The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So, picture this: you are transitioning from your current position into a project management career. The industry didn’t matter; it was about translating my work experience into specific project management industry-recognized terms and managing projects. What are the Essential Project Management Buzzwords?

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Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

Productivity Land

APRIL 24, 2024

In the evolving market cycle, asset managers are constantly under pressure to increase the margins of the investments for their clients. These functions may include trade settlement support, client reporting, data aggregation, investment accounting (IBOR), and performance measurement among others. Here are a few reasons why!

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Infrastructure Performance Measurement Risk Management Defining 52

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Managment Processes. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Top Habits of Successful Project Managers. The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of Performance Management.

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The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 11, 2024

Finally, it details the use and benefits of the tool for practicing strategy and project management. The Strategy Canvas tool is a management tool introduced by W. Situations involving agile approaches , disruption , employing SAFe agile methods are ripe to leverage the Strategy Canvas. What is the Strategy Canvas Tool?

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Innovation Sustainability Retail 105

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.

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Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

What is A System for Value Delivery in Project Management Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you a project manager looking to improve your project management skills and help your organization grow? Take the next step towards mastering the value delivery system and project management. What is a System for Value Delivery?

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Governance Government Technical Review Sustainability 52

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 18, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you a Project Manager struggling to align your project objectives efforts with your organizational objectives? In this article, we will dive deep into organizational and project governance and systems in project management. Ready to take your project management efforts to the next level?

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Governance Government Risk Management 2015 52

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It's been said by an agile voice that. Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design and manage complex systems over their life cycles. Progress and Value are measured with the same in Earned Value Management. Also, trailing indicator.

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Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

Project managers , who have just begun working on a project, may find it really stressful and time-consuming to manage multiple tasks, especially if they don’t know the basics. . Imagine you get a promotion as a project manager and are now solely responsible for various management tasks. Common Project Management Terms.

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The Strategic Project Manager

APRIL 22, 2022

This post examines what the Satir Change Model is, how it is an important consideration for strategy, and how project managers can leverage it to provide leadership. If the change is one being executed as part of a program, it stands a chance of being less painful if managed right. What Is the Satir Model for.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Performance Measurement Executing 98

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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Software Review Technical Review Performance Measurement Estimate 28

Wrike

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The primary output of a schedule management plan is the project schedule , an essential component of a comprehensive project plan. A thorough schedule management plan is essential for project progress and success. . Your schedule management plan should include guidelines on how you and your team navigate situations like this.

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Planning Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Performance Measurement 68

Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

This agility is crucial in a dynamic business environment where market conditions can change rapidly. This could include implementing agile methodologies, leveraging reusable code libraries, and automating repetitive tasks to increase the number of software releases without sacrificing quality.

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Software Review Technical Review Innovation Performance Measurement 36

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. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , 57 (4), pp.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Active reduction requires we have a desired reduction goal, perform the work, and measure progress toward the rduction goal. Measure of Effectiveness.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

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. The internal organizational units can also be responsible for evaluating external literature related to project management.

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Aerospace Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 59

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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Performance Measurement Engineering Lean Software Developers 49

Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

The best starting point for determining the NEEDED precision and accuracy is to determine the Value at Risk. . If I'm risking two weeks of work for the Scrum team of 5 people it's a much different need from the risk of a $10B manned spaceflight program being supported to congress for budget authorization. . Answer 2 weeks.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2017

KPPs have a threshold or objective value that characterize the major drivers of performance that are considered Critical to Customer (CTC). Technical Performance Measures (TPM) – are attributes that determine how well a system or system element is satisfying or expected to satisfy a technical requirement or goal. Scalability.

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Performance Measurement Estimate Risk Defining 39

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2018

In this domain, we applied traditional program and project management methods for cost and schedule management at the top level. The development of the software and sometimes the development of the hardware is done in an agile manner, using one of several Agile development methods - SAFe, Scrum for example. Knowledge ?

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2001 Software Estimate Performance Measurement 31

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 29, 2017

A popular quote in the agile community is Wilo's Law. Any successful technical communication needs to have: Measures of Effectiveness. Measures of Performance. Technical Performance Measures. Key Performance Parameters. IT Risk Management. Related articles. Deadlines Always Matter.

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Process Estimate Engineering Performance Measurement 56

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2018

In this domain, we applied traditional program and project management methods for cost and schedule management at the top level. The development of the software and sometimes the development of the hardware is done in an agile manner, using one of several Agile development methods - SAFe, Scrum for example. Knowledge ?

2001 28

2001 Software Estimate Performance Measurement 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Brown and his book The Handbooks of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management and my review of the same book. AHP is based on the principle that all measurements are relative. At the top is the decision objective.

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Technical Review 2010 2014 Software Developers 47

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Wrike

JULY 1, 2020

Smarter hiring, workplace culture initiatives, and day-to-day operational excellence are all priorities in the industry, meaning that project management for HR has never been more important. In fact, HR professionals are increasingly adopting project management tools to improve their processes and workflows. .

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Performance Measurement Executing 36

Herding Cats

JANUARY 29, 2018

There's a popular notion in Agile that says Focus on Value. In both cases, these create a risk to the success of the project. These risks - aleatory and epistemic - must be handled in some way if they are to not have an undesirable impact on the outcome of the project. IT Risk Management. Related articles.

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Manufacturing Estimate Risk Management Budget 40

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Our topic is Increasing the Probability of Program Success Thorugh Continuous Risk Management. . The origins of this paper came about at a recent JSCC meeting here in Boulder, with local Aerospace contractors, the DCMA (Defense Contract Management Agency) and several government agencies (NRO and NASA). Risk-Adjusted Plans.

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Aerospace Estimate Governance Government 37

MPUG

MAY 21, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 3: Using MS Project to Track and Report on Performance, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. This one’s titled using MS Project to track and report on performance.

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Performance Measurement Technical Review Software Review Budget 52

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Garvey - this book is fundamental to managing cost and the supporting schedules on all the projects I work. This is found many times in project work around risk management and other performance measures that are ordinal rather than cardinal. Allen - this was a grad school text as well. Hoel, Sidney C.

Engineering 52

Engineering Performance Measurement Risk Management Risk 52

Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

For project management domain, what are some Principles? Each of these processes has Practices that have been shown to be widely applicable in many domains, including Agile development. With execution underway, managing the risks of the project becomes our focus beyond the engineering work.

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Process Engineering Software Developers Software Development 53

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For any closed loop control system ‒ let’s assume we want to manage our project with such a system ‒ has a signal representing the current state of the system. It can be the cost, schedule, and technical performance measures of the software project. What is the value at risk you are willing to right off if you lose control?

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Closing Estimate Controlling Process 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2016

How do you define, design, represent, assess, analyze, and manage these interactions. Here's a start in learning how to manage in the presence of these systems. Technical Performance Measures. Agile as a Systems Engineering Paradigm. Systems Thinking, System Engineering, and Systems Management.

Engineering 28

Engineering Software Performance Measurement Finance 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Here's two recent ones I've encountered with some Agile and #NoEstimates advocates. Setting targets and measuring performance against that target is the basis of all closed loop control systems used to manage projects. In our domain this control system is the Risk Adjusted Earned Value Management System (EVMS).

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Estimate Software Developers Software Development 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Here's an extract from "Chapter 8: Human Behavior and Complexity," Terry Cooke-Davies, in Aspects of Complexity: Managing Projects in a Complex World. This is a cautionary tale for those listening to the #NoEstimates advocates, where anecdotes of bad management are used in an attempt to replace established principles of business management.

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