The IIL Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

The development team was devastated. In my consulting practice, I see development teams struggling with their users. A primary reason is poor stakeholder engagement. Poor alignment with project objectives and expectations. Develop mitigation strategies. This experience is not unique.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint. By the end of the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team should have identified improvements that it will implement in the next Sprint.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Using the budgeting process as a Stage-Gate® to exercise control through the back door : The budgeting process is hard to align with agile requirements like the longevity of teams. Instead, the management ought to provide the teams with goals and guidance on how to achieve these, along with funding sufficient to meet the objectives.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2020

Despite the rapidness of the change, moving to remote worked surprisingly well for many teams, because they were used to some degree of remote work before. Especially development teams and technology firms in general have many years of experience with allowing their workforce to do their jobs from wherever and whenever they like.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 4, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you looking to elevate your leadership style to foster a more dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team? One of the secrets to unlocking your team's full potential lies in embracing the core values of the Scrum Framework. What is the Scrum Framework?

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Planio

JULY 1, 2021

Crossing the client/developer divide: How to build transparency with better customer communication and the right tools. Client/developer transparency breeds the kind of trust that turns one-off projects into long-term relationships. Are they looking for you to be a development partner or to help guide their business forward?

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In the complex world of project management, the role of a project lead is essential for guiding teams towards success. They act as a liaison between the project team, stakeholders, and upper management. The project lead is not limited to a specific department but works across various teams to ensure the smooth execution of tasks.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2019

They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. The team composition is wrong.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

My first opportunity to create and run a large agile team did not start well. Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. A clean-sheet development opportunity with a smart team and engaged business group – what could go wrong?

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Unfortunately, due to lack of focus over many years, most of these repositories now range from obscure to unmaintained in their usefulness. As a company that is majority developers, many of whom love open source, this does not sit right with us. We want to give back and have a positive influence.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2018

By default, the Scrum Master facilitates the Scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives or even a Product Backlog refinement session. So we can also say that the Scrum Master is partly responsible for poor decision generated by the group of people. So what is facilitation? Goals and objectives.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

My first opportunity to create and run a large agile team did not start well. Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. A clean-sheet development opportunity with a smart team and engaged business group – what could go wrong?

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ActiveCollab

APRIL 4, 2017

A project manager is like a doctor who leads the trauma team and decides the course of action for a patient - both at the same time. In the late 1980’s, Microsoft encountered a problem: the team didn’t know how to coordinate engineering efforts, marketing, and business department. Organizing and motivating a project team.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

During this event entire Scrum Team- Scrum Master, Product Owner & Development Team inspects the Sprint and decides how to improve the next Sprint. Each Sprint retrospective is a chance for the Scrum team to reaffirm its commitment to continuous improvement- Ryan Ripley & Todd Miller: Fixing your Scrum.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A happy team is a productive team. The 12 best conflict resolution techniques for keeping your team on track. As a project manager, you’ll deal with conflicts between members of your team, your team and stakeholders or clients, and even with yourself and the people you work with. Jump to a section.

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Planio

JUNE 19, 2023

Projects fail for many reasons — but one of the most common is poor planning. In fact, studies have shown that around 27% of projects fail because of inaccurate task estimates, with another 11% failing due to undefined task dependencies. That’s where PERT comes in. That’s where PERT comes in. Founded by the U.S. Why would you use it?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Although the concept has many different definitions, a characteristic they share is that members move in and out of a team during its lifetime. The need for fluid teams.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

Too bad, when nowadays diversity, autonomy, mastery, and purpose become the driving factors in a highly competitive environment where more of the same for everyone is no longer creating value. Flow disruption: The Scrum Master allows stakeholders to disrupt the flow of the Scrum Team during the Sprint. The Sprint. Nice try #1.).

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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. Individual contributor team, lead section, lead project manager, program manager, director of engineering. You can’t influence that project.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 22, 2022

This is part one in a series on leading agile teams from the Beyond Agile book. We will examine what leadership entails and how it applies to agile teams. We can create backlogs and release plans all we like, but until there is a motivated team with a shared vision of the end goal, it is like trying to push a rope—ineffective.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Assessing and mitigating project risks 7. 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. Getting approval for new projects 4. Creating actionable project plans 5.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 5, 2018

toxic culture, poor compensation) which are preventing you from attracting them, and in a pinch, contracting might be the way to go. Development team members are also valuable, but talent across most skill areas is available for the right price and with the right culture in place.

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Planio

DECEMBER 17, 2020

While great project managers do all that while also keeping their team motivated and happy. When your team’s under pressure or losing their focus, it’s up to you to get them back on track. Understanding team motivation is a major part of running a successful project. Connect your team’s daily tasks to the larger company goals.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Not to mention the wide range of skills a great eCommerce manager must bring to the team to make a real impact. But we can look at a few scenarios to help you assess your situation: When your online store shows clear signs of growth, and you anticipate more work coming your way. When you think your online store is underperforming.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 8, 2019

Today’s biggest impediment and cost to agility is the impact of teams waiting for decisions. I see numerous product development teams carrying unfinished work sprint over sprint because they are delayed waiting on decisions for direction, funding, or getting expenses approved for equipment. Money talks. Watch my video below.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing our theme of helping Agile teams understand the Kanban Method, so they can effectively adopt it for their improvement efforts, I am again honored to publish a guest article by another great friend of ours – Dave White. Value-system Influences. Both are heavily influenced by value-systems. Introduction.

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Planio

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Scalability is a big deal in enterprise development. When you’re working with massive companies, get a significant spike in users, or land a great white whale of a customer, you want to know that your infrastructure, tech, and team can handle the increased load. Performance: How your engineering team thinks about scalability.

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Project Bliss

MAY 24, 2017

When you finish reading this post, you’ll have a better understanding of each, what each looks like when applied to a simple project, and reasons why each might be good or bad approaches for your team. The team repeats the same steps over and over. The team also reassess the work as they develop the solution.

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nTask

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Creating an Agile project management office from scratch and managing in such a way that it prospers in the organizational paradigm is a real challenge, especially in the current market where we see successful businesses failing due to poor management. Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous).

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Planio

APRIL 6, 2021

A product requirements document (PRD) is one of the most important documents for teams using traditional project management. However, an increasing number of Agile teams are starting to see the value of adding more planning to their process. How to sell your Agile team on the need for a one-pager product requirements document.

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MPUG

JUNE 28, 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. And in this particular year, which was 2017, they found that 47% of unsuccessful projects failed to meet original goals due to poor requirements.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

When teams are working on the same project (or ones that influence each other), working in a cloud environment, where changes are immediately saved and synced, is essential. While reviewing your options, take flexibility into consideration. Cloud App Functionality. Is it easy to modify aspects of the product to suit your needs?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers.

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Workamajig

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Here are the key collaboration habits from this article at a glance: Successful teams are purpose-driven, have a balanced mix of personalities, and communicate frequently. Involving team members in assigning project roles and setting goals can improve their performance. The ‘why’ defines the purpose of the team and its work.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. And then the process developed a point of view around kind of why companies were jacking it up. What do you organize those teams around?

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Most systems implemented in large IT organizations are point solutions implemented to solve local (departmental, business unit, or team) problems. They know their solutions are of local scope, but they lack the power or influence to drive a comprehensive solution. The Parable of the Bridge and the Canoe.

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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. Does that make sense to anyone who has worked in software development? Save Millions of Dollars?

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