The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

AI is a branch of computer science that focuses on providing computer hardware and software with the ability to execute intelligent tasks with Generative AI (GenAI) learning and improving with each query. For over a quarter of a century, the Standish Group has tracked, reported, and improved software-intensive project success rates. [1]

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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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Moira Alexander

APRIL 24, 2017

Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is one of the biggest MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platforms available and offers many project management (PM) courses. Agile Software Development - goes over fundamental agile concepts to enhance your software development skills. Related Video.

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Certification Technical Review Lean Software Review 252

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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

During a downturn, this skill becomes particularly important as every business move is fraught with risks. Despite pioneering digital technology, Kodak's inability to pivot from film-based photography to digital saw the company filing for bankruptcy in 2012. And as these examples show, the result is rarely a happy one.

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Technical Review 2012 Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 147

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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Resource Guru

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This clash between expectations and reality quickly leads to project issues and failure, causing stress for everyone involved and putting you at risk of losing revenue, or even clients. Start dates and due dates for each activity. How is project planning different from project scheduling? Project team members.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2022

And does your Sprint Review consist of team members listing their individual accomplishments? They also tend to perform better (Evans & Dion, 2012), are better able to deal with stress and pressure (Salas, Driskell & Hughes, 1996). Psychological review , 57 (5), 271. Information and Software Technology , 48 (4), 235–244.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2019

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. There’s a risk of conflict between: The sponsor and users. Due to a difference of opinion about planning. You could say we go looking for trouble. That’s part of the job, though.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2016

This time last year I reviewed the trends in social and collaborative technology in the project management space: some of my predictions had come to nothing and it was interesting to look backward and hold myself accountable for what I said would happen. How long can we cruise on the coattails of project successes like London 2012?

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nTask

DECEMBER 29, 2020

These trends have left companies exposed to a variety of risks. Using a Business Continuity Plan to manage these risks is key to the survival of any organization in the face of these risks. Check it out: 16 Best Business Management Software to Use in 2021. 30 Best Time Tracking Software to Improve Team Productivity.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 20, 2024

Organizational Fit Tailoring enhances project management practices by aligning them with the organization's values , culture, and risk tolerance. A systematic review of available data and active input from the team is required here, emphasizing the need to leverage collective expertise and insights to determine development strategies.

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Governance Government Software Review Technical Review 52

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2019

But I do like the reframe that Amy Cuddy offers in her 2012 TED talk , which has garnered of 52 million views, as I write this. Even if some tasks fall behind, you can easily drag and drop the timelines to adjust due dates and reassign workload. The old and somewhat creepy saying is “fake it till you make it.” I don’t like this.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? This variation can be explained by the fact that initial concepts do not describe the final software system accurate enough.

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Workamajig

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

What is the adoption rate of project management software across organizations? PM software adoption remains low. As per Wellingtone's survey, only 22% of organizations use a PM software. PM software adoption is changing, slowly but surely. 77% of high-performing projects use project management software. Capterra ).

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nTask

DECEMBER 29, 2020

These trends have left companies exposed to a variety of risks. Using a Business Continuity Plan to manage these risks is key to the survival of any organization in the face of these risks. Check it out: 16 Best Business Management Software to Use in 2021. 30 Best Time Tracking Software to Improve Team Productivity.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 27, 2018

To this end, expenditures that are reviewed to ensure that a team will function optimally might include factors such as: Web-based platforms for collaboration, i.e., WebEx or GoToMeeting. Risk: Uncertainties that may be encountered in implementation. Resources: Number of participants, software, and systems required, facilities, etc.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

DA was developed in 2011 by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines and is based on Scott’s work at Rational Software and IBM. Dean Leffingwell released the first version of SAFe in 2012. Disciplined DevOps is the set of process blades enabling the continuous delivery of working software. Interestingly, Dean also worked at Rational.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. 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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nTask

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Obviously, in this fast-paced market, you are never going to perform all of these different processes by hand, and you need an incredibly effective project management software that takes care of these processes and activities for you and your team members. Manage tasks, issues, projects, meetings and risk, all in one place.

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Shipping on time, to specifications, and within budget might be meaningless if a competitor is shipping software that has a greater value to the market. It's suggested from observations, the Cone of Uncertainty (CoU) is not a valid model of how uncertainty behaves in software development projects. Laird and M. 37–48, 2007. .

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. What factors lead to software project failure?” All for the want of a nail.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 3, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. I’ve been here since 2012, currently assigned to Center for Medicare & Medicaid and working on continuity operations and pandemic planning, which is very timely.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Thesis, University of Southern California, August 2012.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. 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. Software engineering economics." Macroeconomics is not. .

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Runrun.it

JANUARY 23, 2020

It is well understood that the risk of digital disruption is high. As a mid-sized state run bank, DBS already had its hands full in 2019 due to new fintech startups offering exceedingly competitive solutions to traditional banking. More businesses means more possible solutions to existing problems. And boy did they succeed!

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Edmondson (2012) argues that dynamic teaming is important to share and encourage learning. This is also what inspired Edmondson (2012) in her academic work on “teaming”. They also tend to perform better (Evans & Dion, 2012), are better able to deal with stress and pressure (Salas, Driskell & Hughes, 1996). Bradley et.

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2023

Risks If the strategy is wrong or misunderstood, it can cause a high risk to the business as goals won’t be achieved. If individual tactics are misaligned, the risk to the overall strategy is small but not insignificant. If they take any longer, they risk morphing into unwanted strategies that detract from the bigger plan.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 18, 2018

Defensive programming consists of learning and using guidelines for software design and coding that tend to minimize the frequency and severity of problems in production. The day came when the software community more-or-less forgot about defensive programming. The Age of the Mainframe. And sleep, too. The Age of the Webapp.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

If we look at the Stacey Matrix adapted for software development, a complex domain is where there are more unknown variables that cannot be predicted and there is no definite path to reach the goal. In the movie Avengers (2012), The Mind Stone allows the user to control the minds of others and can control what they do.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations.

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Teamweek

JUNE 25, 2020

Incredibly, it took almost four years to launch it commercially in 2012. Here’s a review from SoftwareAdvice that sums up the frustration that teams have Asana. This Asana review on G2 , describes how frustrating it is to navigate across Asana’s features. While really powerful, Asana is not for everyone. Too Complex.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Project Management Software & Tools. 64% of organizations say they frequently conduct risk management. [6]. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Managing small, low-risk projects. Managing medium-size, moderate-risk projects. Managing medium-size, moderate-risk projects. Project Failure.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. For those of you who are PMPs, your activity code today is on the screen. Lewis’ and James Mills JR.’s You may watch the recording of this webinar at your convenience.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. There’s a risk of conflict between: The sponsor and users. Due to a difference of opinion about planning. You could say we go looking for trouble. Concept Phase.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 2012 Project Life Cycle 150

Resource Guru

JUNE 23, 2023

Between tabs, color codes, and comments, the time spent on admin is valuable time that could be spent (actually) enabling project success. Plus, the risk of human error is just far too great. We’re here to help you evaluate and choose the best software that will help enable growth at your agency. Here’s what to look for: 1.

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