The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So, picture this: you are transitioning from your current position into a project management career. The industry didn’t matter; it was about translating my work experience into specific project management industry-recognized terms and managing projects. What are the Essential Project Management Buzzwords?

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Techno-PM

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Project Execution is a project management strategy that incorporates continuous processes and activities to monitor, control, and communicate progress on projects. Download Project Management Templates ! Controlling (ensuring effectiveness). The four steps in Project Execution are: 1.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Managment Processes. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Top Habits of Successful Project Managers. Open Loop / Closed Loop Project Controls. Ten Rules for Common Sense Program Management.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

What is A System for Value Delivery in Project Management Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you a project manager looking to improve your project management skills and help your organization grow? Take the next step towards mastering the value delivery system and project management. What is a System for Value Delivery?

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 18, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you a Project Manager struggling to align your project objectives efforts with your organizational objectives? In this article, we will dive deep into organizational and project governance and systems in project management. Ready to take your project management efforts to the next level?

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ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 18, 2020

Project Management is the art of coordinating resources and directing working groups to execute components of work so that each group delivers components that can be tied together into a wholesome deliverable (contracted scope of work) within schedule and budget. — Project Management Institute. Initiating.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For any closed loop control system ‒ let’s assume we want to manage our project with such a system ‒ has a signal representing the current state of the system. For your Honeywell or Nest controller on the wall, that sample rate is measured in seconds. Stochastic process control is the field of study. https://goo.gl/DP6Jw

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The Strategic Project Manager

APRIL 22, 2022

This post examines what the Satir Change Model is, how it is an important consideration for strategy, and how project managers can leverage it to provide leadership. If the change is one being executed as part of a program, it stands a chance of being less painful if managed right. Strategy and the Satir Model for Change.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and competitive work environment, effective workload management is crucial for maximizing productivity and achieving success. Managing multiple tasks, deadlines, and responsibilities can be overwhelming, but with the right strategies and techniques, you can master workload management and enhance your productivity.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design and manage complex systems over their life cycles. Systems engineering has its roots in the fundamentals, principles, and models of foundational systems sciences, and associated management and engineering sciences.

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nTask

APRIL 28, 2021

A study by BCG/MIT finds that 90% of executives deem sustainability to be important, yet only 60% of companies incorporate sustainability as part of their business strategy, and even less (25%) integrate sustainability into the core of their business model. Add control points and measurements. 10 Top Process Improvement Tools.

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

All companies desire to remain competitive and continuously improve their project management performance by becoming more efficient and more effective in the execution of their project management processes. The internal organizational units can also be responsible for evaluating external literature related to project management.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

When evaluating the effectiveness of a business, consider the alignment between the business’s goals and its strategies. A company that effectively aligns its strategies with its objectives is more likely to achieve success and remain competitive in the marketplace.

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Techno-PM

JULY 5, 2023

It also helps keep the project on budget and reduces the risk of project failure. In this article, we will discuss 10 ways to maintain consistent project quality, providing tips and strategies that can be implemented to improve the chances of project success. Download Project Management Templates !

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Techno-PM

JULY 5, 2023

It also helps keep the project on budget and reduces the risk of project failure. In this article, we will discuss 10 ways to maintain consistent project quality, providing tips and strategies that can be implemented to improve the chances of project success. Download Project Management Templates !

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Techno-PM

JULY 5, 2023

It also helps keep the project on budget and reduces the risk of project failure. In this article, we will discuss 10 ways to maintain consistent project quality, providing tips and strategies that can be implemented to improve the chances of project success. Download Project Management Templates !

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MindGenius

JUNE 26, 2019

Project Management Terms for Team Leaders. Confused by Project Management terms? So we have made it easy for all you Team Leaders and Managers out there who are running projects and brought you a list of what we think are the key PM terms you should know. You’re not alone! PRINCE2, NVP, Analogous Estimating etc.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 5, 2017

and the connections between each Process are made to form a Closed Loop control systems needed to manage any project. These charts are an extract from the book Performance-Based Project Management: Increasing the Probability of Project Success and the abstracted training materials Handbook. Hope is not a Strategy.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Timetables, deliverables, resources and even risks—everything that is involved with a project is wrapped up inside the schedule. It’s up to an extremely adept project manager to enact better schedule management for their teams. 6 Schedule Management Tips. Never Manage Your Project Schedule in a Silo.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Strategy (#Strategy).

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Now To Risk Management. Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

Managing Cost, Schedule, & Technical Performance Risk Is The Basis Of Good Project Management. Risk management is essential to the success of any significant project. Certain information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes are often unknown until the project is underway.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The project and portfolio management (PPM) software market is changing. In this article we look at emerging software in the PPM space and discuss how its selection and implementation needs to be done in line with an overarching digital strategy. Digitalization and Collaboration. Stick or Twist? Finding A Tool.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

Root Cause Analysis is Risk Management, that asks the question what is the condition or activity that will create a risk to the success of our project? With this information, the management of the project installs corrective or preventive actions to remove or reduce as much as possible those conditions and activities.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Project management terminology can be complicated. It doesn’t matter whether you’re working towards your PMP certification or simply managing projects casually in your organization, knowing core project management terms always helps. All Project Management Terms. All work is divided into short bursts called "sprints".

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Designing, building, testing, and deploying complex systems is fraught with risk. And as always risk comes from uncertainty. Much has been written about the sources of risk and how to Manage in the Presence of Uncertainty (This briefing describes how risk is managed for each element of the Integrated Master Plan). .

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives. In the context of risk management, uncertainty exists whenever the knowledge or understanding of an event, consequence, or likelihood is inadequate or incomplete ? ISO 31000:2009, ISO 17666:2016 and ISO 11231:2010 Risk is Uncertainty that Matters. Programmatic ?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Systems engineering is a methodical, multi-disciplinary approach for design, realization, technical management, operations, and retirement of a system. Systems Management is the Science of Systems Engineering. Systems Management is focused on rigorously and efficiently managing the development and operation of complex systems.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

Risk interaction within systems and subsystems, between functional and physical elements, can also be modeled with DSM. DSM models interacting risks in a graphical representation produce numerical simulations of the risk and impacts on the probability of program success. Traditional risk models cannot model loops.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

Risk interaction within systems and subsystems, between functional and physical elements, can also be modeled with DSM. DSM models interacting risks in a graphical representation produce numerical simulations of the risk and impacts on the probability of program success. Traditional risk models cannot model loops.

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Resource Guru

JUNE 14, 2022

But a great project scheduler goes a step further by placing a focus on the wellbeing of the humans in your workplace – reducing project fatigue and ensuring your team members can manage their daily workload and stay physically, mentally, and emotionally productive. Time management. Resource management. Collaboration.

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