The IIL Blog

MAY 1, 2024

By Nagaraja Gundappa First things first – let’s define business agility: Business agility, alternatively called enterprise agility and organizational agility, is the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to market and environmental changes in productive and cost-effective ways according to PMI’s Disciplined Agile.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Newton’s third law is also true in the case of agile vs waterfall, where one sprang to life as a reaction to the other. The waterfall methodology is a process where project activities are broken down into linear phases. What is Agile? Even though agile is popular, the history of agile is in its infancy.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 1, 2024

Kanban is a very versatile methodology that can be used by any team that needs to manage workflows , business processes or projects. For example, the kanban methodology can be implemented in manufacturing, software development, product management, construction and many other industries. What Are the Benefits of Kanban?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

If you’re working in software development, you know that the software development life cycle can often be frenetic. Product features and stakeholder requirements constantly change, and your initial product development plan might look very different as the project evolves. How does that fit into an agile project?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 1, 2022

Through this process of detailed examination, the change control board decides on the viability of the change request or makes recommendations accordingly. The change manager is responsible for documenting the change management process and the necessary plans to implement the change. Developing a Process for the Change Control Board.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2024

Jira is project management software designed for agile software development teams. Yes, Jira’s kanban view is one of its most popular features and software developers commonly use it for sprint planning. If you’re looking for software that offers more than two project management views, use ProjectManager.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 20, 2021

While agile is relatively new, it has made a big splash in the work of project management. It started in software development, but has since been adopted by other industries that have seen the benefit of agile’s iterative approach. Agile is more of an approach, and could almost be defined as a philosophy.

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Scrum.org

JULY 25, 2023

As Scrum.org trainers, we often come across common misconceptions from course attendees about Agile and Scrum. We tend to hear red flags of misalignment when we explore folk's current definitions and understanding of Agile and Scrum at the start of our courses. Agile eliminates the need for planning or documentation.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 31, 2019

More along the lines of project management, though, is the Agile Manifesto. Agile is a bit of a controversial topic in the field. Either way, agile offers a fast and nimble way to work that first benefited software development before expanding its reach to almost every industry. What Is Agile?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 1, 2020

Regular readers will know that I’m not at all experienced in formal Agile project management, but I know it is something that I need to know more about. Today I’m partnering with Eylean to give you an overview of three agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban. Agile Methods: The Basics. Agile is agile is agile?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2019

These days, it seems like everybody is all about doing things agile. Responding and incorporating customer feedback into products and processes requires self-organizing teams that are constantly tweaking what they do to be more efficient, where they can change regularly to meet new needs that pop up daily. How Work is Done in Agile.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. The name is apt, as the waterfall methodology is a process in which the phases of the project flow downward. Agile Methodology.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A test case is an essential part of software development to make sure a product or a feature is working properly. But there’s not just one test case in software development so we’ll also define the different types to give you a full understanding of this value software development process.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

If you want to be successful at Agile Transformation —especially at scale—you’ll need more than Agile Coaches teaching your teams the ceremonies of Scrum or how to do SAFe and LeSS. To be successful, your company will need an array of people to take on various Agile roles and responsibilities. Agile Coach’s Responsibility.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 7, 2020

They need direction, but if you’re too hands on then you can often stifle their process. An agile workflow can help. For a long time the agile framework influenced teams outside of the software development sector from which it originated. People are evangelical about agile. What Is an Agile Workflow?

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NimbleWork

MAY 1, 2024

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a lean management technique for process improvement that has its roots in the manufacturing sector. Value stream mapping can typically be used to improve any process where there are repeatable steps. Value stream mapping can typically be used to improve any process where there are repeatable steps.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 7, 2024

As the Agile project management framework reaches adoption maturity at lean, progressive and disruptive startup firms, many teams at established organizations are struggling to fully embrace the Agile project management framework at scale. How to migrate from Traditional PM to Agile?

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 28, 2018

Here are five ways spreadsheets make project management a more horrific process than it has to be. Spreadsheets don’t give teams commenting features and audit trails that are essential to tracking how information and processes change over time. When tools and processes become difficult to use, it’s human nature to invent workarounds.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Agile is a way of working that comes from software development. While the roots of incremental development methods of working stem back to the 1950s and into the 1970s, it wasn’t until 2001 that a group of software developers published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2022

First, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. ?. But speed is by far insufficient to be Agile at the organizational level. But speed is by far insufficient to be Agile at the organizational level. Optimize for Adaptability.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 1, 2024

In my quest for being at my best to serve, I have gone through accreditation processes to become a professional trainer in many of these. I have been trainer in PRINCE2® and PRINCE2 Agile®, in Management of Portfolios (MoP®) and Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O®), and in AgilePM®. All rights reserved. All rights reserved.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 27, 2024

The Agile project management methodology encourages organizations to empower teams with clear responsibility and authority, so they can work together to autonomously develop ingenious and innovative solutions. Much of the Agile mindset requires change from traditional ways of project management.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Are you curious about what facilitation is and how you can use it in an Agile team setting? Keep reading to learn more about Agile Team Facilitation and the role of the facilitator in promoting a culture of collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement within the team. What is Facilitation?

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

To meet these demands, many companies have adopted new ways to integrate development, operations, and other departments as well as use Agile and DevOps principles. But there are many misconceptions about Agile and DevOps not only in the general public but also within businesses that have adopted them.

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nTask

JANUARY 6, 2022

In today’s business world, the need to have a good process management tools is pivotal. In this blog, we have gathered the 10 best process management software reviews for you to choose the best pick for your company. However, let’s first see what process management is and the need to have process management software.

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Teamweek

JULY 2, 2020

Agile project management is more popular than ever. That’s because over 75 percent of organizations realize the value of agile methods for delivering projects. But, given the recent rise in remote work, managers are struggling to find agile project management tools that fit their needs. Agile Planning Tools.

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Agilemania

AUGUST 24, 2022

Is DevOps a subset of Agile? There is a common myth that Agile and DevOps cannot work together. But both these approaches work hand in hand to make sure that software products cater to the demands of the market successfully. Enterprise solution development can be managed effectively by combining Agile and DevOps.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 7, 2021

TL; DR: Essential Agile Failure Patterns — When Noise Interferes with Signal. When Scrum becomes an element of an agile transformation, the following three common essential agile failure patterns prove to be an exceptionally tough nut to crack for any Scrum Master. Is Agile a Fad or a Trend?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 28, 2021

TL; DR: The Lack of Agile Leadership Qualities — When Change Agents Don’t Act as Role Models. When Scrum becomes an element of an agile transformation, a lack of agile leadership qualities on the incumbents’ side may impede its overall progress significantly despite the best efforts of all other change agents.

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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. The project planning meeting is a proven mechanism to develop an effective project plan.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

To do so requires business agility. What Is Business Agility? Business agility is just as it says, a way for businesses to remain agile when markets fluctuate, as they have a tendency to do. Business agility then is an organizational method to help businesses adapt quickly to market changes.

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Scrum.org

MAY 13, 2024

Think of verification as the technical quality check phase in software development. It involves various activities like testing, inspection, design analysis, and specification analysis to ensure the software is being built correctly according to the predefined agreements, standards and regulations. What is Verification?

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The term “ agile product management ” means precisely what it sounds like. The goal is to develop product strategies and roadmaps in an elegant setting. It promotes an adaptable approach to product development and deployment, allowing firms to adjust swiftly to input and create products that consumers enjoy.

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International Institute for Learning

JULY 7, 2022

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). By Luigi Morsa. The most popular and pioneer methods, as highlighted by Conboy et al.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Insights from Bosch By Johannes Köber Agility, dynamic, and flexibility are trendsetting words, with good reason. Requirements and boundary conditions are constantly changing, long planning phases are often impossible, and products and solutions are developed in close contact with customers.

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Leading Answers

JULY 10, 2020

How does work from home impact our use of agile approaches? If co-location is no longer possible, can we still be agile? Yes, of course we can, and in many ways, now we need to be more agile than ever as we try new approaches, learn and adapt how we work. The Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles do not mention co-location.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Other project managers prefer a more iterative process, like scrum. Others still prefer forms of agile software development where they have room to adjust their project plan. That type of agile project management is called rolling wave planning or wave planning. Rolling Wave Planning vs Agile Sprints.

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