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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Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

An implementation plan guides your entire team through the who , what , when , and how of your project — providing clarity, alignment, and accountability for everyone involved. Identify tasks, estimate timings, and map a timeline Step 4. Define team roles and assign team members to tasks Step 5. Team accountability.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 22, 2019

Understand their perspectives and needs, and work to meet them. You’ll Get the Project Team You Deserve. Because the uncomfortable truth here is that you get the team that you deserve. This isn’t to say that, if you’re a good person, the universe will reward you with a good team. So, how do you invest in your team?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

Scrum is a great framework for helping teams work more productively together. In fact, the name comes from rugby and like it, scrum is a team sport. Teams learn through experience, reflective meetings and specific roles that add structure and manage work. This gives teams the power to continually optimize its processes.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2020

They advise us on our driving habits when the road conditions are bad on our commute to work. I believe Agile software development is more than ready to use new forecasting techniques to express uncertainy to narrow their decision-making process. I believe we can use this definition in Agile software development.

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

You may have stellar skills and a fantastic team, but neither helps that sinking feeling when you have to ask a client for a deadline extension on a project. But all that matters is that you will not meet the deadline. Inaccurate time estimation is the cause of 25% of failed projects. Why is estimating time for tasks important?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2021

One of our goals is to increase velocities across all our teams by X%. Marc Andreessen’s adage that “Software is eating the world” is becoming the differentiator for Industries that were previously thought to be more manual. . 77% practice Agile Development. 77% practice Agile Development. Have you heard this?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 12, 2020

Many teams have been adopting an iterative way to deliver new services, products, and complex projects. The picture below is an example of user requirements and definition of done for a wedding agency, as well as an example of definition of done for software development. Complexity. How do you fix it? Online Facilitation.

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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 27, 2022

In most cases, project managers aren’t the functional manager of project team members, and it isn’t always clear what priorities have been set. Those project team members and resources, in general, can often be pulled in different directions causing the team to miss important milestones for that project. . Protect all assets.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 13, 2022

Talking about the problems before they happen sets your team up to collaborate on and pursue solutions before things go south. This plan outlines how often the team will check in on progress, who is responsible for which tasks, and what to do if a project’s timelines start to lag. Your first instinct is just to cancel it, right?

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 13, 2022

Shifting priorities isn’t always a bad thing. Software like LiquidPlanner makes it easy to create an action plan against your goals. LiquidPlanner helps you estimate timelines by listing tasks and then applying ranged estimations. In fact, it may well yield better outcomes. This is the time of year to assess and find out!

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Likewise, we live in a world where the whole organizational approach to remote teams is finally changing. The distributed team concept is getting so endorsed that 50% of all of the US Workforce will be completely remote by the year 2020. Agile Project Management for Distributed Teams. Make your team more Agile.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 31, 2022

This ended up being a huge issue because they wouldn’t cooperate with my team and I. Poor planning, lack of visibility and the unknown frequently result in unexpected surprises that negatively impact project progress and outcomes. . Early and detailed planning is the key to ensuring your team can avoid unexpected surprises.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2022

The Product Owner owns the content and ordering of the Product Backlog, which describes what the team will work on. The Developers own how to deliver their work. The Product Owner accountability is critically important for the Scrum Team. The Product Owner owns the Product Backlog, but Developers own the Sprint Backlog. .

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Techno-PM

JUNE 19, 2023

Introduction : The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) consists of several phases that outline the process of developing software. Implementation and Coding: This phase involves the actual development of the software. The design is translated into code using programming languages and development tools.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a frustrated developer is fed up with their manager making bad decisions and focusing on the wrong things. They constantly hover, asking questions like, “What’s the time estimate for this?” They simply don’t understand the development process and just end up getting in the way. .

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Scrum is a lightweight agile framework that encourages team members to work on a problem together. It helps teams to gather knowledge from experience and learn self-organization through working on an issue. . Scrum encourages teams to improve by reflecting on their success and losses. . The Scrum Master.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Transformation also isn’t telling your leadership they are bad, and they need to trust the team. You have to make changes in most organizations to do small team Agile well. Valuable, just not Transformation.

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Agilemania

MARCH 14, 2023

The Definition of Done is the most crucial aspect for the team to be able to build shippable increments of any product. A team’s definition of done helps them continuously add value to the product. The Definition of Done (DoD) is created by the development team or project team.

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Alan Parker Blog

MAY 20, 2024

Despite their ominous nature, Death March projects are alarmingly common in many organisations, often arising from a mix of over-ambition and poor planning. The concept was popularised by Edward Yourdon in his book “Death March: The Complete Software Developer’s Guide to Surviving ‘Mission Impossible’ Projects.” The misfits.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

Doing so, you get most issues resolved and meet your project deliverables – but, when it came to reporting, you were clueless as to how to go about it. It refers to a set of methodologies utilized to meet the ever-changing client requirements. Kickoff Meeting. Remote Team. Assumption. Functional Requirements. Negotiation.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? An estimate is. It's a fallacy.

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MPUG

JANUARY 14, 2022

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Sam Bell’s course, Critical Path Modeling Using Microsoft Project (Lesson 1: Estimating Resources and Using Resource Calendars), being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Melanie is here with team MPUG. Melanie: Hello welcome. With that, let’s start off.

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Planio

APRIL 22, 2024

According to some estimates , PMs spend 90% of their time communicating with team members, sponsors, and stakeholders. Easier to share information with teams and stakeholders. There’s no need for fancy software or hours of reading time, instead, an executive summary is a quick update that’s read in a matter of minutes.

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Proofhub

JUNE 12, 2023

As a project leader, mastering this art empowers you to inspire your team, navigate complex challenges, and drive projects to triumphant success. You can develop these traits to improve your project leadership skills. Visionary: Exceptional project leaders inspire team alignment with a clear vision.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 20, 2022

How can you conquer these “project demons” that plagued you through 2021 and enter 2022 as a stronger project manager ready to meet and exceed your project customers’ needs and expectations? You don’t need me to tell you this is a bad habit to get into. Be the project leader you aspire to be and help your project teams perform better.

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Workzone

MAY 24, 2019

Here are three reasons your team currently isn’t meeting their deadlines, and what you can do to eliminate these problems going forward. For instance, imagine your last software development project took 16 months to complete. The more data you have, the more confident you can be in your estimates.

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Planio

JUNE 20, 2022

You could go over budget, miss deadlines, not hit your goals, or not meet your success criteria and definition of done. Poor communication. Regularly check in with your team. Here are a few examples: You don’t meet your objectives/measure of success (i.e., Did you meet the criteria you set out to? Scope creep.

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

According to the Project Management Institute’s Pulse of the Profession survey , 81% of top-performing companies prioritize the development of technical project management skills. Next, ask your team questions. If you can’t walk the walk with your development team, they’re going to reject your suggestions.

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Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

It is a lightweight framework suitable for small self-managed teams. When more and more organizations and teams adopted Agile, it required scaling in a big way. The entire organization had to be in the process, not just a few self-managed teams. It meant having multiple readiness meetings, planning meetings, checklists, etc.

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ProProfs Project Management

AUGUST 7, 2020

Step 5: Conduct Daily Standup Meeting . Are You Ready to Develop a Perfect Agile Plan? Agile project planning is a method to estimate work through self-contained work units called sprints and iterations. The time frame for each sprint is around 1 to 3 weeks in which teams are supposed to complete some portion of the entire work.

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Resource Guru

JULY 19, 2023

Any thriving creative team is supported by a solid advertising agency workflow. Not only do advertising agency workflows differ from workflows for other agency types—say recruitment or software development. Meaning you can respond to bottlenecks and project changes without over-allocating your team. television or radio).

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Planview

JUNE 28, 2019

Business units present their ideas to the PMO in an annual planning meeting. IT provides cost and time estimates and executives prioritize funding based on perceived value delivery in 12-18 months or longer. Then, teams get to work. Estimates and Why They’re Unproductive. Certain types of work are highly predictable.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Transformation also isn’t telling your leadership they are bad, and they need to trust the team. You have to make changes in most organizations to do small team Agile well. Valuable, just not Transformation.

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Paymo App

MARCH 21, 2018

I also showed you how you can create a to-do list and make time and cost estimates. This allows you to create accurate estimates of the costs and time you’ll need to deliver the project. In the case of a software development project, you can come to an agreement with your client and offer two revisions to the initial version.

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PM Basics

DECEMBER 20, 2019

WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) is “A deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables. After that, you’ll get a real-life example from a small software development project. Real-life WBS Example.

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