The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The History of Agile Project Management Agile project management emerged in the software development industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The Waterfall model follows a sequential process, where each phase of the project is completed in a linear fashion, with limited room for changes or feedback.

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Appfluence

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Product leaders should take advantage of the moment to review how their team manages every phase in the product life cycle and determine areas that could benefit from current solutions on the market. Today we think of product management in contemporary business terms, defined by the role of the Product Manager in software and other fields.

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Appfluence

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Product leaders should take advantage of the moment to review how their team manages every phase in the product life cycle and determine areas that could benefit from current solutions on the market. Today we think of product management in contemporary business terms, defined by the role of the Product Manager in software and other fields.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In the 1960s, it was considered a baseline good practice in software engineering to test your code as you wrote it. The pioneers of software development in that era were proponents of various levels of testing; some advocated “unit” testing and some didn’t, but all recognized the importance of testing code.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 27, 2018

Over the years, software development tools have grown in complexity and in system resource consumption. What would a minimal, yet functional development environment look like? What would a minimal, yet functional development environment look like? Before getting into that, let’s review the pros and cons of IDEs.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 15, 2019

At a larger scale, a software delivery organization should limit the number of projects in flight concurrently, and strive to “stop starting and start finishing,” as David Anderson put it. In Lean terms, what you’re experiencing in those games (and possibly in your real work, too) is a high level of work-in-process or WIP.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

These past few years have seen an incredible evolution in the way software is built. In these next years, we’re going to see a new wave of what software can do with the growing capabilities of machine learning, artificial intelligence and data pipelines across enterprises. Mike Clayton. Mike Clayton. Monica Borrell.

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Planview

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Regardless of the industry, companies will continue to be affected by different changes due to global competition, new legislation, or other factors. While standards and process centers of excellence will need centralized definition and structure, self-directed teams and the distributed nature of work will force a different way of operating.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The IMP should provide sufficient definition to track the step-by-step completion of the required Accomplishments for each event and to demonstrate satisfaction of the completion Criteria for each Accomplishment. Most IMPs in development programs include Events for major design reviews such as PDR or CDR.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Acceptance Test: A process through which a project's end users run through the project to identify any potential issues before it can be formally accepted. Activity ID: An alphanumeric code used to identify an activity. Acquisition Process: The process for acquiring the resources and people needed to complete a project.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.” Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019?

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MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Today’s session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the technical category and the code for claiming today’s session is on the screen now.

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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. Chakraborty and K.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 24, 2019

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. We’re going to take a quick review of Agile options and approaches. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations.

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