The IIL Blog

JULY 19, 2023

Also, the employee may be interfacing with other employees, including other project managers, that they never worked with before and might never work with again. In the early years of modern project management, most companies used a matrix management organizational structure for staffing projects.

2002 78

2002 2023 Leadership 2007 78

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Need up-to-date facts and figures for a project management report, article, or infographic? Browse this collection of project management statistics collected from studies and reports from the past five years. Benefits of Project Management. —1A. Project Management Methodologies. —1B. Project Management Best Practices. —1C.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

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. Daniels, Complex Adaptive Systems, Procedia Computer Science, 20 (2013), pp.

2014 45

2014 Aerospace 2011 2013 45

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).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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.

2003 46

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 6, 2016

I’ve been following Jerry Ihejirika’s project management blog for a while now, partly because he’s interesting and writes beautifully, partly because I like to know what’s happening in project management in the rest of the world. I’ve supported (in a small way) his Project Management for Africa initiative.

2015 172

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

One of our clients, a retired USAF Col Program Manager at an NNSA Weapons Testing Site has a statement that is applicable here: If you lack academic basis and validated experience, your advice is simply unsubstantiated opinion without any basis in fact or principle. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.

Estimate 40

Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Dr. Joel Carboni talks about Sustainable Project Management, and the goal to achieve a stated objective while considering the project outcome’s entire lifecycle to ensure a net positive environmental, social, and economic impact. We’re talking about Green Project Management.

Sustainability 98

Sustainability Underperforming Technical Team Construction Certification 98

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Tanilkan, Hans Gallis, Anette C. Lien, and Siw E.

Estimate 64

Estimate 2006 2005 2013 64

Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method. Anderson best articulated its application to software development, in 2013, in the foundational book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, and its adoption hasn’t been as universal as Scrum’s during the early days of Agile software development.

Agile 110

Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 110

Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering provides an approach to making the decision about what's in the ConOps and its format based on some Systems Engineering analysis of criteria: Program risks - reducible and irreducible uncertainties that create these risks. IT Risk Management. What's our competition?

2014 38

2014 2013 2012 Engineering 38

Project Management Hacks

AUGUST 4, 2016

Leigh Espy, FedEx Project Manager. What is like to work as a project manager? In today’s article, you will hear directly from Leigh Espy about her journey into project management success at FedEx. In 2013 , the company delivered 1.5 This led me to a project coordinator position in local government early in my career.

2013 28

2013 2003 Technical Review 2010 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.

Software Review 34

Software Review Technical Review Estimate Software Developers 34

Appfluence

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Here they characterized the executive coaching terrain as a frontier that was “chaotic, largely unexplored, and fraught with risk, yet immensely promising.” In 2004, Stratford Sherman and Alyssa Freas published an article on executive coaching in the Harvard Business Review. Stanford Survey Says It’s “Lonely at the Top”.

Executing 28

Executing 2004 Technical Review 2018 28

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? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 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? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 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? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

MPUG

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tad Haas’ How Innovation & Portfolio Management Office Underpins Corporate Success webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. With over 20 years in both product and project management, Tad is a passionate technology evangelist and experienced change agent.

Innovation 40

Innovation PMO Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

MPUG

AUGUST 8, 2019

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Prosperi’s Easily Capture and Manage Ideas/Demands with MS Project Online Integration showcase session being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Then we always stand strong with our competencies, levels which are specific to project and portfolio management.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management Executing 40

MPUG

JULY 9, 2020

He’s a leader in the field of project management and is recognized as a Microsoft Project expert. You can imagine somebody new to your company that opens this up for the first time and sees all these tasks and they’re wondering, “I wonder what the process is I should follow. We’ll go ahead and begin.

Initiating 52

Initiating Software Review Application Development Risk Management 52

PM That Works

AUGUST 22, 2020

So yeah, so we we filmed in the state Summer of 2013 and we're getting we're getting back there in the company's history and then we aired in the spring of 2014. VoiceAmerica 12:26 Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with their company's business strategy? So I love shark thing.

Leadership 40

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Executing Sustainability 40