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Agile Revolution in the Defense Industry

Scrum.org

These striking innovations, which look like toys, are the facade of a profound shift in the industrial paradigm based on speed of change, open-source, decentralization, and composability. Like the manufacturer of the JAS 39E Saab Gripen fighter, a handful of players are relying on Scrum to radically improve their economic competitiveness.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

2009), include eXtreme Programming (XP) (Beck and Fowler, 2001) and Scrum (Schwaber and Beedle, 2002). However, today the principles of agile have spread to other corporate functions such as innovation. In other words, creativity is related to idea generation, innovation is about the idea implementation. Del Marmol, L.,

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Private Sector Project Manager Selection The birth of modern-day project management is most frequently attributed to the engineering community, mainly aerospace and defense. Client/Stakeholder Collaboration In the early years of growth, the aerospace and defense contractors were marketing- and sales-driven companies.

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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.

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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. Representing Scrum, Inc.

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2022 Online and In-Person Events for Project/Resource Managers and Industry Professionals

Epicflow Blog

January 28-29 — International Conference on Software Project Management and Project Scheduling (Australia) is expected to bring together leading academic scientists and researchers to share their experience and research results, discuss recent innovations, trends, and concerns in the field of software project management and project scheduling. .

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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. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.