The IIL Blog

JULY 26, 2023

The World’s Leading Framework and Certification for Agile Project Management By APMG International July 26, 2023 Agile’s influence on the project management industry continues to rise at pace. Since its introduction in 2010, AgilePM has fast established itself as the leading framework and certification for agile project management.

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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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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

If you’re looking for a step-by-step tutorial on how to make a Gantt chart in Excel, this article is for you. It helps project managers, stakeholders, and team members understand: A project’s roadmap , Important milestones along the way, Work dependencies, Required resources , And the risks involved. What is a Gantt Chart?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . Software Risk Management , Barry W.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 9, 2018

But what habits apply specifically to successful project managers? So, habits amplify how effective you can be and, therefore, how successful your project management practices are. Without these, I think you’ll fail to make any sort of worthwhile career out of project management – or anything much else.

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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. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups. Join us on March 9, 2021 , for a live virtual workshop to create actionable recommendations on how to deal with the outcome of a forensic Product Backlog analysis. However, stability also breeds self-interest at all levels, but particularly at the middle management level.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 2, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Project managers, have you ever felt overwhelmed by the unpredictable waves of the project environment? The terrain of project management is fraught with hidden challenges and opportunities lying in wait for the unwary. Be alert to risks so you will have ample room to take action. Because it is.

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Governance Government Influencer Technical Review 40

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 a simple project management framework that facilitates team collaboration on complex product and software development projects.

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SCRUM Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 341

Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Research has linked team cognition to higher performance and motivation (Mathieu et al, 2000), increased effectiveness (Kearny, Gebert & Voelpel, 2009), and generally explains a substantial amount of the variance (~19%) in the effectiveness of teams (De Church & Mesmer-Magnus, 2010). It takes time to develop teams.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Now To Risk Management. Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives.

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Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

And while viewers are helpful for, well, viewing the files, what you really need is way to integrate Microsoft Project (MPP) files into your project management solution so you can also update and collaborate on project data seamlessly from one person to another. For those projects that are being managed on a Mac, the problems are much worse.

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nTask

JANUARY 21, 2019

The question is how to achieve teamwork? Professionals do not come with a manual so how should Agile teams work in collaboration? Example #2: Broderick Brown – Oklahoma State Football Game 2010. This incident took everyone back, particularly at how swiftly Brown made hold of the opportunity.

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Project Pulse Journal

MAY 20, 2024

Malinawan, PMP They say a project manager spends 90% of their time on project communication. Yet, project managers struggle with keeping all stakeholders on the same page, leading to miscommunication that delays even the most meticulously planned projects. Ready to revolutionize project communication management? By: Meredith G.

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Communications Management 2005 2008 Technical Review 52

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Managment Processes. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Top Habits of Successful Project Managers. The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of Performance Management. Flawless Execution.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2022

In 2010 I started my first assignment as a Scrum Master. In this blog post, I give an overview of the Scrum Master role, describe how the role embodies 6 stances, and explain why I don’t consider servant leader and manager valid stances anymore. How does Scrum help you navigate complexity?

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We did an extensive analysis of various factors that influence waterfall project management. This helped us to simplify how nTask project management software can be used for solving such issues. Waterfall is a popular SDLC project management model. What Do You Need to Know about Waterfall Oriented Project Management?

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Software Review 2019 Development Team Review Technical Review 97

Leading Answers

MAY 11, 2020

What can we look forward to seeing in the world of online learning for project managers? The period from 2005 to 2010 brought YouTube, Twitter and iPhones. LMS (learning management systems) evolved to become LXP (learning experience platforms). The popularity of YouTube how-to videos is living proof of the format.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 28, 2020

Although this may seem obvious, we often still understand organizations, and how the people in them work, from this perspective. The idea of the organization as a machine has become so ingrained and pervasive in management practices and theories in the past fifty years, that it is hard to even be aware of it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 13, 2016

Project managers establish and foster workplace behaviour expectations through their own leadership values and actions. Command and control project managers were often revered and feared. Project managers who choose a bullying leadership style get results predominantly through dominance, fear and negative reinforcement.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 2010 Energy 150

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 20, 2016

Project managers establish and foster workplace behaviour expectations through their own leadership values and actions. Command and control project managers were often revered and feared. Project managers who choose a bullying leadership style get results predominantly through dominance, fear and negative reinforcement.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 2010 Energy 150

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. One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

The reason for this resource page is the lack of understanding of how to estimate, the urban myths about software estimating, and the fallacies that estimating is not needed, when developing software, in the presence of uncertainty, when spending other peoples money. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.

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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. Google will find these when there is no URL provided.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves , Daniel Galaorath and Michael Evans , Auerbach, 2006. Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum , Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, Addison Wesley, 2010.

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Software Developers Software Development Estimate 2006 46

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 25, 2024

The collaboration between product and project management can seem complex, but finding this balance unlocks your potential to manage essential aspects of the organization. Product Management Considerations: Aligning Projects with Market Demands Aligning projects with customer requirements and market demands is expected.

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Sustainability Development Team Review Innovation 2024 52

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Brown and his book The Handbooks of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management and my review of the same book. AHP can be used as a Value Management System to organize the criteria and assess trades off costs and benefits in considering total value. References . [1]

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Technical Review 2010 2014 Software Developers 47

ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 15, 2021

A lot of managers and project ideation teams face the same challenge. Moreover, you need to avoid the “just get thing done” mentality because what really matters is how you get your things done. In case you’re new to this project management methodology, then we’re here to help you out. How Kanban Works. How Kanban Works.

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Software Review Technical Review 2004 SCRUM 81

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Estimation is part of project management. . The most important estimates for the project manager are related to time and cost. . Monte Carlo simulation on projects examines all paths through the network of activities or all possible states of the project for the duration, cost, and risk that create impacts on duration and cost.

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Technical Review 2010 Estimate Software Review 43

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's say you're the project or program manager of a large complex system. We cannot escape these two uncertainties - reducible and irreducible - and must learn how to manage in the presence of these uncertainties. Maybe an aircraft, or a building, or an ERP system deployment. Abstracted from [3].

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Function Point

DECEMBER 8, 2016

However, retainers can be dangerous to the agency if they aren’t managed correctly. Here’s How to Avoid Being Bullied By Your Client. Writing it down and entering it into your project management software later is not going to cut it. Managing Time & Resources. Project Management Software Time Tracking.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2020

– And I was a project manager. – And you were a project manager in a different part of the organization. – Trying to figure out how to marry all that stuff together. . – [Mike] You were Director of Development. – I was the Director of Development. I was running a team in the e-bill space.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

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Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of John Owen’s showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, presented by Barbecana.

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Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 52

MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of John Owen’s showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, presented by Barbecana.

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