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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

2009), include eXtreme Programming (XP) (Beck and Fowler, 2001) and Scrum (Schwaber and Beedle, 2002). However, today the principles of agile have spread to other corporate functions such as innovation. In other words, creativity is related to idea generation, innovation is about the idea implementation. Fitzgerald, B (2009).

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Why Productivity in Project Businesses is Flatlining?

The Lazy Project Manager

If we look at this McKinsey & Company study , one of the main reasons stems from poor project management and the lack of technological innovation and adoption. Project Businesses that don’t standardize their operations and project reporting across the company aren’t able to manage their risks as well as they could.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Project Management Worker Engagement

The IIL Blog

2002) define work engagement as a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. creative, innovative, and imaginative) Agreeableness (i.e., Does the culture understand that some projects will fail because of the risks incurred and that workers should not be blamed for the failure?

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When projects go wrong and it's the worst possible moment

Susanne Madsen

​A project is a unique undertaking that’s full of risk and uncertainty, because it has never been done before in that exact way. Just consider the most important techniques we use as project managers: we define scope, analyse requirements, plan and estimate work, add contingency, manage risks, track changes and check the quality.

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The Consolidation Endgame Curve of Industry Development

The Strategic Project Manager

Change the game – good where innovation is core to your business’s culture and the organization is adaptable. What events might happen that could force a shift to a different stage, causing disruption, and new opportunities with new risks? All of these considerations relate in some way to risk. What stage are we in?

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