The IIL Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

By Alan Zucker Agile seems like a mystery to many. However, when we step back and inspect agile, we see that it follows common, recognizable patterns from our daily lives. Let’s explore how agile practices can be applied to this common predicament. It has an unfamiliar vocabulary and practices. Imagine it is Thursday evening.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results. If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. If your Agile isn’t helping you do that, then it’s not really Agile at all. First, how are we forming teams?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

Agile Fluency® Model is a fantastic model. With this model, you start seeing your journey as a series of paradigm shifts and stages toward higher fluency in Agile: The Agile Fluency model has been as an inspiration for us, when we were designing Org Topologies. Without defining value, no agile transformation is possible.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

TL; DR: Adapt How You Lead for Agile Success w/ Johanna Rothman — ACB21. Too many people say, “With agile, we don’t need no stinkin’ managers.” However, because managers create and refine the culture, modern managers create and refine the agile culture. Without modern management, any agile initiative will die.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 18, 2023

Sometimes a team is new to agile and just wants to know if they are on the right track. A blog article describing “fake Agile” may be resonating a bit too much for comfort. First however, I suggest examining the question itself, “Am I doing Agile right?” It turns out that “agile” isn’t really a process.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

TL; DR: Agile Transformation with ChatGPT or McBoston? I was interested in learning more about a typical daily challenge many agile practitioners face: How shall we successfully pursue an agile transformation? Or shall we embark on an agile transformation with ChatGPT providing some guidance?

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

So let’s have a look at some typical agile negotiation scenarios. ?? Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: Agile Verhandlungen – Das Leben ist Verhandlungssache; warum sollte Scrum anders sein? ? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 46,000-plus subscribers.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Project budgets are estimated by project managers and then approved by the project client or stakeholders. Leadership Skills Leadership skills refer to the ability to strengthen and guide a group of people to work together as a team and achieve a common goal more effectively. It’ll pay off in the long run.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

The creation process for an organization’s project strategy is in the hands of leadership and management. Leadership and stakeholders should follow the steps listed below as it’s the process by which a viable project strategy can be made. Who’s Responsible for Creating the Organization’s Project Strategy?

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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

AUGUST 29, 2021

According to the 15th annual State of Agile report, there has been a tremendous increase in the adoption of agile frameworks over the last year. Within software teams, agile adoption grew from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. . Agile beneath the Ice. . Resource managers do not know how to support agile teams.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? 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 if you recommend teams to stop estimation altogether and cause financial damage compared to when you wouldn’t have recommended this?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In a recent class, a student asked, “What are the common difficulties teams face when starting with Agile?” For Agile teams, the goal of the Scrum Master or Agile coach is to get teams through the first three phases (Forming, Storming and Norming) as quickly as possible so that the team can get to Performing.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But what if this managerial focus on velocity is a fata morgana obscuring the path to true agility and value? ? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 48,000-plus subscribers. ? Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! ? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Agile Project Management On the other end of the project management style spectrum is agile. Some don’t refer to agile as a project management style as much as a mindset to face uncertainty, give possible solutions a chance, get feedback and always adjust accordingly.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2022

The book is light on methods and tools and heavy on stakeholder engagement, authentic leadership and emotional maturity. These are: Culture Methods Leadership. Where these characteristics overlap you get agility, ability and stability, which is summed up in the diagram below: his Conscious Project Leader model.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Susanne Madsen is the author of several books on project management and leadership, including The Project Management Coaching Workbook and The Power of Project Leadership. She’s also the director of the London-based Project Leadership Institute, which works to build well-rounded and dynamic project management leaders.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

TL; DR: The Illusion of Velocity In this article, I explore the pitfalls of ‘The Illusion of Velocity’ in agile contexts, peeling back the layers of traditional metrics as leadership tools. Moreover, I point to the advantages gained from leadership engaging directly with teams.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Lee Henson Within the Agile framework, work in progress (WIP) is the amount of work that is currently being worked on but not yet completed by the team or organization. Limiting WIP is one of the core principles of Agile, and it is a critical aspect of ensuring that Agile teams can deliver high-quality products on time and within budget.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This is the third sample from my new Kindle book “ Agile Illustrated: A Visual Learner’s Guide to Agility ”. The book is a graphical introduction to the agile mindset and servant leadership behaviors for working with agile teams. These are forms of emergent and shared leadership.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

Anything that has a start and a finish, resulting in a product, is a project and its life cycle requires the oversight and leadership of a project manager. Agile certifications: These are ideal for those project managers that want to work in agile environments as a scrum master, agile certified practitioner or agile value stream consultant.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Lean portfolio management is a process by which strategy is aligned with execution using a lean approach and agile portfolio operations and governance. Lean project management is part of an agile methodology that aims to increase customer value by removing project waste. This requires accurate estimates of resources.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 48,000-plus subscribers. ? Lack of leadership support hinders collaboration. Such misalignments often conflict with agile values, leading to an environment that emphasizes the wrong goals, disrupts collaboration, and fosters confusion.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Brush up on your virtual leadership skills. Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams. In 2021, Cisco estimated that 82% of consumer internet traffic was video. What you can do. Assume trust in a remote team, but consciously try to build it as well. Why is it important?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 5, 2022

They need to have leadership qualities, manage teams, allocate resources and make project plans and schedules. Our multiple project views allow technical project managers to work how they want, with robust Gantt charts or more agile kanban boards. Make estimates for the budget and schedule. Leadership Skills. Learn more.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Agile by Rini van Solingen and Maarten Kossen was originally published in Dutch. The book starts with a warning that agile is more than a mindset, it is a philosophy, followed by 22 chapters, in which the authors show that it is easy to understand, but very difficult to apply at first. Scrum or agile?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2019

Hearing a senior executive announce "We're committed to becoming agile!" In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their hearts and minds had been won decades ago. Yet it's also the sticking point.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2020

Leadership. They want the innovation, speed and agility of a start-up combined with the size and scale of a larger firm. A business that has embraced Organisational Agility can achieve this, however it requires a profoundly different structure and operating model. Structure enables agility. Decentralised Decision Making.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Agile ceremonies are the fuel that keeps your development team moving forward. But what if you’re not entirely comfortable managing and running Agile ceremonies? Agile ceremonies get abandoned when teams stop seeing the value in them. Agile ceremonies get abandoned when teams stop seeing the value in them.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

There will be breakout sessions on using project management tools and techniques to help with more accurate estimates, how to keep projects on track and on evaluation of project performance. Agile & Beyond. Agile is not new. What to Expect: Sessions focus on agility, software engineering and lean business.

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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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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This is my favorite objection because it is an opportunity to discuss some fundamental truths about Agile. According to the 15th State of Agile Report , one of the most common motivations organizations cite for transitioning to Agile is to accelerate software delivery. To get to those truths, a bit of background is in order.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

According to the 15th annual State of Agile Report , released in July 2021 at digital.ai , there has been a tremendous increase in the adoption of agile frameworks over the past year. Within software teams, agile adoption grew from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. Developers estimate the work. Professional Agile Leadership.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

TL; DR: Jira Anti-Patterns If you ask people to come up with popular attributes for “Agile” or “agility,” Scrum and Jira will likely be among the top ten featured. Moreover, in any discussion about the topic, someone will mention that using Scrum running on top of Jira does not make an organization agile.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

Knowledge of project management methodologies , from waterfall to agile Able to use project management software Project planning and scheduling Project tracking to ensure plans are being executed on schedule Project budgeting to estimate costs and track them throughout the project’s life cycle Soft Skills: Those skills that develop naturally, but can (..)

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

46% of the organizations reported inconsistencies in practices and processes as their main challenge with agile transformation. Source: 15th State of Agile Report. There sure is an Agile framework called SAFe. SAFe is a scaling agile framework, so referring to it as just an agile framework may not be appropriate.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

As the world of business increases in complexity, it will take more than user stories, estimation, and OKRs to build a trustworthy system that management can delegate into. Muscial Interlude) The Challenges of Empowring Agile Teams I’m Dennis Stevens, Chief Methodologist at a company called LeadingAgile.

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