The IIL Blog
JULY 26, 2023
Organizations and project professionals are embracing Agile tools and frameworks as they aim to increase the success of – and return on investment from – projects and other change initiatives. Quality and Governance Controls One of AgilePM’s underlying principles is to Never Compromise Quality.
Ron Rosenhead
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
I came across an interesting report published by the National Audit Office (NAO) – which exists to provide independent opinion and evidence to assist Parliament and hold government to account. It is called “Initiating successful projects” and was first published in December 2011. Summary Page 4).
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Kiron Bondale
DECEMBER 11, 2016
Such definitions might constrain the degree of flexibility which a project team possesses but will support governance and oversight through increased consistency and predictability. However this should not deter organizations from establishing a minimum set of qualifications to prevent this scenario from a 2011 Dilbert comic.
Scrum.org
APRIL 8, 2021
Governments, businesses and NGOs have aspirational goals. Pink, 2011, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Riverhead Books). Any initiative without a clear goal is futile. Grand ideas, visions are everywhere. The overarching purpose and its instances of it throughout the onion is the glue, which affords autonomy.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
AUGUST 31, 2016
Craig has set up a review website for project management training and there’s a philanthropic initiative on the side as incentive to get people to write reviews. I love Management of Portfolios (MoP), a book I co-authored which is the UK Government/AXELOS global best practice standard. Craig Kilford has the answer.
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. The causal chain of Actions and Conditions must be traced back to the initiating root cause. Mäntylä, 2011 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement.
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 5, 2018
This problem is visually depicted in the “cone of uncertainty” diagram which was initially conceived by Boehm. The cone says the effort estimate determined in earlier phases of the project, such as the definition of the initial concepts, might differ up to four times from the final one. 1, January 2011. "A
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