The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Insights from Bosch By Johannes Köber Agility, dynamic, and flexibility are trendsetting words, with good reason. These challenges impact project management practices and project managers, spurring much-cited Agile Transformation. billion euros and is already implementing agile transformation in many units.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

There’s no denying that project management today looks different to how it did even 5 years ago. Project management trends shape our profession. We see technology evolving, new tools, consolidation, innovation and more. How project management is evolving. 10 Project management trends you need to know.

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Scrum.org

JULY 9, 2023

TL; DR: The Costs of an Oversized Product Backlog Some Product Owners believe that a comprehensive Product Backlog is the best way to accomplish the Product Goal and be fully transparent simultaneously—never let a possibly valuable idea slip away. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available !

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ Mindlessly applying best practices from other organizations without considering their relevance to the current context will likely lead to ineffective processes.

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Online PM Courses

DECEMBER 18, 2017

And you may be ready for a project management course. But, for a new project manager, project management books are still a great way to learn. And for those of us with experience under our belts, the right project management books can offer new insights and ideas. Mike Clayton.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM The quest for methodologies that offer efficiency and agility has never been rockier. Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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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. ?. Speed of delivery can be quickly "sold" to management. But speed is by far insufficient to be Agile at the organizational level. Optimize for Adaptability.

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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, get an idea of how to start flipping outdated hierarchies and embrace the natural rhythm of productivity and innovation. ?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 23, 2023

TL; DR: Self-Management Is self-management an essential building block on an organization’s path to business agility or a nice-to-have cultural twist to, for example, keep teams happy and attract new talent? Please continue reading and delve into the reasons that support self-management. ??

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 14, 2023

In the realm of agile methodologies, Scrum stands as a guiding beacon, promoting flexibility, collaboration, and incremental progress. Embracing Change and Learning Agile frameworks, including Scrum, are built on the premise that change is inevitable and that the best solutions often emerge from an iterative and adaptive approach.

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Project Bliss

MAY 10, 2017

Everybody’s talking about agile software development these days: project managers, software developers, IT directors, small startups and big corporations. What is Agile Software Development? Agile software development is an approach that promotes delivering value quickly to the customer. Agile Principles.

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Scrum.org

MAY 15, 2023

TL; DR: 60 ChatGPT Prompts for Agile Practitioners ChatGPT can be an excellent tool for those who know how to create prompts. However, this approach is unlikely to trigger the best response from the model. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 46,000-plus subscribers. Design a Sprint board.

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Sandeep Kashyap

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Introduction Want to be an agile project manager? It’s no secret that agile project management has become a buzzword in today’s fast-paced business world. And for a good reason — it offers an iterative and flexible approach to managing projects. What is an agile project manager?

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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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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

By Alan Zucker Disciplined Agile® (DA) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) are two popular, second-generation agile methodologies. They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Scrum.org

JULY 7, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile. On many occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. In that respect, the current issues that many distributed teams face may also act as accelerants to become more agile.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2018

It can mean different things within various organizations or circumstances, but there is a way to broadly outline this business process improvement methodology and define its beginnings, its, rise, its use and its implementation. As noted, it’s a methodology used to improve the quality of an output in a process. What Is Six Sigma?

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International Institute for Learning

JULY 13, 2023

Abstract The field of project management has witnessed numerous advancements and continuous improvement efforts across various leadership applications and management domains. As AI agents take over certain processes, forms, and checklists, the role of EQ in project management becomes even more critical.

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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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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This range accounts for the many factors that could affect the pace at which adoption occurs, including regulation, levels of investment, and management decision making within firms [3]. Risk Management. Effective risk management has to be proactive. Human Capital Optimization. Active Assistance.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Q&A from Accelerating Innovation: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 26, 2020

By Scott Ambler | Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. This post is a supplement to Scott’s upcoming keynote at IIL’s Agile & Scrum 2020 Online Conference ]. In this blog I describe the mindset behind PMI’s Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit, overviewed in Figure 1.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 4, 2022

The Disciplined Agile Mindset. By Scott Ambler | Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. The DA tool kit shows you how to apply and evolve your way of working (WoW) in a context-sensitive manner with this people-first, learning-oriented hybrid agile approach.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2019

All these efforts require precise judgment to hire just-in-time talent, using data to make strategic project decisions at a portfolio, program and project level and launching new high performing teams. Project Performance Affects the Bottom Line. Related: Using Earned Value Management to Measure Project Performance.

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Scrum.org

MAY 26, 2020

TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem. If so, you can subscribe here and join 26k agile peers. The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview with The Liberators Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem. Also, they are co-authors of the upcoming Zombie Scrum book . This wasn’t a success.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Introduction: First, I am not writing this to be highbrow; besides technical and project management topics, I have enjoyed history and mythology for years. I recently watched an old Greek mythology movie from the early 80’s, and I had a revelation: the muses and project management. Deadlines loom large. Challenges abound.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

and Cynthia Snyder Dionisio, MBA, PMP We have all attended project management workshops, conferences, and symposiums. We have read books and journal articles on various project management topics. The starting point was the selection of individuals to function as project managers.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. Would you like to make 2018 a successful year for your projects? Amongst them I count my virtual mentors and project delivery professionals who inspire me. I’m sure you do. Get the ebook!

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2017

April’s theme at ProjectManagement.com where I write a monthly column was “Consulting,” and in this article, I examine the world of Agile Consulting and coaching. Depending on where people are in their careers, their agile adoption and their corporate culture, some people want a consultant, others a coach and sometimes they want a blend.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 4, 2022

The Disciplined Agile Mindset. By Scott Ambler , Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. The Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit supplies straightforward guidance to help you, your team, and your enterprise increase your effectiveness. The Principles. Be awesome.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. The reason for this surge in popularity is quite understandable, the majority of projects benefit when managed using lean concepts promoted by Agile project management methodology.

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The IIL Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

The landscape for project management changes almost every year. Historically, most of the changes appeared in the methodology, processes, tools, and techniques. There are also changes taking place where project teams are being given choices on what is the best approach to manage the projects.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

Companies that adopt Agile never do it just for the sake of adopting Agile. They do know that Waterfall wasn’t working, so Agile will fix those problems, right? They think if they do the “Agile stuff,” they will make quicker progress to achieve their goals.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 2, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Project managers, have you ever felt overwhelmed by the unpredictable waves of the project environment? The terrain of project management is fraught with hidden challenges and opportunities lying in wait for the unwary. What is a Project Environment? The result?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. What product discovery part, you may think now. Think of “MVP.”).

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The IIL Blog

JULY 19, 2023

July 19, 2023 Project Versus Functional Worker Engagement Worker engagement is the way a company treats employees, or the way employees treat one another to create a high quality and highly productive project work environment. Project managers (PMs) often had no say in who would be assigned from the functional organizations.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Dr. Harold Kerzner What is meant by project management complexity or project complexity? How will knowing this make my life (as a project professional) easier? Organizational projects are by nature far-reaching and complex. Why is it important to know now?

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