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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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. Most organizations started their Agile journey with one of the frameworks mentioned above, and Scrum is the most popular one. Scaling Agile Frameworks.

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Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Scrum has been around for a while, they say. The Scrum Guide holds the definition of Scrum, they say. The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? What else happened along the road to the way that Scrum is defined and represented?

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Today, we at Agilemania are proud to share that we have become a Scaled Agile Gold Partner. Why Scaled Agile Framework? It is the Framework of Choice for Leading Organizations to scale agile. The year 2011 saw the Arab Springs and that sent shock waves throughout the world. Road to Becoming a Scaled Agile Gold Partner.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The year was 2011 and there was a pressing need for a scaling framework that could help large organizations design efficient systems to build enterprise level products/solutions to cater to customer’s rapidly changing needs. He introduced the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). SAFe is based on following 10 Lean-Agile principles-.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2022

Of course, this list changes with the markets, but if you compare that to 2011, the list is 60% different. Scrum, agile thinking, modern software development working practices are synonymous with Digital Technology and have evolved out of the fundamentally different characteristics of the opportunity presented by technology.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 1, 2022

Some find the process of creating them “childish” or “a waste of time”. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. You can observe implicit coordination in Scrum teams when you look at how work moves across a Scrum board, or on- and of the Sprint Backlog.

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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. Scrum, Kanban, even eXtreme Programming are used, guided by higher level directives like the National Defense Authorization Act Section 804 which says.

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Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

Agility should no longer be a new term for most project managers. High flexibility, adaptability and increased communication are just a few of the benefits that have led to significant improvements through the introduction of agile work processes in organizations. So agility in itself is nothing new for many companies.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2019

The first part contains my personal journey in becoming a Scrum Master, the second part includes recommendations for new Scrum Masters. Part 1 — Becoming a Scrum Master. Nine years ago I changed my title from Project Manager into Scrum Master. Do you have any recommendations for my Scrum Master journey?”.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

It was circa 2011 when Dean Leffingwell decided to conceptualize the Scaled Agile Framework. SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps. You need business agility. Let’s get kickstarted.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 8, 2021

The Sprint Goal should be discussed each day at the Daily Scrum, it is ambitious but realistic as well as specific and transparent. . Having urgency is a great motivator and starting point as shown in John Kotter’s 8-Steps process. . . Figure 5 The 8-Steps Process for Leading Change* * [link]. Table 2 Goal instances comparison.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

Another article written more from an Agile Practitioner’s perspective is RGP’s How Business Agility Helps You Thrive in the Age of Disruption. Brown, Director and Agile Coach at the Hartford Insurance. Business agility mindset begins with a mental shift. I recommend both pieces as must-reads.

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Artificial Inteligence Agile Cadence 2011 59

Henny Portman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

(article) Project creatures that accelerate and enhance a portfolio of projects (article) Podcast: Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 (article) My “Bird’s eye view in the agile forest” article translated in Russian (article) PMWJ article: Are incremental and iterative the same phenomenon or not? Agile related books. Management.

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2020 Technical Review Prince2 2011 105

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. How that is supposed to happen is nowhere described in the Scrum Guide. Think of “MVP.”).

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Software Review Technical Review Cadence SCRUM 144

MPUG

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The following are examples of factors from the PMBOK Guide that lead to said project’s creation: Business process improvements. Even if you do not have defined model in place, you probably have some processes that could be used as part of your selected methodology. Contains consistent and repeatable processes. Customer request.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

The paper Agile Base Patterns in the Agile Canon , Daniel R Greening, 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences is an important contribution to the discussion of agile at scale in organizations beyond 5 developers at the table with their customer. The Agile Cannon is composed of 5 elements.

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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. We’ll explore the scrum methodology in-depth, but before that, let’s start with a simple scrum definition. Scrum Values.

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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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Scrum.org

APRIL 16, 2019

The comparison between Kanban and Scrum obviously comes up often when we're talking to teams, especially in the context of Professional Scrum with Kanban. If you look at the Agile Manifesto , you can find "The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams". To Team or not to Team? Mixing it up.

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Initiating 2011 SCRUM Software Review 121

Digite

JANUARY 7, 2018

Several good books have been written on Kanban and its application to various business processes, especially to Scrum, since David Anderson published his original Kanban “blue book”. hours, Published February 2nd, 2011 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform). Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business.

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Lean Software Review 2010 2014 79

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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Software Developers Software Development Estimate 2006 46

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Agile A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects in an iterative way with short bursts of work called “sprints” Though initially designed as a process for IT and engineering projects, it has since been successfully applied to other industries like marketing.

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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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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. 5, September/October 2011. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999. Risk Management Papers. “A

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

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. 5, September/October 2011. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Most organizations build structures and processes designed to prevent project failure. However, Muratgali Karimsakov , a Project Engineer at Karachaganak Petroleum, warns that lessons learned must be applied in the right way: “Unfortunately, the lessons learned process in many companies doesn’t work properly.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

What contexts are Scrum suited to, and which not? What if you end up applying a methodology like Scrum to a context where it isn’t suited, and people leave the company as a result? when everyone is pro-Scrum, or against SAFe or against estimation, or exclusively Scrum Masters? Is scaling always a bad idea?

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Planio

JULY 9, 2020

Agile Project Management out of the box. While task management app Wunderlist was released in 2011 and, after being acquired by Microsoft, was discontinued in May 2020. For some people, the process we just outlined for setting up Redmine might sound like a walk in the park. Agile Project Management out of the box.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 24, 2022

When people first look at the Scrum framework, they often see the roles and the events first. They see only the structure of Scrum; who wears the hats and when. But Scrum and the Agile methodologies it builds on are so much more. Scrum is a great example of a motivation framework. And that makes sense.

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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

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. This post is my attempt to do this. This post is part of our “in-depth” series. The need for fluid teams.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 12, 2022

2011 marked a new beginning in the era of large-scale software project management. Since then, Dean Leffingwell’s brainchild, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has become the popular emerging agile framework for business agility according to the 15th State of Agile Survey. . But what is SAFe? . Confused about SAFe?

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Added to this is the complex problem of managing multiple agile teams. The question still stands as to how to make an organization agile so that different functions within the organization can work together and not in silos? It was, for this reason, Dean Leffingwell decided to conceptualize SAFe® in 2011. Sounds too common?

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Workzone

JULY 18, 2022

Organization – Project management software organizes process, projects, and documents by keeping everyone on the same page on what needs to be tracked, how and where. No other software on the market offers such an extensive onboarding and training process included with their subscription. ” every day. Learn more.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

See how approaches like the Scrum Framework and Liberating Structures can prevent some of these biases by bringing in diverse voices and by validating your assumptions against reality. For me personally, it's one of the reasons why I like the Scrum Framework , as it gives guide-rails to help us think and validate our assumptions with data.

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Agilemania

APRIL 20, 2021

Agility at scale topics appears in most of the conversation nowadays, either to solve multiple teams coordination issues working on the same initiative, in the name of business agility, or enterprise agility. There are numerous frameworks those claim to solve or provide solutions for agility at scale.

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