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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

It traces its roots to Lean, which is also foundational to other modern management theories. Lean’s primary focus is delivering value quickly and eliminating waste. Toyota was a Lean pioneer. It developed the just-in-time delivery model, which freed up working capital. Lean is a set of principles.

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Project Success: Implementation AND Adoption

The IIL Blog

Project managers tend to focus their attention on delivering the application. The development team was devastated. In my consulting practice, I see development teams struggling with their users. A primary reason is poor stakeholder engagement. The responsibility often falls to project managers.

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Inspiring Women in Project Management: Pam Shergill

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this installation of the occasional series of Inspiring Women in Project Management, I’m interviewing Pam Shergill, Director of PS Management Consultancy. Pam and I talk about how she got into project management by ultimately making herself redundant, and how she manages to get two months off a year. By accident!

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Improve Your Project Schedule

International Institute for Learning

These tools were developed in the 1950s to manage the U.S. The plans will be more realistic, helpful and lead to happy customers and project teams. The level of detail and accuracy depends on multiple factors, including project duration, known and unforeseeable risks, and the effort expended on planning.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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. reducible and irreducible ? De Meyer, C.

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How to Develop the Essential Skills to Be a Project Manager

Wrike

Whether you’re brand new to the field or have been at this for a while, you’re not content to rest on your laurels — you want to push yourself to become an even better project manager. We’ll break down several necessary project manager technical skills and soft skills, and provide some actionable advice that you can use to step up your game.