The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

and Cynthia Snyder Dionisio, MBA, PMP We have all attended project management workshops, conferences, and symposiums. We have read books and journal articles on various project management topics. What we ended up learning was about the present state-of-the-art of project management and what the future might look like.

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Inloox

MAY 27, 2021

A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. In this article, we present 8 project management guidelines that help you deal with failures. self-help author who focuses on personal time management. However, it is the way you react in such situations that can make the difference.

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Epicflow Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

There are a variety of approaches and methodologies aimed to increase the effectiveness of managing projects and deliver better outcomes. In this article, we’d like to dwell upon the phase-gate process. What is a phase-gate process? What are the phases of the process? 1] Ideation. Scoping.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2024

Firehawk Aerospace 3D prints rockets and a solid form of fuel to launch them. Firehawk’s Terran 1 rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel Which components or processes could benefit from composability? Any change forces teams to wait for each other, while generating risks on the overall product quality.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

October 4, 2023 We take it for granted that, as time passes, the project management issues and challenges we had in the past have been resolved and the focus is on new project management problems. This is now happening because of the growth in project management applications. This is not always the case.

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Technical Review Aerospace Engineering Manufacturing 88

Epicflow Blog

MAY 31, 2022

In today’s changing and uncertain world, aerospace engineering companies are seeking the ways to design and develop new products faster and with less cost. So, every company that wants to stay competitive in the market must digitalize its processes sooner or later. . However, this process often comes with numerous obstacles.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Project management is no different. The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a nonprofit organization for those working in project management across the globe. As an organization, it offers training and certification in project management, and it reports regularly on industry trends. A History of PMI.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This range accounts for the many factors that could affect the pace at which adoption occurs, including regulation, levels of investment, and management decision making within firms [3]. Risk Management. Effective risk management has to be proactive. Human Capital Optimization. Active Assistance.

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

All companies desire to remain competitive and continuously improve their project management performance by becoming more efficient and more effective in the execution of their project management processes. The internal organizational units can also be responsible for evaluating external literature related to project management.

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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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Leading Answers

MARCH 3, 2020

However, they did not use the term “work breakdown structure” or WBS until 1962 when DoD, NASA and the aerospace industry published a document about PERT that described the WBS approach. E2: Do high-risk steps early – Prioritize the work based on risk.   [Note: This article first appeared on ProjectManagement.com here.

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Case studies on how agile methodologies have been applied to mission planning and how scrum has been used in spacecraft construction were discussed, as well as topics such as developing and delivering software, reliability and reuse of software, onboard processing, and communication. Representing Scrum, Inc.

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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. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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International Institute for Learning

JULY 7, 2022

We can say the Agile methods have well-interpreted the so-called Copernican Revolution in management. The Agile Innovation allows teams to launch new products quickly and at a lower risk than with traditional innovation practices (Kerzner, 2019). . How Does Agile Project Management support creative projects? Del Marmol, L.,

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Binfire

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

What is the best project management software for your team and your project? Is there a project management app that fits everybody’s requirements? The short answer is no, depending on industry, team size, project complexity, team’s experience and team size the requirements for project management software change.

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In the past 40-50 years, there has been a great deal of literature published discussing the pros and cons of matrix management as well as step-by-step instructions on how to make it work well. The new methodologies have forced us to revisit the challenges with some established project management practices such as matrix management.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Our topic is Increasing the Probability of Program Success Thorugh Continuous Risk Management. . The origins of this paper came about at a recent JSCC meeting here in Boulder, with local Aerospace contractors, the DCMA (Defense Contract Management Agency) and several government agencies (NRO and NASA). Schedule Impacts.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities.

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Scoro

APRIL 11, 2022

A good project management software will allow teams to organize and allocate tasks, track goals and possibly manage finances all in one workspace. Notion is a project management software that helps teams collaborate in effective work from different places worldwide. Here are 20 Notion alternatives for work management: 1.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2016

Here's an article, recently referenced by a #NoEstimates twitter post. The headline is deceiving, the article DOES NOT suggest we don't need deadline, but that deadlines without credible assessment of their credibility are the source of many problems on large program. Here's how to Manage in the Presence of Uncertainty.

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Epicflow Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

This article is inspired by the webinar featuring Epicflow co-founder Jan Willem Tromp and professor Mario Vanhoucke based on his latest book “The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”.

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Senior Executive Director for Project Management, IIL. So, why shouldn’t we do the same thing for project managers? This could be significantly more important to a worker or project manager than a simple handshake. Years ago, many aerospace and defense industry projects were managed using war rooms.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's say you're the project or program manager of a large complex system. The uncertainty is always there, it doesn't go away with specific actions in specific domains, or with the use of any tools, processes, or practices. Maybe an aircraft, or a building, or an ERP system deployment. Abstracted from [3].

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Epicflow Blog

APRIL 15, 2022

Aircraft engineering is a complex and constantly developing sector of aerospace and defense, where experts from various areas of technical expertise are involved. At the same time, it’s impacted by present-day trends and challenges of the aerospace and defense domain. . Let’s consider the key factors in the article. .

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NimbleWork

APRIL 11, 2024

The second required an understanding of government and public sector procurement process, benchmarking hardware and software systems and working with myriad vendors and computer system standards at a time, when no such systems or standards had ever existed.

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Technical Review Construction Healthcare Governance 52

NimbleWork

APRIL 11, 2024

In project management, effective planning is paramount to success. Among the myriad tools at a project manager’s disposal, the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) stands out as a foundational element, especially for traditional or waterfall projects. What is a WBS? Here are the 6 key elements of a WBS: 1.

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Project Pulse Journal

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Michael Shick, MSPM, PMP, CSM Are you overwhelmed with the nuances of risk management in your project? Every project manager and project team knows the importance of assessing risks , but doing it effectively and efficiently without getting lost in the maze of data is a challenge. That's get into it! Key Takeaways 1.

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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

One of the greatest sources of “headache” for a project leader, a project manager or, in an Agile environment, a Squad Leader, is to discover that some mistakes have been made. “The problem here was not the error, it was the failure of NASA’s systems engineering, and the checks and balances in our processes to detect the error.

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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. Agile Project Management.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

In casinos, the betting rules ensure the house wins (Eliminates Risk) over time. These uncertainties are also created by the naturally occurring variances in the underlying processes of the situation. . Aleatory Pertaining to stochastic (non-deterministic) events, the outcome of which is described using statistical processes.

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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. Adaptability is of little use if you don't know the boundaries of the technology, processes, and uncertainties of the problem. There was a banner campaign to get the message across.

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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. With what appears to be NO understanding of how to estimate, this author ignores the processes used in developing products or services in the presence of uncertainty.

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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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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 20, 2022

By Luigi Morsa , Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager, SII Engineering & IT Risk Management is the act or practice of dealing with risk. Risk Management is important because it is directly connected to the Project Success. Piney, presented at PMI® Global Congress in 2003 (Ref. [3]),

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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. 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. . 3, August 2012. 400-407, 2009.

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

According to a common and general definition, Team Management can be seen as the ability of an individual (manager) or of an organization to lead a group of people to accomplishing a task or common goal. Good management of a team means to do the best by and for the employees. By Luigi Morsa.

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