The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Whether you are just starting out, developing your project manager resume, or a seasoned professional, mastering the Project Management Buzzwords is non-negotiable. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e.,

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Since 2000, agile product development and project management have been on the rise, with 60% of companies claiming to experience profit growth after adopting an agile approach. This article will cover the trending Product Owner role. A Product Owner is a person who’s part of the scrum team. What does a Product Owner do?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 22, 2019

For years, I’ve fulfilled the role of Scrum Master for many different organizations and Scrum Teams. These teams were mostly focused on software development. These organizations were able to attract the smartest developers and create products customers loved. Examples of a Developer Culture.

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Digite

MAY 15, 2018

This article is the fourth in a series of “Kanban and Scrum – Stronger Together”. In the most recent post in Steve Porter’s series, Yuval Yuret presents Scrum in a manner that is intended to educate Kanban teams. This is probably the set of things that, regardless of the name, Scrum and Kanban teams will have the most in common.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Interview coding challenges are critical when hiring new software developers. Finding the right developer can be a difficult process. What are Interview Coding Challenges for Developers? These are technical quiz-type tests that require the developer to pick the correct answer out of several possible answers.

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Wrike

JUNE 29, 2023

The code review process is like the editing phase in writing a book. You give it to someone else to read — this person is like the code reviewer. Code review is crucial for software development teams to ensure quality output with minimal errors and risks. Try Wrike for free What is a code review ?

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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. In 1991 the book Rapid Application Development was published and an approach of the same name, RAD, was born. Agile projects are iterative and have regular feedback loops.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

Regularly, we find articles from developers detailing why ‘Agile’ in general and Scrum’s nature, in particular, deserve our collective disdain. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? In a recent article on Scrum’s nature , the author describes his experience with “Scrum” in detail. The statement is plain wrong.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Business agility is often achieved through the use of agile practices and methodologies, such as agile project management and agile software development. It gets a bit repetitive; however, the Generative AI adds agile practices and refers directly to agile software development.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? As somebody hiring for a Scrum Team, you need to determine for yourself what works for your organization — which is a process, not a destination.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Scrum Anti-Patterns: From Product Backlog to Sprint Review.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Do you want to get this article in your inbox? However, it is a sign of mistrust, though, if the management uses the budget permanently as a means of controlling the teams, making them “pitch” every two months or so. This one has a quick remedy, though: Do not participate in meetings that have no value for the team.

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Teamweek

MAY 17, 2024

Project productivity measures how efficiently and effectively teams complete tasks and reach goals. In this article, you will learn nine ways to increase project productivity and how Toggl Plan and Toggl Track can help you do it. Project productivity is a metric that shows how successfully teams work and achieve project goals.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Scrum is a lightweight agile framework that encourages team members to work on a problem together. It helps teams to gather knowledge from experience and learn self-organization through working on an issue. . Scrum encourages teams to improve by reflecting on their success and losses. . The Scrum Master.

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Proofhub

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It includes various tasks, from early idea and planning to creating UX/UI design, development, launch, search for a good Magento support service , and other ongoing optimization. The article explains the key stages of eCommerce project management and provides tips on implementing it in the best possible way.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Code consistency plays a crucial role in the development of software applications. By tracking changes made to code files and facilitating collaborative development, source control helps in maintaining a high level of code consistency throughout the software development lifecycle.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital world, where software applications play a pivotal role in our personal and professional lives, ensuring robustness and reliability has become more crucial than ever. This is unlike positive testing, where the focus would be on verifying that the software behaves as intended under expected conditions.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 4, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you looking to elevate your leadership style to foster a more dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team? One of the secrets to unlocking your team's full potential lies in embracing the core values of the Scrum Framework. What is the Scrum Framework?

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

According to a common and general definition, Team Management can be seen as the ability of an individual (manager) or of an organization to lead a group of people to accomplishing a task or common goal. Good management of a team means to do the best by and for the employees. By Luigi Morsa.

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Teamweek

JUNE 10, 2020

Although it’s seemingly similar to finding a software developer , there are some distinct differences to consider when thinking about how to hire web developers. Let’s find out what makes for a great web developer, what tech skills they should have, where to find them, and how to hire them. What is a web developer?

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In this brief article, we will help you study some effective tools and techniques which can be used in different fields of the organizational culture that facilitate you in creating an efficient strategy and to successfully deliver a top-notch project. Agile Project Management.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This article will provide you with an in-depth guide on how to prevent project scope creep, from understanding its definition to implementing strategies and tools to control it. Imagine a software development project where the project manager estimated that it would take three months to complete.

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Wrike

JULY 29, 2023

In this article, we will delve into its origins, principles, methodology, benefits, and applications, and explore real-life examples of successful implementation. While working at Toyota, Japanese engineer and businessman Taiichi Ohno played a crucial role in the development of Kaizen.

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Teamweek

JUNE 25, 2020

And, while Asana is a great tool for micro-managing work, more creative teams are looking for Asana alternatives that allow better freedom at work. In this article, you’ll learn about 30 alternatives to Asana that are easy to use and help creative teams collaborate better. Let’s begin. Ease of use. Collaboration.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

Imagine a marketing team that needs to review and approve multiple advertising campaigns. Without workflow software, this process could involve numerous email exchanges, meetings, and delays. Enhanced Collaboration and Communication With workflow software, teams can collaborate seamlessly on tasks, projects, and documents.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In the complex world of project management, the role of a project lead is essential for guiding teams towards success. This article aims to explore the multifaceted role of a project lead and shed light on the skills, responsibilities, and challenges associated with this position.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When it comes to managing teams and projects effectively, managers can choose from many project management frameworks and methodologies. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an Agile project management framework focused on flexibility, continuous iteration and improvement, and cross-functional collaboration between teams and stakeholders.

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Project Bliss

MAY 24, 2017

When you finish reading this post, you’ll have a better understanding of each, what each looks like when applied to a simple project, and reasons why each might be good or bad approaches for your team. The team repeats the same steps over and over. The team also reassess the work as they develop the solution.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In discussing the delivery capacity of a software development team, we can say “velocity” and everyone knows we mean the amount of work the team can complete, on average, in a given time interval , and we don’t mean, literally, va=v+v02. In software development, it’s only a metaphor.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and management. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. We assess physical percent complete at close business every single day, with the update of the TO DO field in Rally at the Task level.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing our theme of helping Agile teams understand the Kanban Method, so they can effectively adopt it for their improvement efforts, I am again honored to publish a guest article by another great friend of ours – Dave White. You will enjoy this excellent article. Cheers, Mahesh Singh. People-centric.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 7, 2021

In this article, we look at 15 Enterprise Project Management tools. We’ll compare their features, ease of use, and price — the top 3 factors teams look at before choosing a PM tool. Specifically, we’ll answer: What is EPM software? Inconsistent processes across project teams. Siloed information and project teams.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and business management. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy, since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. The notion of waterfall development on slide 9 as actually prohibited in our domain. Have you done a Root Cause Analysis?

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Mike Cohn’s August 2016 article, The Dangers of a Definition of Ready describes certain problems that can occur when a team uses the concept of a Definition of Ready. Below I review the LeadingAgile Compass model to try and provide context around Definition of Ready. They have no (or very few) cross-team dependencies.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

An unattended software delivery pipeline frees technical staff to spend more time on value-add activities rather than tediously performing repetitive tasks by hand, such as. Reviewing code by eyeballing it to ensure compliance with coding standards. First, there’s a tool-centric mentality about software-related work.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

The original post, while likely well meaning, coming from direct experience, focuses on ME the developer. And like many posts and tweets about estimating, it's made from this point of view, not the business point view, not from the point of view of those paying the developer. This Value is developed during the Product Planning session.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Does that make sense to anyone who has worked in software development?

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