The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It reviews each of the key offerings, from the globally acclaimed Project Management Professional (PMP®) and PRINCE2®, to the more agile -minded certifications like ScrumMaster and Product Owner. Some practitioners find the methodology complex, and rigid compared to more flexible approaches like Agile (not including PRINCE2® Agile).

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Scrum.org

APRIL 9, 2023

I have been working on agile projects for the past 10 years. A couple of years ago, I asked by an executive how he would know if the money they invested on setting up these agile release trains was working? He was essentially asking me to prove the “ROI” for agile and to measure delivery of value.

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Zen Project Management

JANUARY 4, 2023

I've been reflecting on some of the agile transformations I've been involved in over the past few years. They had adopted the "Spotify Model" (yes I know, it's not a real thing) and after that they adopted another scaling framework. More on this idea in a future blog post. In some cases, I see some real progress made.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Madsen’s Twitter account is a must-follow for project management information and continuing education, and her thoroughly researched and engaging writing on the industry has previously appeared on our blog. He writes consistently on his blog about software development and lean, Kanban and agile development principles.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 20, 2022

For this blog, I’ll be focussing on the latter, which is coaching people, teams and organisation as a dedicated Agile Coach — a rather popular phenomenon but at the same time a confusing, perhaps even a contradicting one. Perhaps for the next blog. #1. It’s just managed differently in Scrum. Focussing too much on the Scrum team.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In this highly engaging talk at the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, Jimmy Janlén addresses the core element of “Agile,” it’s key to speed, innovation, and success: team autonomy. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 34,000-plus subscribers. ?? Jimmy Janlén is an agile coach and teacher.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

If you want to be successful at Agile Transformation —especially at scale—you’ll need more than Agile Coaches teaching your teams the ceremonies of Scrum or how to do SAFe and LeSS. To be successful, your company will need an array of people to take on various Agile roles and responsibilities. Program/Portfolio Coach.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2022

First, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. ?. But speed is by far insufficient to be Agile at the organizational level. But speed is by far insufficient to be Agile at the organizational level. Optimize for Adaptability.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 30, 2024

Agile management: For teams that work in an agile environment, they can track progress on tasks, plan sprints and integrate with third-party apps. It is used for work management, from campaign planning to agile workflows. To begin with, let’s look at Asana. Who Uses Asana? Asana is popular. Premium plan: $10.99/user/month,

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Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company. The basic concept SAFe divides enterprise agility into three level of abstractions: Team level (Scrum teams). Agile Release Train (ART). Agile Teams.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 27, 2022

I received a question: do you believe scrum and agility can be scaled and what’s the best approach to it? I want to walk through each of these, first of all, I just want to talk about pathology that seems to be going on with scaling. So let’s walk through some of these patterns cause I was asked do I believe they can be scaled?

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Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company. The basic concept SAFe divides enterprise agility into three level of abstractions: Team level (Scrum teams). Agile Release Train (ART). Agile Teams.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Over the course of this blog, we’ll discuss how ITSM is implemented, managed and delivered to meet the needs of an organization and how project management software can help facilitate those processes. ITSM aims towards standardization and efficiency, which leads to cost savings and helps you scale your operations easily.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Agile Methodology. What It Is: In a nutshell, Agile project management is an evolving and collaborative way to self-organize across teams. The agile methodology offers project teams a very dynamic way to work and collaborate and that’s why it is a very popular project management methodology for product and software development.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

New Paper Improving Enterprise-Level Predictability With Agile Get it Now. We typically think of Agility as being nearly synonymous with adaptability, and that a change in mindset or culture to become more adaptable is the right place to begin Agile Transformation. Dependencies are the number one killer of Agility. .

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 7, 2021

An Agile Transformation Consultant who wants to lead a successful Transformation is going to need more than a deep understanding of Agile. In a recent blog post, we discussed the various types of Agile Transformation Coaches needed to run a sustainable Transformation. Agile Transformation Consultant: Team Attributes.

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Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

Agility should no longer be a new term for most project managers. High flexibility, adaptability and increased communication are just a few of the benefits that have led to significant improvements through the introduction of agile work processes in organizations. So agility in itself is nothing new for many companies.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2022

Scrum, agile thinking, modern software development working practices are synonymous with Digital Technology and have evolved out of the fundamentally different characteristics of the opportunity presented by technology. Jerry Neuman, the forward-thinking venture capitalist describes the outcomes of the Deployment Phase in his blog.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

TL; DR: The Agile Metrics Survey 2021. If you value agile practices, it is crucial to know if a job offering or a prospective business partner that claims to be “agile” really keeps its promises. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 33,000-plus subscribers. ?? Refined the instrument.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 7, 2024

As the Agile project management framework reaches adoption maturity at lean, progressive and disruptive startup firms, many teams at established organizations are struggling to fully embrace the Agile project management framework at scale. How to migrate from Traditional PM to Agile?

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Project Management Update Submitted Articles

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Agile Portfolio Management. Agile Maturity & Change Management: 3 Steps for Achieving Executive Buy-In. Agile Maturity & Change Management: 3 Steps for Achieving Executive Buy-In. Large-scale change is difficult for any organization, and no less so when it involves growing Agile maturity in project and portfolio management.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In this series of blogs, we’ll talk about leadership outside the Scrum Team. The first blog post will focus on what Scrum means for you as a leader. Future blogs will explore: How to create the conditions in which Scrum can thrive. How leaders can support the Scrum accountabilities, artifacts, and events. .

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A relative sizing scale of high, medium, and low, or a 1 to 5 scale can be used. I prefer using a high, medium, and low scale and then assigning numeric values of high=6, medium=3, and low=1. Using the non-linear scale accentuates items requiring greater attention. Is this item becoming critical to the project’s success?

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2021

Scaling Dojos without first fixing the organization would be a waste. Outside the Dojo, the challenges of adopting Agility (orchestration, dependencies, governance incompatibility, company culture and practices, and every other challenge that existed before the Dojo) waits to return and plague the participants.

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2022

Together with Craig Larman, Bas developed Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS). A framework for scaling Scrum to medium to large products while staying true to the original Scrum principles. Why should I use LeSS and not any of the other scaling frameworks (SAFe, Nexus, etc.)? In this blog post, we focus on one specific topic that emerged.

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Scrum.org

MAY 12, 2019

The company is now strategizing to scale agility throughout the company. . Ahmed: Did you get an invite for a meeting with the Senior Management to discuss scaling agility throughout the company? I am just not sure about the way the company is heading with scaling agility. Me: Yeah I did. Ahmed: Yeah.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe® is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. The seven core competencies each have three dimensions making it a total of twenty-one dimensions to enable Business Agility. One of the Dimensions of Agile Product Delivery is a core competency. Continuous Delivery Pipeline.

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NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

When the Agile methodology was first introduced, it was embraced as a welcome replacement to the rigid Waterfall approach. The community largely accepted Agile and Waterfall as mutually exclusive project management paradigms. Critics of Agile believed that Agile simply translates into fast failure.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. Most organizations started their Agile journey with one of the frameworks mentioned above, and Scrum is the most popular one. Scaling Agile Frameworks.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2023

Imagine that you’re part of an Agile or Scrum team and you frequently experience how your team struggles to navigate conflict effectively, or the Sprint Retrospective only results in meaningless improvements, or Sprints never have a predefined Sprint Goal. In the end, Agile & Scrum teams exist to deliver value to stakeholders.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

The executives and leaders I collaborate with acknowledge that, in their contexts, large-scale transformation events are becoming less common. That is why agile change and project management approaches are so popular. Inspire joint decision-making and shared responsibilities, tapping into diverse team strengths for collective success.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

First, however, you might wonder how Disney implements its agile framework at such a large scale. This article will discuss how Disney can use the Scaled Agile Framework® to address the challenges a large organization will face when implementing it in its software development process.

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Agilemania

AUGUST 28, 2022

Despite the growing popularity of the Scaled Agile Framework ® , demand for Scaled Agile Program Consultants (SPCs) remains high, the professionals who help companies govern their Agile workforce using tried and proven tools. As a result, there is a greater need for SPC Trainers (SPCTs), who train the SPCs.

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Agilemania

MAY 3, 2022

Agile product management is the most preferred approach to developing new products, services, or solutions. It should come as no surprise since the Agile adoption rate increased from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. . How does agile adoption start? And, how do you start learning Agile? Through Agile certifications! .

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Agile A flexible and dynamic approach to project management that allows for iterative updates during defined time blocks, which allows for incremental value. Agile Manifesto The fundamental document that outlines the values and principles of Agile project management. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g.,

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

How can Agile methodologies be adapted and implemented in non-software development projects?” “Why She has extensive experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using both Waterfall and Agile based development practices. We heard your questions, and we are moving rapidly to provide you with answers.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling the Mt. Today, we at Agilemania are proud to share that we have become a Scaled Agile Gold Partner. Why Scaled Agile Framework? It is the Framework of Choice for Leading Organizations to scale agile. Fast forward, a decade later, SAFe® had become a celebrity among the agile frameworks.

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