The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Risk and Assumptions Logs The assumptions and risk logs are primary tools for managing these processes. More sophisticated tools are integrated databases such as Smartsheet, SharePoint, or purpose-built tools. Reducing “friction” increases the likelihood the tools will be used. Spreadsheets are often used as simple lists.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

By Alan Zucker Disciplined Agile® (DA) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) are two popular, second-generation agile methodologies. They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

The Sprint Planning is a core event that defines how your customers’ lives will improve with the following Product Increment. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? Also, the Developers need to create a plan on how to accomplish their forecast. .

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Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2020

Getting infrastructure and remote working tools is a good start. Now, more than ever we need dependable collaboration tools for high bandwidth communication and conversations. Tools fail, processes stop, things go wrong. . As experienced people know, tools don’t ensure learning or adaptability. But is that enough?

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The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The concepts of scrum are powerful in business, not only in software development but also in other areas. This post reviews the basics of agile scrum roles, ceremonies, and their impact on developing strategy and managing projects. Agile Scrum Roles. Agile Scrum Ceremonies. The developers perform the work.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

Sprint Planning is a core event, defining how your customers’ lives will improve with the next Product Increment. The purpose of the Sprint Planning is to align the Development Team and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. Diagram source: Scrum.org. Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns.

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

My fellow PST, Glaudia Califano, and I were sitting in a café (at a time prior to the current lockdown due to Covid-19), having agreed to meet up with a Business Analyst who had reached out to us to have a chat about Scrum and Agile. It could be that the team has too much to do at once, or the PBIs are too big or vaguely defined.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

This is a slightly broader definition of “front-end” that we normally hear from, say, web app developers. If those worlds are not connected, then there’s a limit to the level of business agility the IT department can support. Half-Agile Transformations.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Safe Scrum is a framework that has gained significant popularity in recent years for enhancing team performance in an agile development methodology. It is built upon the foundation of Agile principles and values, providing a set of guidelines, roles, and ceremonies that enable teams to work together seamlessly.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The project management plan (Plan) is a powerful tool. Existing organizational assets, such as tools, templates, and standard practices, influence the Plan. Mature organizations often have required or recommended tools and procedures. There is a range of options, from predictive to agile.

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. The project planning meeting is a proven mechanism to develop an effective project plan.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies 8. According to the Association for Project Management : “Project management is the application of processes, methods, skills, knowledge, and experience to achieve specific objectives, according to defined acceptance criteria, within agreed parameters.”

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MPUG

JANUARY 31, 2022

Many times, managing a Hybrid-Agile project with a sole Lean-Agile approach doesn’t meet the needs of an organization, the expectations of stakeholders, required delivery frequency of customers, or address uncertainties associated with engineering work. This project is largely focused on development, employing both Waterfall and Agile.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

Another article written more from an Agile Practitioner’s perspective is RGP’s How Business Agility Helps You Thrive in the Age of Disruption. Brown, Director and Agile Coach at the Hartford Insurance. Business agility mindset begins with a mental shift. I recommend both pieces as must-reads.

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. But a full Agile transformation isn’t just about the development process you use — it’s a way to bring creativity, innovation, and lean operations to every aspect of your business. Start with an Agile pilot project.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint—just to name a few.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

When our projects undertake defined, repeatable work using technologies and approaches our organizations have experience in, then uncertainty and change rates are typically low and manageable. Approaches like lean, kanban and agile work well in these uncertain, high-change environments.

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The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Agile is a broad term, and there are many ways to look at it. From a strategic project management perspective, this post examines some key agile methods and there impact of strategy and project management. An Agile Methods List Overview. Are there more agile methods? Applicability of Each Agile Method.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Agile ceremonies are the fuel that keeps your development team moving forward. But what if you’re not entirely comfortable managing and running Agile ceremonies? Agile ceremonies get abandoned when teams stop seeing the value in them. What are Agile ceremonies? A ‘quick-start’ guide to the 5 Agile ceremonies.

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Agilemania

MARCH 19, 2021

Scrum vs. Kanban is one of the most trending comparisons in the world of agile methodology! We often use these terms while talking about the agile way of solving problems. Though Scrum is one of the most popular methods in agile, organizations are recently choosing Kanban. Software Development. Developers.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Then, we will dive into the topic of Agile PMO, its relevance, and a number of roles that can be played by such a PMO. With this background, let’s proceed towards the concept of Agile PMO. The first question that comes to mind in having a PMO coupled with an Agile approach is this: Is a PMO really needed at all in an Agile setting?

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Leading Agile

MAY 10, 2021

I walked into the conference room to meet with the VP of enterprise Agile Transformation. It’s been three weeks since I joined a team of highly experienced Agile coaches. The VP stated the Agile teams were in ‘chaos’ since being taught the concept of Lean Agile portfolios. Needless to say, it was about me. What is trust?

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

But instead of a calendar, your ‘must-have’ tool is a project schedule. Your schedule is a guide, but it’s also a tool to push back against scope creep or fight for more help. Define your project goals. How do Agile teams create a project schedule? Planio: Best for teams of all sizes (Agile and traditional).

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Redbooth

APRIL 26, 2018

If you work in tech or any industry where things change fast, you probably are familiar with agile project management. Agile methods are baked into productivity tech, from Trello to Airtable to Redbooth, and can improve any large body of work, from ad campaigns to app design. Agile project management basics: project as product.

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Planio

MAY 9, 2022

When Google decided to research what quality defines the most successful teams, they ended up with an unexpected answer: psychological safety. This is also closely related to the Agile idea of being a servant leader. It’s not the same as implementing a new software development process or following a checklist when you finish a project.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 21, 2020

Like many Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Agile Managers, I am beginning to understand organizations are complex adaptive systems. These are the tools I was missing to understand complex problems and make valuable CLD’s. . Getting the teams to define shared goals is a good intervention to change the behavior of the system.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. Agile to Agility Website. So, I’m the CEO of a company called Leading Agile, started about 11 years ago, I’m based in Atlanta, Georgia. Listen now.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Scrum vs. Kanban is one of the most trending comparisons in the world of agile methodology! We often use these terms while talking about the agile way of solving problems. Though Scrum is one of the most popular methods in agile, organizations are recently choosing Kanban. Software Development. Developers.

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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

By focusing on how you manage projects that land on your desk, you can develop a system that helps you build momentum and get everyone in your team on the same page. Without resource management tools that let you allocate your budget accordingly, you could easily exceed your initial estimate.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For example, if your designers have a 90% utilization rate while your developers are at 30%, it’s time to reevaluate. Read: How to find the best resource planning tool Factors impacting agency utilization rates Agency utilization rates are influenced by many internal and external factors.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? And how would we know that this new Agile world was any good? What other conceptual gaps?

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Digite

MARCH 1, 2017

I was learning several new concepts including Lean, Agile, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Project Program Management, etc. where we have a bunch of powerful tools! However, I had not seen Kanban being applied to software development, project management, etc. Our Cadences. Putting my Knowledge to Test!

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Such a study is holistic; it involves looking at the organizational design, technical capabilities, culture and knowledge, and type of control and metrics used to define success. Some time ago, I was teaching a Professional Agile Leadership class. I get these kinds of request, usually because of three main reasons: . And it hit me.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

s webinar, Use Agile Project Management with MS Project, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Welcome to Use Agile Project Management with MS Project. He also goes by Jim and he is super excited to be with him, our Agile expert for the session. He’s our Agile certified expert today.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Project Management (#APM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Risk Management (#RM).

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Leading Agile

JUNE 5, 2018

In Part 1, we summarized the goals of the exercise: To develop a microservice and set up a CI/CD pipeline in the cloud without using any locally-installed development tools. This will be the development environment. ” For instance, they would fully define the database schema before starting any other work.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. It’s about creating business outcomes.

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