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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

It developed the just-in-time delivery model, which freed up working capital. Companies innovate and develop new products. They quickly abandon “bad” ideas and pursue valuable ones. Their teams are more productive, creative, and innovative. At regular intervals, teams review their performance and identify ways to improve.

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Project Management and Artificial Intelligence: Bring It On!

The IIL Blog

Regardless, most schedules are poorly constructed, and half of the projects are delivered late. SmartPM is a construction schedule analytics tool that grades the schedule and identifies gaps and potential issues. However, the project manager, resource managers, and team members would still be required to review and validate the plan.

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5 Reasons Engineers Need to Develop Project Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

Project Management Institute’s (PMI) 2016 report The High Cost of Low Performance: How will you improve business results? cited that $122 million was wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance. The reason should be obvious: project team members and stakeholders are humans or groups of humans.

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Project Success: Implementation AND Adoption

The IIL Blog

The development team was devastated. In my consulting practice, I see development teams struggling with their users. A primary reason is poor stakeholder engagement. Poor alignment with project objectives and expectations. Develop mitigation strategies. This experience is not unique.

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Improve Your Project Schedule

International Institute for Learning

Even with these powerful tools, only about half of all projects are completed on time, as reported in the PMI Pulse of the Profession.® These tools were developed in the 1950s to manage the U.S. Construction projects should fulfill these assumptions. Lean-Agile teams often use Kanban to prioritize, organize, and manage work.

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How to Develop the Essential Skills to Be a Project Manager

Wrike

One important note: In addition to the technical competencies we’re dishing out, project managers will also need to develop at least some basic subject matter expertise in whatever industry they’re managing projects. Develop this skill. Develop this skill. Develop this skill. Develop this skill.

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Emotional Intelligence

International Institute for Learning

The client is annoyed you are late, and that your team is not unified. Do not worry if they are bad or unrealistic. Bad outcome and low probability of success—avoid these. So how do we construct a solution where you and your colleague both feel good and look good in front of the client. Alan Zucker, PMP, PMI-ACP.