The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Agile A flexible and dynamic approach to project management that allows for iterative updates during defined time blocks, which allows for incremental value. Agile Manifesto The fundamental document that outlines the values and principles of Agile project management. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g.,

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Planview

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, many digital transformation initiatives struggle to deliver the expected financial value, with more than half lagging behind original estimates, according to a Gartner survey of CIOs. This greatly influences the plan’s execution and determines to what degree targeted outcomes can be achieved.

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

Define project timelines: Project charters include an estimated project schedule for the project to be completed. For example, a project focused on developing new software may have limitations that exclude developing new hardware, which would require a separate and expensive undertaking.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

Estimate task time and effort. How do Agile teams create a project schedule? What is the best project scheduling software to use? Planio: Best for teams of all sizes (Agile and traditional). At a minimum, you should know what type of person you’re basing your estimate on. Look for task dependencies.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Agile Project Management. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Integrating Agile Software Development with Earned Value Management , College of Performance Management, IPM Workshop, 2015.

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Leading Answers

MAY 1, 2020

Neither black nor white, predictive nor agile, project managers are increasingly finding themselves in the gray area of hybrid project management. In project environments, the use of both predictive approaches and agile approaches results in a hybrid approach. Gray areas occupy the transition from one world to the next.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

There's a popular phrase in some parts of the agile community that goes like this. Software development is a Value Creaton activity, but Value cannot be determined unless we know the cost to produce that value and when that value will be available for use by those who of paid for that Value. This is the foundation for estimates.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This post is for anyone who wants to inspire, change or influence others through their efforts as professionals, with emphasis on the latter. Perhaps you’ve read many blog posts about how horrible SAFe is, or how useless estimation is, or what the optimal size of a team is. What is the optimal size of a team? So where do you find it?

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Victorine Ghobeira , a Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager at Dataquest, says that “preventing a lack of resource starts when defining and estimating activities and leads to creating a realistic schedule. Donato Piccinno , a Project Manager at DXC Technology, advises to “measure and improve clarity, unity and agility.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 2, 2017

It's popular in the agile community and especially in the #Noestimates community to denigrate Taylor for his Scientific Principles of Management. Taylor would turn in his grave if he saw how little his work ha (has) influenced the function where it matters the most: Management # Agile. have actually read Taylor?

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Prepare a Business Case : Outline the reasons for undertaking the project, including the estimated costs, timelines, benefits, and risks involved. This should include cost estimates, resource availability, and technology assessments. Prioritize : Classify stakeholders based on their influence and interest in the project.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

Throughout this, I will try and touch on traditional, agile and hybrid as a way of saying they’re all the same, but they’re all very different. It is taking both traditional waterfall and agile and pushing them together into a project or a program. You can’t influence that project.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? 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. Estimation of Long?Term (Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ? 255, April 2010.

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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. requires making estimates) ? Kwak and J.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Join more than 145 peers from May 27-29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. Remember, “Agile” is a mindset, not a methodology.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Describe those aspects of the physical environment, safety, security, and privacy that exert influence on the operation or operational environment of the proposed system. Can All This Formality Have Any Use in Modern Software Development? Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2023

Even if a team is driven by value, agility is compromised when validation and value realization take excessively long. While Agile embodies a mindset defined by specific values and principles, it isn't tied to any particular framework or practice. Evolve everyone who touches the product or influences product delivery in any way.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

Initially coined by cognitive psychologist Lee Ross (1977), it happens when people underestimate the influence of the situation on the behavior of others while overestimating the influence of their personal traits and beliefs (Berry, 2015). When teams estimate work, hearing an initial estimate is likely to “anchor” further estimates.

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Planio

JANUARY 16, 2023

Plan in an Agile way. 5 tips for building influence and advancing your career. Agile templates. In this guide, we’ve collected the best project management tips for new project managers - from what skills to focus on to how to get settled in a new role, run projects, and build your influence. 5 tips for proving your value.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Someone from inside will already have connections and informal influence that will help you navigate change as the project management office goes through the creation process and the growing pains that follow. There are many choices… with two being traditional waterfall and agile? If agile, will it be Kanban or scrum?

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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. Estimating has not changed.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21. By the way, the pure conjecture that agile enables late changing requirements to not have a significant impact on the cost and schedule of the development project is completely lacking any testable evidence outside of personal anecdotes of agile advocates.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies 8. Updating project management software to keep their team on track 9. But there’s a problem.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Scrum/Agile) are more suitable to deal with complex problems because they are more attuned to our cognitive abilities. This will affect all estimates and predictions. This will affect all estimates and predictions. waterfalls) are very likely to fail.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 25, 2017

Project teams transitioning to Agile can often struggle with project roles and the overall team structure. Transitioning to an Agile team is a change in mindset, team organization, and the team’s culture. Who sets the priorities for the software developers? Who sets the priorities for the software developers?

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MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tim Runcie’s Agile Series Part 1 webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone and welcome to today’s MPUG training series, part one, Understanding and Incorporating Agile Project Management. It’s not all or nothing.

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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

You get the word: “We are going AGILE!” Software development is going to adopt Scrum as its operating approach to developing software. New items are added to the backlog by the product owner as they are identified and placed in the backlog according to the product owner’s estimate of their priority.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 11, 2024

Whether you are using a waterfall approach or an agile approach, effective planning is crucial to project success. Today, the WBS remains a fundamental tool in project management, with applications across various industries and methodologies, including software development. What is a WBS?

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Techno-PM

JUNE 5, 2023

In Agile development, an epic is a large, high-level user story or a group of related user stories that represents a significant feature or functionality in a software project. It is a way to organize and manage work in Agile projects, particularly in frameworks like Scrum. What is an agile epic?

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Planio

APRIL 3, 2020

In the most basic terms possible, a risk management plan is a document used by project managers to identify potential risks to the project, estimate the impact and the probability of them happening, and then define responses. You can blame cognitive biases (mental shortcuts that influence our thinking) for this problem. Management.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Project Management (#APM). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing our theme of helping Agile teams understand the Kanban Method, so they can effectively adopt it for their improvement efforts, I am again honored to publish a guest article by another great friend of ours – Dave White. Value-system Influences. Both are heavily influenced by value-systems. Introduction.

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MPUG

MARCH 18, 2021

Jeff is currently the lead course developer for Edward’s Performance Solution and oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. With that said, I’d to welcome you back, Jeff.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We did an extensive analysis of various factors that influence waterfall project management. This helped us to simplify how nTask project management software can be used for solving such issues. What Dr. Royce was describing was a flawed model for software development as he argued for a model with multiple iterations or runs.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp.

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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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. For software development starts with. Even with clear requirements?—?and

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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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things.

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