The IIL Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Stress and burnout have been recognized as serious project management problems for years, but until recently companies have been reluctant to face the problems head on. 2014), and Jugdev et al., Some project managers thrive on stress and seem to avoid burnout. We all have days where we feel stressed out.

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International Institute for Learning

JUNE 2, 2022

Rubin Jen has been in the project management field for over 23 years, spanning aerospace, engineering, telecom, software development, outsourcing, consulting, not-for-profit and government sectors. He has worked with companies such as Bombardier Aerospace, Celestica, Accenture and the Ontario Government.

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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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The Lazy Project Manager

JUNE 22, 2017

If you think about CEO’s being most often fired for mismanaging change then it is a ‘no-brainer’ you would have thought if your portfolio is a significant one and – based on Challenge 1 – Invest in the right portfolio management – it is often more significant than you might think (see previous blog). Reports to the executive team.

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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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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

“A Taxonomy of an IT Project Failure: Root Causes,” Walid Al-Ahmad, Et Al, International Management Review, Vol. 02202, The Aerospace Corporation, 30 May 2014. 02163, May 8, 2014. Schedule Compliance Risk Assessment Methodology (SCRAM) Combined Process Reference Model and Process Assessment Model, Released Version 2.0,

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 28, 2020

The recent UK Government’s enquiry into the management of major projects was cut short by world events, but the interim report and oral evidence make for interesting reading. [1] And of course, for our projects and our organisations, we don’t have Governments to bail us out. Risk Must Be Factored in At Every Stage.

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Digite

JUNE 28, 2017

Each interaction has been an opportunity of learning; each event we have attended and many times sponsored, we have better understood the nuances of focusing on flow in systems to enable not just greater agility, but better risk management, dramatically improved predictability and greater throughput/ reduced time to market.

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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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Meisterplan

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Traditionally, hospitals operate through highly formalized approaches to project management. The strict adherence to traditional project management makes it difficult for hospitals to even consider other types of project management, particularly the Agile method and Agile project portfolio management.

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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.

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Ron Rosenhead

MARCH 15, 2016

. · Neither TfL nor Bombardier’s management teams were up to the task of managing the programme. · On this programme, a culture seems to have grown whereby TfL’s management was only interested in presenting good news. The Assembly experienced this first-hand. Optimistic planning bias strikes again?

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JULY 18, 2019

Mr Nieto-Rodriguez has been recognised as the world’s leading champion of project management and founder of a global movement that has transformed the tactical topic of project management into one of the central issues in the CEO’s 2020 agenda. My Project Life. But What is a Project? In ‘But What is a Project?’

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Wrike

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Bimodal IT is a concept that was first introduced by leading global IT research firm Gartner in 2014. It is the practice of managing two distinct work modes concurrently – one mode focused on predictability and the other on exploration. Mode 2 is often conducted using the Agile project management framework.

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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.”.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. Armour, Communications of the ACM , January 2014, Vol. Modern Project Management: A New Forecasting Model to Ensure Project Success,” Iman Attarzadeh and Ow Siew Hock, International Conference on Future Computer and Communication, 2009.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. The CoU is a build-to paradigm, where measures of the program's performance cumulative to date is used to inform the risk for future performance.

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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. Related articles.

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Project Management Hacks

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It’s great to see that many articles in the archives continue to attract attention including a few from 2014. Project Manager Salary: 4 Key Insights To Earn $100,000 Per Year. Many readers are interested in earning more money as a project manager. Conflict Management Techniques From the PMBOK Guide. It’s true!

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. Define the risks - reducible and irreducible - to each Capability and their Features. What is the Value at Risk for your Project? So how do we get ±10% accuracy?

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. If we take Tim Lister's advice about managing risk while spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty, where is the adult supervision here? . .

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. And then some more resources for managing in the presence of complexity . Time to update the Don't Do Stupid Things on Purpose (DDSTOP) post. For software development starts with.

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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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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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Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2017

Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics , Gary Smith, Overlook, 2014. Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths & Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management , Jeffrey Pfeffer and Rober Sutton, Harvard Business School Press, 2006. Campbell, Prentice-Hall, 1974.

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Project Management Hacks

JUNE 16, 2016

In Ontario, a sharp decline in the number of automotive jobs prompted governments to provide billions of dollars to large car companies to boost the industry. the defenders in the 1529 Siege Of Vienna), it is a high risk move. The Low Risk Strategy For Career Change. high risk aversion)? More Industries Are In Crisis.

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MPUG

JULY 1, 2020

Hey listen, Kyle is going to manage the questions today. In terms of critical path analysis folks, those of you who’ve been involved in a little heavier project management, it’s the forward pass, but it’s not the only pass. In this case, we’re in 2014 in this example file. Kyle: Oh, that’s good.

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MPUG

JULY 17, 2020

Jim has been a part of the product management software business since 1985 and for the past 20 plus years with Critical Tools. It does task-planning, task-scheduling to manage your project utilizing a WBS chart, a network chart, and even Gantt charts just like you can in Microsoft Project. What it is, it’s a planning tool.

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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? Can we do this in time?

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MPUG

JANUARY 9, 2020

Tim is an accomplished speaker, consultant and educator, supporting the project management community for over 25 years. As the president and founder of Advisicon, Tim has written over 38 books on project management methodologies and technologies. Where we talk about the three tiers of project program and portfolio management.

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PM That Works

AUGUST 8, 2020

It's something that you know, I came to near bankruptcy in 2014. VoiceAmerica 12:48 Are you aware that 80% of project management executives do not know how their projects align with your company's business strategy? Are you aware that 44% of project managers use no software. And you'll see some things change in a hurry.

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MPUG

MAY 24, 2020

He is also a trainer with more than 10 years of experience teaching users how to use project management tools in a more productive way. We are a leading partner for project and portfolio management and work management perspective. So we have been nominated, Partner of the Year, in the year 2014.

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