020

della solutions, technology consulting and software development practice, he remains active in each one of these companies provide strategic guidance and support. I've had mentors who have been instrumental in my personal and professional development and without mentors, who knows where I would be in my life.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Today, we take a look at why your software isn’t soft, explore the challenges of writing code at scale, and discuss a modern approach to writing code that will maintain its safety and simplicity over time. Video Transcript Chris Beale In traditional software development. There’s this idea of test driven development.

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Velociteach

JANUARY 16, 2023

Knowledge Management is a key practice for top-performing teams. I did some work for one of our government intelligence agencies. This runs really close, very parallel with some reading I’m doing. The podcast by project managers for project managers. We can improve our projects by tapping into, and managing, project knowledge.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Two closely related conceptual errors appear to be quite common. First, there’s a tool-centric mentality about software-related work. The company wanted to automate their dispatching process.

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