The IIL Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., 2014), and Jugdev et al., PMs must recognize the signs of stress and burnout as early as possible in the project’s life cycle. Dawood, Shariffah; Pinto , Mary Beth.,

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 26, 2020

This paper is geared toward Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and change agents that work with large change initiatives. Small changes can produce big results—but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006). There is no blame (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006).

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A growth mindset is a term coined by Carol Dweck in 2006 in her book mindset Mindset: The new Psychology of success to describe the underlying beliefs people have about learning and intelligence. I had a great job as an Agile Coach working for a Startup consultancy that was changing the market with a creative way to run Agile transformations.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint—just to name a few.

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EasyProjects

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

What is Agile Project Management? . Have you ever seen a chef send a dish out without tasting it several times at every stage of the process? That is precisely what agile project management is – taste testing the stew at various points to ensure that it’s tasting the way it should. Agile Project Management Defined.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. While some have publication dates that may seem old, the principles in these books are immutable, even for agile projects. Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 15, 2020

Use “verbal anchors” to ensure clarity and understanding – comparisons, analyses, processes and steps, examples, repeating information for emphasis. . Through June 30, 2020, we are offering free registration to our on-demand course on Virtual Agile Teams (regularly $850 USD). Use color to enhance the visual effect. .

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Planio

JULY 9, 2020

Agile Project Management out of the box. Since Jean-Philippe Lang released the first version of Redmine in 2006, an active community has sprung up to optimize and expand the original code. Redmine was launched in 2006 and is still being regularly updated. Agile Project Management out of the box. Track your projects.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 1, 2016

In 2006 I left a great gig at Expedia to start LiquidPlanner with a fellow Expedia colleague, Charles Seybold. Sure, we did our best muddling through the process with complex spreadsheets that were out-of-date as soon as they were built. Humble Beginnings. So if you fit this bill, we’re hiring !

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

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. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. Pich, Working Paper, 21/2006, Cambridge University, Judge Business School. “A Risk Management Papers.

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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. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. Pich, Working Paper, 21/2006, Cambridge University, Judge Business School. “A De Meyer, C. Loch, and M. 5, September/October 2011.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Little [8] makes the claim that agile methods don't follow the Cone - that is the uncertainty doesn't reduce as the project proceeds. The program management processes should seek to reduce uncertainty in the variable of the project. Here's a very short reading list for this topic (88 more items on Request). "A 37–48, 2007.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Managment Processes. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Event-Based Scheduling , 10 November 2006. Agile Project Management. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008. Flawless Execution.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. What Is the Scrum Methodology? Scrum Values. Scrum Roles.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. The Cone of Uncertainty,” Stephen Gryphon, Phillippe Kruchten, and Steve McConnell, Letters, IEEE Software , 23 (5) 2006, pp 8?10.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The Standish Report is raising its head again in the Agile presentations I've seen recently at conferences. 8, pages 15-16, August 2006. The numbers in the report are still being used by "agile thought leaders" to establish the basis for their proffered solutions. Forgetting for the moment all the past "criticisms" of Standish.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Wrike was launched in 2006 by founder and software developer Andrew Filev. His goal was to create a flexible project management platform that is smart, secure, and versatile enough to enable modern teams to configure it to suit their processes and ways of working. . What is Wrike? What is Asana? Advantages of using Wrike.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 20, 2018

Let's start with that dreaded waterfall development process. Agile will come next, but waterfall (and of course the term is no longer allowed in US DOD procurement, but it is an acceptable accounting term), provides the easiest framework for software development cost accounting. So Now What About Agile Development Processes.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 34,000-plus subscribers. ?? Unsurprisingly, the salary also increases as Scrum Masters and agile coaches gain experience and reach intermediate and senior levels. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? My Experience with Scrum Alliance.

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Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2017

This chart is from " The Impact of Agile Quantified.". The findings in this document are extracted by looking for correlations between decisions or behaviors (keeping teams stable, setting your team sizes to between five and nine, keeping your work in process— WiP—low, etc.) Let's add to that a few more Statistical Processing Issues.

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Teamweek

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s a nice choice for anyone who has trouble consistently tracking their work time and wants to make the process seamless. It offers an Autotracker that allows users to automate the time tracking process and a Manual Timer for employees who prefer the classic method. You only need to accept them when you are done for the day.

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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. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Kozlowski & Ilgen (2006) describe this reciprocity as “process begets structure, which in turn guides process”.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities. A Few References and Resources

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Teamweek

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s a nice choice for anyone who has trouble consistently tracking their work time and wants to make the process seamless. It offers an Autotracker that allows users to automate the time tracking process and a Manual Timer for employees who prefer the classic method. You only need to accept them when you are done for the day.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. In “Schedule Estimation and Uncertainty Surrounding the Cone of Uncertainty” (May/June 2006), (the author) expresses some concern about whether uncertainty really does decrease over time.

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Herding Cats

JULY 17, 2016

There is a popular graph showing project performance versus the estimated project performance in " Schedule Estimation and Uncertainty Surrounding the Cone of Uncertainty ," Todd Little, IEEE Software , May/June 2006. . This approach is missing a critical understanding about assessing the effectiveness of any estimating process.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. Aleatory uncertainty is expressed as a process variability. First, let's establish a principle.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 24, 2022

We are still so embedded in the leftovers of the mechanical perspective that originated during the Industrial Revolution, that it takes time to adjust our eyes and see beyond structure (Morgan, 2006). But Scrum and the Agile methodologies it builds on are so much more. Scrum is a great example of a motivation framework. Taylor, F.

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Inloox

AUGUST 26, 2020

The Project Management Institute (PMI) has been conducting surveys, questioning international organizations and project managers on a regular basis since 2006. Organizations therefore rely on projects during the change process. Increasingly popular methods for this purpose are Design Thinking or agile project management.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Measure that is modeled in the Cone the variable is the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measure. With this paradigm we have logically connected project management processes with Control System processesIf the variances, created by uncertainty going outside the UCL and LCL.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Measure that is modeled in the Cone the variable is the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measure. With this paradigm we have logically connected project management processes with Control System processesIf the variances, created by uncertainty going outside the UCL and LCL.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

More recent analyses have shown that this bias isn’t as fundamental as previously thought (Malle, 2006). Survival bias happens when failures are ignored when you are evaluating if a process or decision is the right one (Schermer, 2014). But the fact that some candidates “survived” the process isn’t enough to conclude that it works.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. Again this is simple statistical process control, using feedback to take corrective actions to control future outcomes - feedforward. Resources. [1] Air Force. [4]

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

Project management is as much about people as it is about processes. To make a complex practice like project management simpler, the most recent version of the PMBOK breaks the core project management processes down into five sections: Initiating : Defining a new project or a new phase of an existing project. Author: Brett Harned.

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nTask

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Introduced in 2006, with a major redesign in 2010, the platform serves as a single systematic and flexible solution for all the task management needs of a team. With a simple user interface and smartly developed features, nTask facilitates seamless storing, processing, and monitoring of project performance – all under one roof.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

Stewart, ACTEX Publications, 2006. Agile Risk Management and DSDM Pocketbook , Alan Moran, IARM. Agile Risk Management and Scrum , Alan Moran, Institute for Agile Risk Management, 2014. Loch, Arnoud DeMeyer, and Michael Pich, Wiley, 2006. Probability for Risk Management , Matthew J. Hassett and Donald G.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

By the way, the pure conjecture that agile enables late changing requirements to not have a significant impact on the cost and schedule of the development project is completely lacking any testable evidence outside of personal anecdotes of agile advocates. 3, August 2006, pp. Systems Requirements Analysis , Academic Press, 2006.

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