The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Activity An activity is the actual, specific task that must be performed in a project, i.e., the tactical level of work. Agile A flexible and dynamic approach to project management that allows for iterative updates during defined time blocks, which allows for incremental value. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g.,

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 25, 2018

At the program level and above, the choice of a people focus or a process focus is not between two competing paradigms. People are the raw material for teams, for not only Agile Program Management teams, but for almost every human based endeavor. This is obvious but many times lost when discussing agile processes.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 16, 2020

Scrums, standups or huddles), velocity might be the most misused tool by teams new to agile and the stakeholders supporting them. Using velocity as a performance measurement could encourage the wrong kind of behaviors such as neglecting quality, working an unsustainable pace or ignoring tangible business value delivered.

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Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

When we think about the journey from traditional delivery approaches to agile, the focus is normally on delivery teams or on those areas of the organization which will need to transition from being project-focused to becoming product, capability or value-stream centric.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities. There is No Such Thing as Free.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 29, 2017

A popular quote in the agile community is Wilo's Law. To make some conjecture that some process will fix the problem - Estimates are the smell of dysfunction and NOT Estimating will fix that dysfunction - is naive at best and willfully ignorant of Root Cause Analysis at worse. Measures of Performance.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Managment Processes. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning. Project Performance Management. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline. Agile Project Management.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

Practices and Process are Fads. A Process is a series of steps and decisions involved in the way work is completed. Here's my version in the form of questions that when answered form the foundation for the Practices and Processes. What does Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers?

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Wrike

JULY 24, 2023

Ultimatey, with the Balanced Scorecard, organizations can move away from a narrow focus on financial results and gain insights into other important areas such as customer satisfaction, internal processes, and learning and growth. Internal process: This perspective assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of internal operations and processes.

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The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 11, 2024

Sustainability Efforts: Apple emphasizes sustainability and environmental responsibility, incorporating recycled materials and renewable energy into its product manufacturing processes. Strategic Planning: Use the insights gained from the Strategy Canvas to inform your strategic planning process. Value: Moderate.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In the last decade, we have realized that we cannot plan all up front in a linear process to develop software. We are solving complex problems, which require us to use an empirical process, lean UX practices, and a supporting technology platform that allows us to build, measure, learn and apply the learning in a repeatable fashion.

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Wrike

AUGUST 25, 2023

By creating a continuous feedback loop, performance management enables organizations to identify and address performance gaps, foster employee development, and drive overall business success. It goes beyond the traditional annual performance reviews and focuses on continuous improvement and development.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For software, this can be value produced (assuming we have a unit of measure for that value in the for of effectiveness, performance, key performance parameters, or technical performance measures ). DP6Jw is an overview of this process. Stochastic process control is the field of study. https://goo.gl/DP6Jw

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

This system encompasses processes, principles, understanding customer preferences, and best practices designed to optimize project outcomes while aligning with organizational objectives. Efficiency and effectiveness are also measures of value creation. Customer value or the desired outcomes are established at the start of projects.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It's been said by an agile voice that. The original agile author's quote shows that systems engineering is missing from his development of software using Agile. In Earned Value Management paradigm, progress is always measured as physical percent complete. Technical Performance Measures.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 18, 2024

We will explore how the project management control process and systems are the backbone of project success, providing structure, oversight, and direction to ensure that projects are executed and aligned with organizational goals and values. The project team should collaborate to identify and manage risks.

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The Strategic Project Manager

APRIL 22, 2022

If it is a forced change based upon some condition changing disruptively, then the best antidote to the pain is the hope of seeing it through the process to the next step. Make sure people are doing what needs to be done to elevate performance, measure along the way, and make room for celebration of progress.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

You winged the entire project execution process, and now the theory of it all is taking a toll on you. . Agile projects usually do not have set or fixed scope, making this method extremely adaptive to changes proposed by clients. . This criterion is used as a basis for project monitoring and evaluating processes. Assumption.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

The Concept of Efficiency Efficiency is the measure of how well resources are utilized to achieve desired outcomes. It involves optimizing processes, eliminating waste, and maximizing productivity. One critical component is the optimization of processes and workflows.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2017

Key Performance Parameters (KPP) – Represent the capabilities and characteristics so significant that failure to meet them can be cause for reevaluation, reassessing, or termination of the program. KPPs have a threshold or objective value that characterize the major drivers of performance that are considered Critical to Customer (CTC).

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2017

The common definition of the Definition of Done in agile software development is (mostly from the Scrum Alliance and other official Scrum sites): A simple list of activities (coding, comments, unit testing, integration, release notes, design documents, etc.) These Measures have Little meaning to the Decision Makers. And many more.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s competitive business environment, it is crucial for organizations to effectively evaluate their employees’ performance. A powerful tool that can assist in this process is the Performance Matrix. Emphasize the benefits of using the Performance Matrix.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Some examples include the sequential Critical Path Method (CPM), which is based on the concept that some tasks can’t start until a previous one is complete, and the Agile Project Management (APM), which prioritizes shorter, iterative cycles and flexibility. . Baselines enable you to assess the performance of your project over time.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 14, 2016

For some reason the notion if value is a big mystery in the agile community. Many blogs, tweets, books are spent of speaking about Value as the priority in agile software development. Without units of measure of Value beyond time and money, there can be not basis of comparison between one value based choice and another.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ? The Idea of a Scrum GPT Exploring Scrum in the real world often uncovers a tangle of anti-patterns—those practices that, despite best intentions, stray from agile principles and hinder progress.

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

All companies desire to remain competitive and continuously improve their project management performance by becoming more efficient and more effective in the execution of their project management processes. Step 3: Be able to analyze the business and project management processes of other companies/organizations.

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Wrike

JULY 1, 2020

In fact, HR professionals are increasingly adopting project management tools to improve their processes and workflows. . Using formal project management processes, procedures, and tools can help lower risk and increase success on all of these long-term HR activities. Some of the outcomes of this process include: .

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Technical Performance Measures are one of four measures describing how a project is making progress to plan. Measure of Effectiveness. Measure of Performance.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Here's two recent ones I've encountered with some Agile and #NoEstimates advocates. 2nd Law of Thermodynamics states that the total entropy of an isolated system always increases over time, or remains constant in ideal cases where the system is in a steady state or undergoing a reversible process. No measures of effectiveness.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2016

This is a good start, but it needs to produce actionable outcomes , not just principles, but practices and processes. Much of Ackoff's principles are the basis of practices and processes that assure this happens. . Technical Performance Measures. Agile as a Systems Engineering Paradigm. Finance, social, political.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This method is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. I came to AHP through a seminar by Dr. Mathematically, the value equals performance over cost plus time. The risks related to performance, cost, and time must also be considered. The Wrap Up .

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Of late I've encountered many people on the web and in face-to-face encounters that simply fail to understand how probability and statistics works and how the principles of probability and statistics impact our decision-making processes. Introduction to Stochastic Process , Paul G. Hoel, Sidney C. Port, Charles J.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . Resources. [1]

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM).

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Herding Cats

JULY 20, 2016

A common assertion in the Agile community is we focus on Value over Cost. A target Value must be measured in units meaningful to the decision makers. Measures of Effectiveness and Performance that can monetized this Value. This is fundamental to the Microeconomics of Decision making for all business processes.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

High and medium-performing groups take less than a day to restore service, while low performers can take anywhere between one week and one month to get back on track. Sure, metrics and performance measurement are valuable, but what is it about DORA metrics that makes them uniquely reliable? Why use DORA metrics?

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