The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development team members) who work collaboratively to deliver value in an Agile project. Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Fluid is award-winning PPM software that influences your whole business for the better. In a hybrid environment, the Scrum Master can be leading on the agile task delivery using the sprint features. Another great feature is that Fluid integrates with the other tools your team might be using. I was impressed.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

Each approach establishes the development of project deliverables as influenced by the delivery cadence, defined as the number and timing of deliveries based on the type of deliverable. Project deliverables examples include daily tasks, workflows, and processes, and will vary from team to team.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. How much time should they spend with their team or with stakeholders? From our own quantitative research with 1.200 Scrum Teams , we know that teams are more effective when they are more aware of the needs of their stakeholders.

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Resource Guru

MARCH 20, 2023

Last week, Brett Harned shared his story about the importance of assessing project scope and involving the right people. This company didn’t have experience with project managers and my project management experience didn’t include coding skills. The dev team appreciated the workshop because they felt seen and valued.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 1, 2022

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. You can observe implicit coordination in Scrum teams when you look at how work moves across a Scrum board, or on- and of the Sprint Backlog. This is also why the Scrum framework includes the Definition of Done.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It is a method of automating some important phases in the software development process. Other agile software development success factors, such as build automation, version control, and automated deployments, serve as inspiration. Finding and resolving defects late in the development process is costly and time-consuming.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

TL; DR: Scrum Sprint Planning Checklist. Read more about why Scrum checklists are a handy tool if applied at an operational, hands-on level, reduce your cognitive load, and free up time for more relevant things. Do you want to get articles like this one from the Scrum Master Survival Guide in your inbox?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

In Scrum classes we often ask the attendees to draw a picture of the Scrum framework, in order learn what their current understanding of the framework is. But they also bring forward many related elements that are important or even indispensable to support the Scrum framework, but are not roles, artifacts nor events.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

These teams struggle with Agile practices as business analysts author reams of business requirements only to have a development team write the user stories. Business representatives assume the product owner role but only check in with their team at the sprint review. The development team is distributed.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2018

In the previous article, we have discussed how Scrum Masters need to master many things. In this article we are going to discuss one of the stances that the Scrum Master need to master, that is the facilitation stance. So we can also say that the Scrum Master is partly responsible for poor decision generated by the group of people.

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Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Sprints are the backbone of any good Agile development team. Spring planning helps to refocus attention, minimize surprises, and (hopefully) guarantee better code gets shippied. But maybe more than that, sprint planning aligns the development team with the product owner. Step 1: Review your product roadmap.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

Real-Time Collaboration - Digital project management tools facilitate instant communication and information sharing among team members, even if they are across different time zones. Education - Coordinate online learning platforms and digital curriculum development.

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The IIL Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

By Alan Zucker August 2, 2023 Software projects have two measures of success. First, building and implementing working software. The development team was devastated. In my consulting practice, I see development teams struggling with their users. Second, having people use and adopt it.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL; DR: Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT Can a Custom Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT align teams with Scrum principles? Dive into how leveraging custom GPTs might offer a novel path through Scrum’s common hurdles, focusing on creating actual customer value in the face of organizational and team-level challenges. ?

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International Institute for Learning

MARCH 29, 2023

Determining your team members may be easier than figuring out whether you need a project sponsor, a product owner, or both. You may also need to figure out how to balance project management needs and scrum master needs. Product owners typically work in product development, especially with digital and software projects.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Sprint Retrospective is the last Scrum event within a Sprint. During this event entire Scrum Team- Scrum Master, Product Owner & Development Team inspects the Sprint and decides how to improve the next Sprint. Some of the questions that I really found useful: Whose knowledge, influence & support do we need?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 18, 2021

At the end of this post you will have learned: How team cognition is essentially the “mind of a team”, with its own memory and perception of the world. What team cognition is and how substantial its influence is on the effectiveness of teams according to large-scale research efforts.

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Gunther Verheyen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the summer of 2019 I got in touch with O’Reilly Media about their ambition to add a book about Scrum to their “97 Things” series. For that reason I did not want any specific Scrum accountability in the title.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Kyle: Today’s session is eligible for one PMI, PDU in the technical category, and the code for claiming that with PMI is on the screen now.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

A question that I often get while speaking with people is: What is the difference between Kanban and Scrum? Value-system Influences. Both are heavily influenced by value-systems. Scrum is primarily influenced by the Agile Manifesto which describes the “Agile” value system. You will enjoy this excellent article.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 11, 2024

Today, the WBS remains a fundamental tool in project management, with applications across various industries and methodologies, including software development. Use WBS Tools : Utilize project management software or WBS tools to create and manage the WBS. What is a WBS? This aids in ensuring timely completion of the project.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2019

Scrum is a simple, yet sufficient framework to build emerging products, provided you identify in advance what is worth building. The following article points at 28 Product Backlog anti-patterns — including the Product Backlog refinement process — that limit your Scrum Team’s success. TL; DR: 28 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2019

Scrum is a simple, yet sufficient framework to build emerging products, provided you identify in advance what is worth building. The Product Backlog According to the Scrum Guide. This is an ongoing process in which the Product Owner and the Development Team collaborate on the details of Product Backlog items.

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Project Bliss

MAY 24, 2017

The team repeats the same steps over and over. The team also reassess the work as they develop the solution. This influences the work going forward, and the team has the flexibility to adjust as needed. Then after completing all the work and developing the product, they hand it off to the customer.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 25, 2019

Welcome back to the Scrum Master blog series with yours truly. As we enter the new year, we are seeing Scrum becoming the most commonly used framework to manage complex product delivery in the industry. For example at iPrice , the company that I currently work with, we have set the bar high for the Scrum Master role.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Considering just how popular the notion of fluid teams has become, I think it is important to weigh the evidence that supports it or contradicts it. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. It takes time to develop teams. So … stable teams or fluid teams?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And so I’m looking at like all these people that were trying to adopt Scrum and what they were missing was this idea that if we can’t form complete cross-functional teams, giving them really super clear backlogs and give them the ability to produce a working passive increment of software at the end of every sprint, then it would fail.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Agile Software Development (#ASD). Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 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. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments. But what it really says is.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

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. If you're working on a software project with NO deadlines, then you're a very lucky person.

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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. And money in the bank is what software development is about.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Nehmen Sie an einer von Stefans kommenden Professional Scrum-Schulungen teil ! Executives that are not close to the customer problems make the decisions at the portfolio level, and teams execute, which can lead to disengaged teams. SAFe is for compliance and contacts, Scrum for performance. Die Daten der Umfrage.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! Executives that are not close to the customer problems make the decisions at the portfolio level, and teams execute, which can lead to disengaged teams. SAFe is for compliance and contacts, Scrum for performance. Survey Data.

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Paymo App

APRIL 2, 2018

Influence – We considered Moz’s Domain Authority (DA) to predict how a website can rank on Google’s SERP. Project Management Software Developers. You’ll also find e-books, book reviews, toolkits, and training guides to help you develop your career with less stress. PM Training And Consulting Companies.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Stakeholder communication: It is simply not enough for an agile product development organization to create great code and ship the resulting product like a clockwork. Scrum Events. There are plenty of opportunities for stakeholders to interact responsibly with a Scrum Team. Show, don’t tell.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 16, 2024

Whether managing a software development project in an Agile framework or overseeing a service delivery project in a Waterfall context , T-shirt sizing offers a versatile and efficient approach to estimating work, setting the stage for successful project execution and delivery. Based on team feedback, adjust any sizes as needed.

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