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What is IT Service Management?

The IIL Blog

I expect you’ll join me in recognising that Information Technology has existed for approximately 100 years. Information Technology is a young industry with several even younger career paths, one of which is Information Technology Service Management (ITSM).

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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

Scrum.org

This interest from people around me encouraged me to do some research and thinking on the subject, which I have summarized in this article.( In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking. Why is that? How can we help?

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Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Project Management

The IIL Blog

Eugene is a Strategy and Management Consultant with three decades of Information Technology and Program Execution experience. degree in Information Systems from the University of Southern California and a B.B.A. degree in Information Systems from Texas Tech University. Euguene earned an M.S. He is a retired U.S.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

“Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. 9, Issue 3, No.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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Top 3 Essential Technical Project Manager Skills

Wrike

Simply put, a technical PM plans, schedules, and manages IT-related projects – e.g., projects that support software engineering, app development, network security… you get the idea. In fact, a 2016 article in CIO listed technical knowledge as the most in-demand project management skill. Essential project management skills.