International Institute for Learning

JUNE 22, 2022

Is there a dark side to agility? The approach many Agile “purists” will expound on is that you must do things a certain way, or if that way of working does not work, you have failed, and it’s your fault. The opposite of agile, thus agilists impose anti-agility practices termed, “agile fragility.”

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Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

For example, running a project in a long-standing, large organization usually involves heavier governance and oversight than that for a startup. The terms and conditions from contracts established between the performing and receiving organizations will also affect how the work is done. Individual.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

There's a popular notion going around the agile community that says. This, of course, is a violation of the principles of Managerial Finance and Microeconomics of software development in the presence of uncertainty and scarce resources. Software Project Cost Estimation .

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. It’s about creating business outcomes.

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Henny Portman

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ard-Pieter de Man, Pieter Koene and Martijn Ars wrote the book How to survive the organizational revolution – A guide to agile contemporary operating models, platforms and ecosystems. For each model you get a practical analysis, practical examples, enlightening case studies and a deep dive in one or more related themes (excursion).

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

You want to embrace Agile as part (or maybe all) of your Project Management practice. Which Agile Certification program should you follow? Classifying the Agile Certification Providers. I have also included the Axelos PRINCE2 Agile qualifications here. Tier 1: Principle Promotors of Agile Project Management.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

This first post is a follow-on from the posts Root Cause of Project Failure , Root Cause Analysis , Discovering the Root Cause - The 5 Whys , T urning Editorials into Root Cause Analysis , Observation Issues and Root Cause Analysis , Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Suggested Fix Can Be Effective. References .

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 21, 2024

Adaptive project management equips you with the agility to meet evolving demands and enhances stakeholder satisfaction through timely and relevant deliverables. Whether developing new software or launching a marketing campaign, this approach ensures that your projects are as adaptive as the project environment.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Be it monitoring and control, collaboration, stakeholders onboarding, change management, and governance methods, the problems only keep increasing. It was circa 2011 when Dean Leffingwell decided to conceptualize the Scaled Agile Framework. Software and IT teams delivering in an agile way alone isn’t enough.

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. To download: QRC (Leadership for agility, 200725) v1.0.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. These systems were designed and built incrementally and iteratively decades before Agile was even a thought for the authors of the Agile Manifesto. In our current SISoS world we call this a Unicorn Solution. .

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Agile Project Management. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Risk Management.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 7, 2020

The initial analysis carried out by the internal team was challenged by one of the other warehouse sites at the start because there was insufficient car parking space to support the additional employees. Software development projects, particularly the large, complex variety involving multiple stakeholders, are often prone to delays.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

Development or Implementation. Agile Methodology. The Agile project management methodology emerged in 2001, and it is still fast catching up and proving to be a vital tool in the arsenal of most modern project managers. How are Waterfall and Agile Framework Different? Pros and Cons of Agile Framework: Pros.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

Applications of Digital Project Management Skills IT and Software Development - Managing software projects, including updates and releases, requires acute data analysis and effective coordination of development teams. The digital landscape is very flexible, and adaptability is a must.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2019

One of the principles of the Agile Manifesto reads: “Simplicity – the art of maximizing the amount of work not done – is essential.” Consistency Between Lean and Agile Principles. Agile thinking is consistent with these principles. There are analogues in a software development/delivery organization.

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Leading Agile

MAY 19, 2021

The latest report on software development from the organization’s consultant, a Big 4 Firm, concluded that his organization needed more separation of duties. At a high level in my non-lawyer basic premise, Separation of Duties controls are to ensure changing the software is done with intent and validation for correctness.

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Governance Government Consulting Software Developers 62

Herding Cats

MARCH 3, 2017

Alistair Cockburn's talk on 21st Century Software development. . Pay attention the hoax of #Noestimates and most major misunderstandings of the Agile Manifesto and the 12 Principle.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 30, 2017

This assessment comes from research at the Institute for Defense Analyses (www.ida.org), where I sometimes work as a contractor in support of the Office of Secretary of Defense Performance Assessment and Root Cause Analysis. One notion in a governance paradigm is It's Not Your Money . Analytical Method for Cost and Schedule Analysis.

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nTask

JULY 5, 2019

As far as RUP is concerned, it is a framework for software development projects. Researchers have also developed AUP; Agile Unified Process , which is a different form of RUP. Agile simply focuses on slacking clutter and replacing it with simpler steps. He will do an analysis of pending and already performed tasks.

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MPUG

MAY 22, 2023

The first level is the Foundation level, which provides an overview of what citizen development is and includes what PMI calls “idea generation 2.0.” ” This is because citizen development projects require a hyper-agile approach, which moves even faster than traditional agile methods.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Much of the discussion around project management processes, especially around agile, and most especially around the misconceptions of Estimating as espoused by the #NoEstimates advocates, starts with the misuse of reductive reasons based on single factor analysis. Here's how it goes.

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

Establish project governance: Project charter templates help to identify key stakeholders and team members involved in the project, e.g., project sponsors, project manager, and team lead, indicating who is responsible for specific tasks and who has the authority to make decisions.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

There are not specific to Agile Software Development. This is connected to the Financial Plan for earning back the investment of the development. Agile teams, for the most part, are a fixed set of resources, so the spending plan is essentially Flat. Conduct Schedule Risk Analysis. Capture All Activities.

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Herding Cats

JULY 7, 2016

I work on Agile software development programs. Most everyone in Boulder Colorado works on Agile development programs. We meet once a month or so for coffee and talk about Agile. We have formal MeetUps hosted by local vendors - Rally, Scaled Agile, and other agile development shops.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This is the motivation for short work intervals found in agile development. . Using the Agile Methodology to Mitigate the Risks of Highly Adaptive Projects,” Dana Roberson and Mary Anne Herndon, 10 th Annual CMMI Technology Conference And User Group , November 5 – 8, 2012, Denver, CO. The probability of something happening.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk, and Rationality,” Paul Slovic, Melissa L. 3, March 2002.

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With these steps, effective and efficient project execution is within reach: Plan Analysis : Review your project plan meticulously. Plan Analysis To execute the Plan Analysis step, start by scrutinizing every detail of your project management plan. Encourage a culture where quality is everyone’s responsibility.

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Stakeholder Analysis : Consider the project's impact on various stakeholders and whether it meets their expectations or needs. Cost-Benefit Analysis : Conduct a thorough cost-benefit analysis to outline the expected expenses and the benefits that will accrue from the project. PRINCE2 is widely used in the UK government.

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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. Risk Analysis and Management,” Lester B.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2017

A common chant in the agile community is we focus on value. These include: Agility, Tailorability, and measures of a System Element’s coupling and cohesion. Governance principles provide guidance to institutionalize a process, including its continued assessment and evolution over time in support of the tangible system benefits.

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MPUG

APRIL 15, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Lead Course Developer for Edwards Performance Solutions, as such he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. ” Like, “What are we doing?”

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Before listening to any conjecture that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of Uncertainty for software development, please read these books. What are we looking for? Reading Materials.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? Little [8] makes the claim that agile methods don't follow the Cone - that is the uncertainty doesn't reduce as the project proceeds.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. We engineers should always keep in mind that software development is usually one part of many others inside the company.

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Wrike

JANUARY 15, 2019

We also know a project never goes according to plan, so every team must maintain a certain amount of agility to keep up with project shifts and delays. Both Scrum and Kanban fall under the Agile methodology umbrella, making them good frameworks for breaking down larger, complex projects into manageable chunks. staffpicks]. postbanner].

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