The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Change Management The approach to plan and implement strategies that guide individuals and organizations through a change (e.g., Lean A project management philosophy that aims to maximize value while minimizing waste. Lean Six Sigma Combining Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to eliminate defects and waste. a project).

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Agilemania

MARCH 10, 2022

It takes the help of principles from different knowledge of bodies such as lean thinking and system thinking. . Lean Startup cycle . The SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager Certification is for SAFe Product Owners and Product Managers who want to develop the skill sets that are necessary to deliver value within the Lean enterprise.

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Planio

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

No matter how agile and lean you try to run your projects there are inevitably going to be a lot of people involved in getting you from project proposal to launch day. Get buy-in by consulting early and often. They direct the company’s strategy and also have a large interest in its outcome. What exactly is a project stakeholder?

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JANUARY 30, 2020

Agile is moving beyond technology and is now widely used in financial services, government, and professional services companies. As an agile consultant and instructor, I am often asked, “I just received my Scrum Master certification, now what do I do?”. This blog post is written by Strategy Execution Instructor Alan Zucker.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Be it monitoring and control, collaboration, stakeholders onboarding, change management, and governance methods, the problems only keep increasing. SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps. Let’s get kickstarted.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

Mark Phillips runs a consultancy focused on high performing projects. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) I think when we think about how we are delivering our projects, we need to focus on Business Value, Customer Satisfaction, Governance and less about coming in on time and budget. Ranjit Sidhu. Helena Lui. Helena Lui. Vasily Klimko.

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Agilemania

MARCH 21, 2023

SAFe Team Kanban is a Lean-Agile method (Figure 17) that helps Agile Teams facilitate the flow of value by visualizing workflow, establishing Work in Process (WIP) limits, delivering value continuously, measuring throughput, and improving their process. These articles can be accessed from the icons shown in Figure 16.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The focus is on developing prototypes, a minimum viable product to test product effectiveness, and product launch strategies. The need for identifying the quality and compliance regulations set by government bodies is paramount because of its impact on product development, time-to-market, and cost implications.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

According to Zippia Research , the US government has lost a whopping $32 billion because of failed IT projects. They are sometimes called Scrum masters, Agile consultants, kanban coaches, or Agile facilitators. This means an Enterprise Agile Coach will train managers and employees of large-scale governance structures.

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Resource Guru

JUNE 7, 2023

Examples of project management methodologies (some of which we’ll take a closer look at later in this article) include Waterfall, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Lean, PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environments), and PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge). An example of the Lean project management methodology workflow.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

And so if you show up and like you say, “Hey, I want to adopt Agile,” but you know, you’re not familiar with the strategies or Agile governance strategies or such, right? ” There are a bunch of different things, right? There’s just a lot of stuff to unwind. I think SAFE is fine.

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nTask

MAY 3, 2019

Each year, the PMI consults with industry experts to reevaluate the fee structure for candidates who wish to get by with quality education at an affordable rate. CompTIA Project+ mostly has to deal with aggregating feedback from respondents, government representatives and research institutes. CompTIA Project+ certification fee is $285.

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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. Okay, cool. That was awesome.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Every organization – whether for profit, government, or not-for-profit – needs a viable Business Model. Boston Consulting Group has identified six components that typically comprise a Business Model, depicted in the chart at right. Boston Consulting Group has outlined four approaches to Business Model Innovation.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

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? And he’ll come in and consult for you and customized model for you and do all those things.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Solution: Develop a robust marketing strategy, network, leverage referrals, and showcase your agency’s expertise through thought leadership. Solution: Develop a scaling growth strategy, invest in scalable infrastructure, and hire strategically. Solution: Stay informed, adapt strategies, and embrace innovation and change.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

E – Project Management Terms Earned value management (EVM) A way to measure project performance, and is commonly used in government projects. ” G – Project Management Terms Henry Gantt American mechanical engineer and management consultant who developed the Gantt chart in 1910.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

An effective portfolio management strategy requires an in-depth analysis to understand where a company is, where they want to be and planning how they are going to get there. Such tools provide a solution to establish a prioritization process for projects that helps organizations govern their existing and future efforts.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In this video, Mike Cottmeyer sits down with our Managing Director of Consulting to discuss some of the challenges associated with moving your applications to the cloud and what you can do about it. Orchestration dependencies, teaming strategies, how we think about products, how we think about funding.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In this video, Mike Cottmeyer sits down with our Managing Director of Consulting to discuss some of the challenges associated with moving your applications to the cloud and what you can do about it. Orchestration dependencies, teaming strategies, how we think about products, how we think about funding.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Companies, governments, and such have always had a keen interest in squeezing as much work out of people as possible; you know, for building railroads , for agricultural work , and other things. Companies tried the strategies that had always worked before. I’m sure they are obvious to you, as well: Lean 5S. Corrupt police.

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Velociteach

JULY 3, 2023

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. I’m a firm believer in Lean in general – Lean, Agile, call it what you want. She’s based in Calgary, Alberta.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 3, 2017

Getting automation to work for you (not as a replacement strategy), enabling teams and organizations to think more strategically. Management may consult the analytics for usage trends before negotiating the next license with the platform vendor. Implement lean manufacturing practices. Moving your software systems to the cloud.

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International Institute for Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throw in the rich taxonomy of terms such as Waterfall, Lean, Agile, Scrum, XP, Sprints, phases, increments, and releases, and it’s easy to get lost in the terminology. It is very common in construction, infrastructure, and government programs. . Karim Radwan is a Director at Probity Strategy Consulting and a Trainer with IIL.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

And so, from how we do governance and how we do project planning and how we do organizational structure, all those kinds of things, right, so there’s this big hop. Because those are the things that fundamentally get in the way how we govern, right, how we deal with cross cutting concerns. We are building an internal tool.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

She’s a seasoned business leader, a consultant, an author, and educator known for her expertise in project management leadership and creating inclusive workplaces that understand and support individuals with dyslexia. You talk about being able to lean into discomfort. And her sister is Madeline Szostak Hoge.

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Velociteach

MARCH 4, 2024

He explains why so many projects miss the mark on delivering measurable benefits and shares strategies to implement to maximize value. We want to explore the project manager’s perspective on benefits realization and discover strategies for maximizing project value. Are your projects truly delivering the promised benefits?

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Knowledge of these risks helps prepare mitigation strategies and foresee possible hurdles. Project initiation ensures the project's goals align with the broader organizational strategy. Consult Internal Stakeholders : Talk to department heads and team members to identify internal challenges a new project could solve.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Command-and-Control Culture : A culture rooted in traditional management methods, leading to top-down decisions without team consultation​​. Organizational Structure: Lack of Transparency : Not being transparent about vision and strategy, hindering Scrum Teams from becoming self-managing​​.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

And what we are is we’re a consultancy that’s focused on doing Agile Transformation specifically. What does it look like when we’re trying to figure out how to do agile governance? It’s about the ability to pivot that strategy when we learn new things about what the market needs.

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MPUG

MARCH 18, 2021

One of the ways that I wanted to kick this off, was just to say, out of the three sessions that we have, this one in particular will lay the foundation for workshop strategies as well as workshop questions. Those of you who study up on Lean Six Sigma, although it’s not exclusive just to Lean Six Sigma. Secondly, right?

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

I have one of our principal consultants named Andy Fine. And so maybe we’re doing safe or we’re doing something like a leading agile where we have a lean agile program and portfolio governance on top of a bunch of teams. Introductions Mike Cottmeyer Hey everybody, this is Mike Cottmeyer. How are you guys doing?

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So we start with culture, maybe we go to practices and then all those teaming strategies and dependencies and governance and metrics and all that stuff that we struggle with all the time will just kind of work itself out. He goes, that’s the domain of consultants, that’s the domain of organizations to figure that out.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 20, 2023

And we started talking about teaming strategies, and we started talking about where backlogs come from and what enterprise governance looks like and what we measure and what we control. It hasn’t been treated as an organizational design and governance problem. It’s kind of consulting 101.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

And that was based on some work I’d done, as a consultant several years ago the company was acquiring a bunch of other like power companies, and we were doing capability modeling. And then tying that together into a network and then applying Lean principles to designing an organization that can get stuff done. – Yeah.

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MPUG

MARCH 11, 2021

As a coach, Ravi has helped countless clients, including management consultants, technology startups, and Fortune 500 company leaders unlocking their higher performance and building careers that they can be proud of. Ravi Raman: Now, like any good system, they’re governed by a few principles. Where are we going to find leverage?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. We’re trying to connect a strategy. We have to figure out how to install governance. You guys remember them?

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