International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 30, 2020

We are excited to bring you this blog post on Innovation Project Management, which is adapted from Dr. Harold Kerzner’s new book of the same title. Below, he explains why this topic is so important, the types of challenges that innovation project managers face, and much more. Get your copy today!

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

This method has driven companies to new heights of efficiency and innovation, enriching every facet of project execution - from planning to evaluation - and boosting effectiveness and adaptability. It represents the ongoing effort to enhance products, services, or processes through incremental and breakthrough improvements.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 31, 2023

But is it possible to structure a process of continuous improvement at your company so that it aligns with your preferred management tools, team morale and overall objectives? In other words, can that process of continuous improvement prove productive and worthwhile? Some see continuous improvement as a meta-process, such as W.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The book Cycles – The simplest, proven method to innovate faster while reducing risks , written by Bryan Cassady with the collaboration of 22 co-authors, offers not only the ‘ why’ and ‘ what’ but also the ‘ how’ of innovation. The main parts of the book follow the author’s ABCS framework: A – Alignment.

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International Institute for Learning

JULY 7, 2022

However, today the principles of agile have spread to other corporate functions such as innovation. The Agile Innovation allows teams to launch new products quickly and at a lower risk than with traditional innovation practices (Kerzner, 2019). . Figure: Parallel paths of ideas development in Agile Environment .

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This transformation signifies a need for adaptive strategies and mindsets to navigate the evolving project management landscape effectively. These innovative tools are poised to revolutionize project processes, augment decision-making capabilities, and optimize resource utilization.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 24, 2024

The true essence of agility lies in its ability to transform not just processes but mindsets. This leads to what I call 'agility for agility's sake', where the focus is misplaced on the processes rather than the outcomes. It's about flattening the decision-making process and ensuring that agility serves the broader business objectives.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2024

This article outlines actionable strategies for thriving in challenging times, emphasizing that growth and success are achievable by leveraging community strength and readily accessible resources. Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ?

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UPQODE

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For businesses engaging in B2B transactions, the distinction and appeal of your brand are primarily driven by your branding strategy. This underscores the importance of a solid B2B branding strategy for the prosperity of your small business. In this piece, we delve into the subtleties of an effective B2B branding strategy.

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The Strategic Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Products and services, projects, and processes all need to add value to be strategically viable. Lean innovation management originated from startups, but is applicable in helping bring a startup mentality to a variety of types of organizations. Let’s start be defining lean innovation. That is the domain of lean innovation.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Join me as I explore the potential of a custom GPT based on my Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book in cutting through the maze of Scrum challenges. Providing the content was a simple process and only took a few minutes.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Small organizations can change direction quickly because they have fewer people or processes to change. Most medium to large-scale organizations have considerable mindset inertia in the form of strategies, multi-year plans, in-flight programs, and projects, etc. Now imagine the goal has shifted; we want to get to somewhere else.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Then it looks at how the framework can be applied in devising strategy, and managing project, programs, and portfolios. The Four Actions Framework, also known as the ERRC framework, is a ‘blue ocean’ strategic management tool introduced in the book “Blue Ocean Strategy” by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ Exercise Empirical Process Control : In your Retrospectives, identify instances where the feature factory mindset prevailed.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

A good project management book. the truth is that project management books are a more in-depth way to get inside the minds of the best managers out there. We combed through best-seller lists, spoke with veteran PMs, and read a ton to put together this list of the best project management books for upgrading your career in 2020.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The name is apt, as the waterfall methodology is a process in which the phases of the project flow downward. When implementing the agile methodology , project planning and work management are adaptive, evolutionary in development, seeking early delivery and are always open to change if that leads to process improvement.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ Finally, the Scrum Master’s encouragement of innovation and continuous improvement within the team ensures ongoing value creation, making these metrics integral to understanding their genuine contribution to the organization.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 28, 2024

Your single best investment to improve your professional standing; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Brooks’ Law Frederick Brooks stated in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” edition ! ? Learn more about Occam’s Razor.

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

is the learning process – how the brain acquires knowledge and skills. Outline strategies to enhance team communication and collaboration for improved project outcomes.” Formulate strategies to boost team morale, engagement, and productivity.” View all of Cyndi’s books here. Check out IIL’s New AI Course!

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Scrum.org

JULY 24, 2023

That would be the job of the process that feeds into the Product Backlog: product discovery. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! The five stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test, allow the team to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2023

However, in our rapidly evolving business landscape, sticking rigidly to traditional Scrum by the book could be a straightjacket stifling innovation, user focus, and adaptability. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! ? Example: Including a governance entity in the release process.)

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Scrum.org

JUNE 19, 2023

Unfortunately, some Scrum Masters fall into the trap of using the same Retrospective agenda repeatedly, stifling the team's creativity and hindering their ability to generate innovative solutions. The team's enthusiasm waned as they found it increasingly challenging to come up with new ideas or identify novel ways to improve their processes.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

is the learning process – how the brain acquires knowledge and skills. Outline strategies to enhance team communication and collaboration for improved project outcomes.” Formulate strategies to boost team morale, engagement, and productivity.” View all of Cyndi’s books here. Check out IIL’s New AI Course!

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The Strategic Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Innovation is an important topic these days simply because it is becoming critical to survival – for companies, governments, and people. Innovations are usually not completely new, a single stroke of genius, or just about a product. Let’s explore the question, “What is the definition of innovation?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 14, 2023

Defining requirements rigidly upfront might seem like a safe strategy, but it inherently hampers a team's ability to embrace new information, insights, and changing circumstances. These insights might lead to more innovative solutions, improved functionality, or a clearer understanding of user needs.

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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Nowadays, companies are very conscious that if they want to be competitive, they have to innovate. It is worth quoting a sentence of the father of the Open Innovation concept, Henry Chesbrough: “Most innovation fails. And companies that don’t innovate die” [1]. And companies that don’t innovate die” [1].

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

According to organizational design expert Jay Galbraith, there are five key components that make up an effective organizational design: strategy, structures, processes, reward systems, and people practices. Simply put, to achieve your business strategy, your organization must have the capabilities to support it.

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Velociteach

OCTOBER 2, 2023

With Rich Maltzman, he also is the co-author of the book “How to Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings” and its update, “ Great Meetings Build Great Teams: A Guide for Project Leaders and Agilists.” But we’re very excited about their book “Great Meetings Build Great Teams,” and that’s what we’re talking about today.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. You can see Mark’s book, and all the other experts’ books on Amazon here. He is author of 13 best-selling books, including four about project management.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 31, 2023

After the conference, I bought Eric Ries’s book - Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. In a nutshell, the three books point to the need to learn about your customer and business incrementally through frequent experimentation and learning.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 23, 2023

Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! Team members are empowered to take risks, try new ideas, and learn from failures, leading to more innovative solutions for customers. At the same time, encourage a culture of learning from mistakes and iterating on processes to improve continually.

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The Strategic Project Manager

JUNE 26, 2023

This post explores the idea of an evolved approach to strategy – the development and implementation of simple rules. It relates closely to the growth of the “project economy” What Is “Strategy as Simple Rules”? It was a departure from the idea of traditional long range, text book notions of strategy.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2020

Here are some of the main tech innovations that have led to an evolution in the way we manage projects. I talk about how to choose, get started and collaborate with technology in my PMI best-selling book, Collaboration Tools for Project Managers. Learn more about making collaboration tools work in my book. Technology.

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UPQODE

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Understanding the ways to increase customer loyalty can elevate your business growth strategies. Streamlining and accelerating the sign-up process can leave a more favorable initial impression. For e-commerce platforms, streamline the checkout process to be more intuitive and hassle-free.

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Scrum.org

JULY 9, 2023

Learn more about an oversized Product Backlog’s negative impact on innovation, your Scrum team’s ability to create value, and your relationship with stakeholders. ? Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! Encourage all to contribute ideas and challenge existing ones, avoiding the ‘crowding out’ effect.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ Mindlessly applying best practices from other organizations without considering their relevance to the current context will likely lead to ineffective processes. And then there are others — the Scrum trap. The next stop is team building.

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Scrum.org

JULY 3, 2023

Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! They are never process-driven but depend on cultural and mind-shift changes. What worked for GM in the 1920s is no longer a winning strategy. The Agile Manifesto favors individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

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