The IIL Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

Ultimately, you’re probably already measuring the performance of your processes and the services you provide, and you can use those same measures to see if there is any improvement, any increase from the baseline or history of metrics you’re working from. Volume and duration of major incidents Volume of failed changes The list could go on.

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Workamajig

JUNE 7, 2018

Every project has some risk of failure. This guide on project risk management will help you understand and manage risks better. If there is one thing you can be certain about in project management, it's this: Every project carries some risk. In this guide, I'll share X critical tips for acing project risk management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2020

I won’t forget presenting at the APM conference in 2008 where I spoke about how the rest of business worked in comparison to how project managers worked, and why we should be embracing technology and social media tools. And less on following rigid processes. Collaboration tools. AI and Big Data. Stakeholder engagement. Thankfully.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

They let you know whether you can go overspent or what risk mitigation actions are the right ones for this point in the project. It was a much smaller group, and focused on strategic decision making instead of day-to-day problem solving and risk management. Risks and issues. They should help guide you to project success.

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Governance Government Risk Management Technical Review 358

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. 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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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 15, 2017

A popular toss off aphrase in some agile circles is process reduces agility. In this domain today, Agile processes are the basis of engineering those systems. IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW ACQUISITION PROCESS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS. IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW ACQUISITION PROCESS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Managment Processes. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008. Risk Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2016

In this article I will give you a few tools to help you facilitate the process and direct your team’s efforts and energy in the right direction. The Group Decision Process. Making a decision as a group is a 3-step process: Deciding whether you need your team. It’s an edited extract from his book Risk Happens!

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Underperforming Technical Team 2008 Energy Consulting 150

Epicflow Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

The survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit shortly after the global financial crisis of 2008 has revealed that effective project management has helped business organizations to maintain their competitiveness during the recession. If there’s only one bottleneck, they will only multiply when the number of projects increases.

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Epicflow Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

Understanding the success criteria makes it easier to recognize possible threats to the project flow and in such a way minimize risks. They involve the application of innovative technologies, which creates additional risks and challenges. They are vulnerable to risks, including cyberthreats. . Process success .

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Aerospace Technical Review 2008 Defining 52

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves , Daniel Galaorath and Michael Evans , Auerbach, 2006. Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Projects, Products, and Processes , Richard Stutzke, Addison-Wesley, 2005. IT Risk Management. Let's start with some books.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 1, 2016

Sure, we did our best muddling through the process with complex spreadsheets that were out-of-date as soon as they were built. We didn’t really realize it at the time, but we built and launched the company using many of the concepts that Eric Ries later elegantly defined in his 2008 book The Lean Startup. See how we do it.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Meanwhile, some ideas have gained buzzword status in the process, causing the occasional collateral damage along the way. This core agile product creation process is agnostic to the product delivery framework, be it Scrum, XP, or any other framework. Think of “MVP.”). Download for free : The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide.).

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 8, 2018

When gaps in performance, benefits shortfalls, unanticipated cost, schedule, and performance variances, faulty products, or any undesirable outcome, blame the process, not people. 1] Apollo Root Cause Analysis: Effective Solutions to Everyday Problems Every Time, 3rd Edition, Dean Gano, Atlas Books, 2008. [2] IT Risk Management.

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2008 2011 Manufacturing Estimate 34

PM Times

APRIL 7, 2021

It will discuss why the Core IT Complexity model is a good approach for most IT organizations and why it is important to determine project complexity as an ongoing and integral part of the Change Management and Risk Management process. It can also indicate potential risks to existing projects. Introduction. Kiridena, S.

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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. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Loss of control creates risk of failure. Compensate for cost variation by including risk reduction metrics. Alleman, "Product & Process Development Kaizen for Software Development, Project, and Program Management, LPPDE, Denver Colorado, April 2008. [5] Embrace objectivity. Proactively Experiment to Improve.

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Agilemania

MARCH 22, 2021

With traditional plans, you’ll always have the risk of delayed product delivery. It gained popularity post-financial crisis in 2008-09 and is still a new approach for many organizations. That means you can’t manage any last-minute changes without affecting the work process or results. Development process.

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MPUG

MARCH 28, 2021

Best Practices : It’s better to send information to too many people than too few, suggests Ron Taylor, founder of the Ron Taylor Group and PMI’s 2008 Leader of the Year. For another example, if a project is going to change how processes in your organization are going to work, you can begin to tout the benefits of the changes.

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Planning Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Executing 90

Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

They are not the same, the processes of decision making are not the same. Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty. These behaviors are by their nature intractable to standard project management processes.

2002 34

2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 34

Teamweek

JUNE 8, 2021

We’re going to dive deep into the state of the current graduate market, analyse the key challenges facing businesses right now before looking at ways you can improve your end-to-end graduate recruitment process. We only have to look back to events such as the 2008/2009 economic recession to confirm this trend. The Sourcing Process.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 28, 2020

The mechanical perspective draws attention to the structure and processes of organizations. In the end, the internal logic of the mechanical perspective rests on checklists, managerial plans, rules, processes, and numbers. From the mechanical perspective, change is defined in terms of modifications to structures and processes.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

They are not the same, the processes of decision making are not the same. Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty. These behaviors are by their nature intractable to standard project management processes.

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2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 28

Leankor

AUGUST 20, 2020

In 2008, Software as a Service (SaaS) began to become a norm. Many staple desktop programs also began moving to the cloud environment and the rising risks associated with VPNs coupled with the need to accommodate the traveling and remote workforce began to sell corporations on the cloud even more so.

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Telecoms 2008 Risk Management Construction 36

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. The CoU is a build-to paradigm, where measures of the program's performance cumulative to date is used to inform the risk for future performance.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

Velociteach

MARCH 20, 2023

In this unique project story, John Holmes explains how he navigated the selection process and became the exclusive supplier of turfgrass for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. We didn’t invent the process, but we somewhat perfected it. And we’ll get into that process, sure, in a little while. And we set off, took off running in 2011.

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Logistics Transportation 2022 Governance 52

Project Management Essentials

MARCH 31, 2019

This metric is attributed to Hammer and Champy’s 1993 classic, “Reengineering the Corporation” and is reinforced by a 2008 McKinsey survey of executives. Force-fitting your organization into a generic blueprint may increase the risk of failure and disappointment. Planning is a Process, Not an Outcome.

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2008 Agile Initiating Executing 40

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. Remember Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. IT Risk Management. From his article in an IEEE magazine often quoted by No Estimates advocates. .

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Root Cause is the fundamental initiating cause on a causal chain leading to a failure of a process which results in a recurrence of the problem. Root Cause Analysis is a systematic documented approach to arrive at the true Root Cause of the process problem. What factors lead to software project failure?” 02163, May 8, 2014.

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Don't toss out the notion that reducing risk and uncertanty and all other performance measures doesn't follow the plan. . Armour, Communications of the ACM , March 2008, Vol. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Wallshein, Ph.D. Thesis, George Mason University, 2010. "An 37–48, 2007. . Related articles.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Unanticipated technical issues with alternative plans and solutions to maintain effectiveness.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Unanticipated technical issues with alternative plans and solutions to maintain effectiveness.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. This is done by active risk management, through probabalistic decision-making.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Wrike

AUGUST 6, 2014

As a more recent PM methodology, the term “lean startup” is credited as first appearing on Eric Ries’ blog in 2008. Startups fail because they don’t create a process to measure progress , learn from mistakes, and improve for the future. Build-Measure-Learn. Finding your MVP is not the end of the Lean PM.

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Lean 2008 Energy Initiating 37

MPUG

DECEMBER 23, 2020

And welcome to today’s MPUG webinar, the Project Recovery Process. This was a project recovery process. And so that’s what I’ve done is I’ve put together that process. So basically what I did is I put together a three-step process. Kyle: Hello everyone. Do how to recover a project?

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PMO Construction Development Team Review Executing 52

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 1, 2020

Since 2008, ProjectManager.com has worked to transform the project management industry. It also allows users to create templates that they can use to save time and standardize critical processes. When you’re looking to expedite the project planning process, TeamGantt makes it possible. ProjectManager.com. Timesheets.

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