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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Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

An implementation plan guides your entire team through the who , what , when , and how of your project — providing clarity, alignment, and accountability for everyone involved. Identify tasks, estimate timings, and map a timeline Step 4. Define team roles and assign team members to tasks Step 5. Team accountability.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2018

Project managers rely on a good design to avoid pitfalls and provide parameters to maintain crucial aspects of the project, like the schedule and the budget. In this stage of the project, the decisions about how to manage and govern are made. There are steps to take for defining projects and developing an implementation strategy.

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Planio

APRIL 22, 2024

According to some estimates , PMs spend 90% of their time communicating with team members, sponsors, and stakeholders. Easier to share information with teams and stakeholders. This will enable the sales team to maximize efficiency and drive a forecasted monthly increase in sales of 23% (c.$60,000)

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Velociteach

APRIL 11, 2023

Developing the charter often requires negotiating with stakeholders to align their support for the project. These issues would have been uncovered sooner had I been involved in developing the charter. The team can return to the charter throughout the project to reorient themselves and guide future decisions.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In many cases it’s easier to work at a surface level, dealing with immediate issues and reacting to requests from the team and from executives. Similarly, the project charter and the project plan have little value if they haven’t been produced in collaboration with the team and if the stakeholders aren’t fully bought into them.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 14, 2021

Delivery delay, Bad weather conditions due to which the accomplishment of a task is hindered or becomes impossible, Etc. You can’t predict all bad things that can happen, because reality isn’t flawless. These factors can result in project delays or falling beyond budget frames. This list is just endless. Let’s figure out how.

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Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Project Life Cycle 98

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Project Manager is typically concerned with day-to-day progress of the Development Team. They rarely (or never) miss a Daily Scrum, they’re involved during the Daily Scrum and it might just be that they’re asking individual team members what they’ve done, what they’re going to do and if there’s anything blocking them.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

Malinawan, PMP Choosing the appropriate tools and techniques to your advantage is essential for professionals working in the dynamic field of project management who must contend with issues like project budget constraints, tight deadlines, and constantly changing requirements.

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ProProfs Project Management

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Usually, it is considered that low budget is a prime reason why maximum projects fail, but that’s not true every time. According to a report from Gartner , projects funded over 1 million dollars have a 50% higher failure rate than ones budgeted below $350,000. Ineffective corporate governance. Such as: Better budget control .

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 6, 2020

As project managers and even as team members of a project, we all know that leadership and management is a field on its own, even referred to as a scientific field. . Right from smaller investments to multi-million dollar projects, it requires specific and strict plans that everyone in the team should stick to. . Initiation Phase.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

B – Project Management Terms Backlog Backlog is a term from the Agile methodology Scrum, but is also used across industries to track every single thing that is needed to complete a product in development. Baseline A baseline is an estimate of the project’s scope, schedule and costs that is created during the planning stage.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Lean Event Chain 392

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 28, 2020

Professor Flyvbjerg’s evidence showed that out of 12,000 major projects studied globally, fewer than half were on budget, fewer than 8% also on schedule, and only 0.5% As expected, it has a 100% record in delivery on schedule, but no Olympic Games has ever met the original budget (mean cost over-run 172%).

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Online PM Courses

MAY 7, 2018

If your team has a common purpose and approaches risk in a consistent way, which reflects that purpose, that will protect your project and make it more secure. Team members need to be constantly aware of risk, and share a common attitude to it. You and your team need to do as well as think about risk. What is Risk Culture?

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Risk Risk Management Underperforming Technical Team Governance 91

Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

All projects are governed by hard rules like scope, deadlines, and budget. When you’re wondering whether you’re on track and within budget, the good or bad news can be found in the baseline. For example, let’s assume that you’ve spent $10,000 of the budget allocated for your client’s new food service app.

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Velociteach

JULY 3, 2023

Accurate documentation makes teams more efficient and effective. She’s also an expert on productivity, documentation, governance, risk, and compliance; and has delivered 15 years’ experience as an auditor, accountant, analyst, problem solver, and independent consultant. She’s based in Calgary, Alberta. What are some of those signs?

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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Perhaps the most significant reason for the slow growth of many needed project management changes was due to senior management’s desire for standardization of governance and execution for the multitude of traditional projects managed for external clients. Being on time and on budget is not necessarily success.

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Techno-PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Mitigation strategies are now successfully developed that range from personnel to software assistance. While prevention tactics depend solely on accidental occurrences of risk factors, preparedness and recovery depend on building contingency plans, robust budget estimation , and management skills. How to Mitigate Them?

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Planview

OCTOBER 7, 2020

I was fortunate to learn many things that are applicable to any business leader or team aiming to improve company performance and drive better business outcomes, which I have laid out in this article and plan to cover in future articles as well.  The trouble was, our teams were repeating the same mistakes in our project delivery.

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

in sustainable development and environment, and he has over 25 years of experience in various areas of project management including government, finance, consulting, manufacturing, and education. And he’s a contributor to the development of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Our guest is Dr. Joel Carboni.

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Productivity Land

MAY 25, 2023

It’s important to stay up to date with the latest advancements in modern workforce management solutions to ensure your team is well-organized and productive. This blog post will explore the most popular modern workforce management solutions and how they can help you better manage your team. What is workforce management?

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Monitoring Software Review 79

Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This article will explore the key elements of an effective BCP, the steps involved in its development, the importance of implementing the plan, and how technology can enhance the resilience of businesses. Recovery Strategies: Develop plans to restore operations and minimize downtime.

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Technical Review Planning Underperforming Technical Team Infrastructure 36

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If, for example, a project manager believes a member of his or her team is a fast and effective worker, each time that team member works fast and effectively or is told by a colleague about the work that has been done fast and effectively, the project manager will consider his or her belief to be well-founded.

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Appfluence

MARCH 23, 2021

Designing and developing goods or services Monitoring inventory across a supply chain, Ensuring quality control, Managing customer distribution Maintaining facilities Forecasting for changes. Forecasting offers both optimism and an incentive for the company to plan for bad outcomes. Strategies In Operations Management.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 11, 2023

Therefore, construction management interfaces with all three parties in order to make sure the project is delivered on time and within its budget , if not ideally under budget. It’s ideal for short timelines and fixed budgets, but not new construction. Construction Contracts. The Construction Management Process. Preconstrucion.

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MPUG

APRIL 15, 2022

Melanie, here with team MPUG. Melanie: Jeff is currently the Lead Course Developer for Edwards Performance Solutions, as such he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. Melanie: Hello, welcome.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This is a good starting point for answering the mail on the notion that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impact of those decisions. Estimates are for the business, why would the business no longer want an estimate of cost, schedule, or technical performance of the provided capabilities?

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Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 28

MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. Well, because according to PMI, the Project Management Institute, 45% of projects experience scope expansion, 32% failed on their budgeting, and 16% were deemed complete failures. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs.

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Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Engineering 59

Workzone

JANUARY 5, 2021

Some project management software works great for small teams, but will not scale for larger businesses and enterprises. Even if they have most of the functions you need, they don’t have the scope for working with bigger teams and more projects. Perfect for large teams to coordinate across complex, multi-layered projects.

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Software Review Software 2021 Underperforming Technical Team 49

Planio

JUNE 19, 2023

Projects fail for many reasons — but one of the most common is poor planning. In fact, studies have shown that around 27% of projects fail because of inaccurate task estimates, with another 11% failing due to undefined task dependencies. Estimate each activity with the PERT formula 5. That’s where PERT comes in.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. By education and training. That is a huge amount.

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Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Governance 52

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The original agile author's quote shows that systems engineering is missing from his development of software using Agile. While traditionally applied to product development, systems engineering can also be applied to service and enterprise systems. The MOE's belong to the End User - this is the what part of the development project.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Understanding this mismatch is key to ensuring your team’s talents are used effectively and your business thrives. Continuous investment in employee development (onboarding programs, ongoing training, fostering a learning culture) is vital to prevent mismatches. Skills mismatches cost organizations billions of dollars worldwide.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Artificial Inteligence 52

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. Of late, Cone of Uncertainty has become the mantra of No Estimates advocates claiming that data is needed BEFORE the Cone is of any use.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute (in this post, cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management.

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