The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

When the Department of Defense (DoD) decided to expand the need for more technical projects following World War II, pressure was placed upon the aerospace and defense community to develop expertise in project management. Unfortunately, the same PMs often were quite poor at writing reports. degree in a technical discipline.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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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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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

To meet these demands, many companies have adopted new ways to integrate development, operations, and other departments as well as use Agile and DevOps principles. Read on to discover more about the importance of Agile and DevOps in software development. Agile vs DevOps: Two Paradigms for Software Development.

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MPUG

APRIL 11, 2022

War is hell, and not something any sane person plans for (outside of the government, that is). Well…actually no, they do not, nor do very few others outside of government and humanitarian agencies have procedures, techniques, or plans for the unfortunate event of an all-out war within a country or region. PM Stories from the Front.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2018

A great Scrum Master is able to facilitate an event that leads to a high-quality decision that is owned by the whole group attending that event. . So we can also say that the Scrum Master is partly responsible for poor decision generated by the group of people. Some Scrum Teams may craft their own prime directives.

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Proofhub

JANUARY 4, 2021

The project manager can use the charter to keep project team members and stakeholders on the same page as the project progresses. For example, setting a project timeline for team members and stakeholders will give them an idea of what they are supposed to be doing at any given point. Manage your projects, teams and tasks smartly.

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MPUG

JUNE 5, 2023

It represents Project Managers, offers them a body of knowledge and a professional home, and develops thinking that informs and advances our profession. This is a positive motivator for Project Management professionals to continue their growth and development, holding our profession to a high standard. All-inclusive Leadership.

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Herding Cats

JULY 23, 2017

There is always some post about leadership, innovation, and personnel development around agile project management, Having deployed one of the early agile development programs (eXtreme Programming) in a mission critical IT organization, I was part of an approach that is known to work for building leadership and teams.

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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. So it actually has a wide range.

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Step 5: Be able to implement the steps necessary to close the performance gap between your company and other companies/organizations. This knowledge must include an understanding of the current strengths and especially weaknesses needing improvement. This time, the results showed that they were poor in project management.

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Susanne Madsen

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

By appreciating and learning about the basic human needs that govern the choices you make, not only will you better understand yourself, you will also better understand the people you lead. Another, rather poor way to get this need satisfied is to put other people down and to elevate ourselves so that we feel we are better than others.

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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. . But while many people think they are fit to be leaders of large groups, there are things they need to be educated about first if they intend to be successful managers.

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MPUG

MARCH 28, 2021

But good communication grows complex as the scope of the project increases, more people are involved, and teams are scattered around the world. Stakeholders are obvious audiences for project communications, but other groups often need or want project information. Team members work on the project every day.

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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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Online PM Courses

JULY 15, 2018

So the metaphor of a chain of causes and effects is a poor one. It has everything to do with you and your project team. By taking time to reflect together on your experiences and how your choices led to outcomes, you create learning, development, growth… And, ultimately, wisdom. Trace Cause and Effect. Driving Change.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Today, Mike Cottmeyer sits down with Andrew to discuss how LeadingAgile is talking about OKRs and KPIs, the impact governance and teaming strategies have on your ability to run them effectively, why your project mentality might be getting in the way, and how you can get started using them in your business. It’s a fun topic.

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Binfire

MARCH 6, 2018

Too bad these companies do not advertise how they organize their workforce and share with everyone the amazing benefits they get from turning their companies into Agile enterprises. This is a fact that close to 60% of all projects fail completely or finish late and over budget. You ask why Agile? I am glad you asked.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Enterprise environmental factors can be defined as conditions that aren’t under the immediate control of the project team. Both being beyond the control of the project team, and even the organization that initiated the project, enterprise environmental factors can affect the outcome of the project, both negatively and positively.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 19, 2023

In the past, engaging team members effectively in project assignments was not given the attention it is receiving today. Projects were often short term and team members were seen as a project expense and to be removed as quickly as possible after the work was completed. How much authority will the worker have?

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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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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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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

More often than not in kind of either the IT product development space or IT services space. We like to consider ourselves kind of a full stack consultancy in the sense that you know, obviously, you have to deal with the work surface levels and what the teams are doing but you know, how do you orchestrate teams across dependency boundaries?

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Teamweek

AUGUST 4, 2020

This meant that I could now work with the Story Development team. In my office, that team begins its workday at 6:30 in the morning. In March, she described the lack of response on work-from-home policies, causing confusion among parents at the company on what to do once the city closed schools on March 17.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Not something you’ll use on every project but your business might routinely need to use EVA if, for example, you do government contract work in the US. Producing the SWOT analysis for our 3-year plans for the IT team was one of the highlights of my year – my boss might be surprised to hear me say that! Affinity grouping.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 4, 2022

It is a topic that comes up time and time again, in my Facebook group, and with people that I mentor, because frankly, the days of having one massive, great big project to manage, are gone. We’ll be looking at Milestone planning, dependency management, multi stakeholder management, governance across multiple projects.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 11, 2023

This is accomplished by a combination of experience and education that directs the construction operations through the development of a detailed schedule and budget. Multiple award task order contract (MATOC) is often found in military or government construction work. Construction Contracts. Preconstrucion. Construction.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 29, 2023

It doesn’t mean they are bad. Agile is an incremental and iterative approach for developing software products. It’s typically best for small teams. The most common small team Agile methodologies are Scrum and XP, maybe Kanban, or a combination of the three. Kanban focuses more on flow and less on teams and time-boxes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 25, 2022

You’ll learn tips and techniques for engaging senior leaders in the role so you can build effective working relationships and act as a team. to support the team at the request of the project manager. They will be able to identify new risks and make the team aware of what is happening elsewhere in the organization.

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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. Closed Loop Stochastic Adaptive control in the presence of Evolving Uncertainty. This is a common problem in low maturity development organizations.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. We have these small teams working on troubled projects. We pull the customer close. Eventually, they landed on the ideas of Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration and Deployment.

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MPUG

MARCH 18, 2021

Jeff is currently the lead course developer for Edward’s Performance Solution and oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. Number one, really plan how to lead your team through a successful SIPOC workshop.

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Planio

JANUARY 26, 2021

Leading a team through the triple-pronged crisis of a global pandemic, massive economic recession, and widespread social unrest was something I never imagined myself doing. 5 ways to help your team during a crisis. You’re guiding your product team through a world where customer needs have dramatically changed (and will continue to).

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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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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You leave like pretty close and you’re thinking about this in very similar ways. And I was working at version one at the time and so like I’m like all in like, not like team level scrum. And that was about the time that I was starting to develop the teams backlogs, working testing software. – Mm hmm.

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