Remove Aerospace Remove Article Remove Process Remove SCRUM
article thumbnail

Applying the heuristics of “How Big Things Get Done” to adaptive delivery

Kiron Bondale

I have never had the opportunity to lead a megaproject (the term is typically used for those with a budget in excess of $1 billion), but over the last fifteen years I have read a number of the articles published by Prof. Scrum Master) or a product owner, relevant experience and knowledge are critical.

Aerospace 177
article thumbnail

The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

We have read books and journal articles on various project management topics. Private Sector Project Manager Selection The birth of modern-day project management is most frequently attributed to the engineering community, mainly aerospace and defense. By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D.,

Aerospace 147
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Agile Revolution in the Defense Industry

Scrum.org

Like the manufacturer of the JAS 39E Saab Gripen fighter, a handful of players are relying on Scrum to radically improve their economic competitiveness. How can Scrum principles be applied in the defense industry? Firehawk Aerospace 3D prints rockets and a solid form of fuel to launch them.

Agile 142
article thumbnail

The Growth of Assistant Project Managers

The IIL Blog

Skills Needed: The Early Years In the 1950s and 1960s, the aerospace and defense industry contractors were the heaviest users of project management and established many of the forms, guidelines, templates, and checklists that were later updated to become the standards for project management. During the 1980s, another form of APM appeared.

article thumbnail

Reflection and Takeaways on Agility from the SMC-IT 2018 Space Mission Design conference

The IIL Blog

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.

article thumbnail

Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

2009), include eXtreme Programming (XP) (Beck and Fowler, 2001) and Scrum (Schwaber and Beedle, 2002). By looking at an Agile process in the temporal development, we can imagine that a promising idea could be taken out from the ordinary process and then put back when it is considered mature to receive the needed refinement.

article thumbnail

WBS and Product Backlog: Siblings or Distant Cousins?

Leading Answers

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. The Scrum Guide defines a product backlog as “ an ordered list of everything that is known to be needed in the product. ”.

Aerospace 125