The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Agile A flexible and dynamic approach to project management that allows for iterative updates during defined time blocks, which allows for incremental value. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development team members) who work collaboratively to deliver value in an Agile project.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Keep reading to discover the definition and responsibilities of a Product Owner and 30 product owner interview questions that will help you accurately assess candidates’ technical skills and personality traits. Quick Links: How to define your expectations for the Product Owner role? How do you define the role of a Product Owner?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 1, 2024

For other teams or even individuals, they might use kanban more loosely to order tasks in interesting new ways to help the team storyboard new features, ideate on products, define new categories for priorities, or arrange items by theme or color. The kanban board is one way to keep track of a team’s workflow.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But first, we need to define what a project budget is. A project budget is the total projected costs needed to complete a project over a defined period of time. Your project budget will be reviewed and revived throughout the project, hopefully with the help of a project budgeting software. Use Historical Data.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s competitive business landscape, having a stellar product development team can make all the difference between failure and success. Building a team of talented individuals who possess the right skills, expertise, and mindset can foster innovation, drive growth, and ultimately propel your business forward.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 27, 2020

TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Review with a Distributed Team. This seventh article now looks into organizing a remote Sprint Review with a distributed team: How to practice the review with virtual Liberating Structures, including and giving a voice to team members, stakeholders, and customers.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Let’s define it, explain when it’s used and explore how to make one. These two data points allow project managers to determine how efficiently their team is working by comparing the work they’ve done to the total amount of work planned. What you need is a burn up chart. Not familiar with a burn up chart?

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But assessing a candidate’s skills can take many forms – from simple programming tests to live coding challenges and take-home assignments. Use them in conjunction with each other to develop the best assessment process. Review a candidate’s entire portfolio. How do you decide? General cognitive abilities.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

You’ll find everything you need for your product to reach a successful conclusion and it’ll guide the development team throughout the release process. Agile Sprint Plan Template The roadmap is an overview, but it’s not a tool that’ll be used by your development team. Learn more 4.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

On average, IT projects come with more complexity and risk, and can quickly fall to pieces without proper due diligence, management, and leadership. ⚔️ Same situation: They’ll lead experts such as Software Developers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, or Infrastructure Managers. Manages a defined project budget. ?️

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 13, 2020

But it’s best defined by scrum as a model. Scrum is a way to manage a project within an agile framework and is made up of three roles: product owner, scrum master and team. A sprint is an iteration in the development cycle of a project. It defines a duration usually no more than two to four weeks.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Similar to the waterfall methodology , the phase-gate process is a linear project management concept punctuated by stages of development followed by benchmarks for assessment. Before we define the five phases, every project is kickstarted with a preliminary ideation phase. Phase 3: Development.

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NimbleWork

MAY 1, 2024

Information symbols replaced material symbols, representing communication channels, data flow, and decision-making processes. Such as requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment in software development, or planning, execution, monitoring, and optimization in marketing campaigns.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2023

So it probably sounds a bit odd to want to define problem solving before we go any further. You could also interview experts, review lessons learned or innovative solutions from previous projects, research what the rest of your industry is doing or consult customers on what they’d like to see. There are no silly ideas at this point!

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

ProjectManager is a cloud-based software that gives product managers and project managers real-time data to make better decisions. Release planning lets software development teams plan better, direct their efforts more effectively and release projects incrementally, which helps the customer experience. Learn More! Learn More!

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nTask

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This is why implementing a well-defined and well-thought-out web design workflow is going to help guide your clients through every single stage of the project development process so that they can accurately know what to expect and when. Defining Goals and Target Audience. Reviewing and Approval. Improved Focus.

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nTask

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They will help improve the communication channels that are present in the company, resulting in improved communication and collaboration between the team leaders and project managers. These elements will also help the hiring managers, team leaders, and project managers to make better hiring decisions regarding employees in the future.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2020

Conversation : Developers, exploring the card, communicate with the Product Owner, in order to gain knowledge about the business domain and to be able to offer valuable ideas for implementation. Many important aspects bypassed the developer’s attention turns into re-work of existing features. How about stakeholders and customers?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2023

The Initial ChatGPT Prompt to Explore the New Mode GPT-4 I used the following initial prompt to prime ChatGPT: “ Are you using the same training data as GPT-3.0 there are differences in the training data used for each model. The primary difference is the time period of the data. GPT-3 and GPT-3.5

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

I advise to start finding one person to be the single Product Owner for all teams. The other “fake PO’s” should be moved inside the development teams as subject matter experts so they can provide detailed requirements. The Product Owner should develop an inspiring vision and a plan to make it happen.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Information that a Scrum Master might require from a Product Owner when wanting to update their team on the product, or a market’s reaction to it, would include any information that could provide the Scrum Team with an understanding of why something is of value to customers. Is estimated by the Scrum Team. Question 15: INVEST.

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Planio

JANUARY 31, 2022

That’s why a product roadmap is the backbone of every great development team. Review and align your roadmap with other internal teams. Your engineering team’s internal roadmap will focus on different elements than one designed for executives. Usage data. Prioritize features and themes into initiatives.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

Defining Development Approach as a Performance Domain The Development Approach and Life Cycle Performance Domain is a meld of systematic methodologies designed to focus on the activities and functions essential in shaping the cadence and phases of a project's life cycle. This choice will define the course of your project.

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Resource Guru

MARCH 20, 2023

Last week, Brett Harned shared his story about the importance of assessing project scope and involving the right people. The dev team appreciated the workshop because they felt seen and valued. But now, the whole team had the opportunity to grow—together. I wanted to identify who had the skillset for these roles.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Although this may vary significantly for every Scrum Team, members must have a shared understanding of what it means for work to be completed and to ensure transparency. This is the definition of ‘Done’ for the Scrum Team and it is used to assess when work is complete on the product Increment. Test- Driven Development.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 21, 2020

Well, it means that we keep the entirety of Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide and add some Kanban-goodness tell help smooth things. Whilst the whole Scrum Team is accountable for the definition of Workflow, the Development Team defines the parts of the workflow that relate to the activities of the Development Team.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 16, 2024

Whether managing a software development project in an Agile framework or overseeing a service delivery project in a Waterfall context , T-shirt sizing offers a versatile and efficient approach to estimating work, setting the stage for successful project execution and delivery. All team members must have a shared understanding of this scale.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Over my 15 years of experience with Scrum, I’ve observed velocity-driven and capacity-driven sprint planning as our ways of working when we figure out the amount of work the development team can take during a sprint. Having defined throughput, let’s imagine a Scrum team running on 2-week sprints.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. It became a part of agile when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” in 2001. Processes can be defined and improved.

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Wrike

AUGUST 25, 2023

Understanding Product Management At its core, product management involves the planning, development, and execution of strategies to bring a product to market and oversee its success. They need to be able to analyze data, identify trends, and make informed decisions based on insights. Product development.

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2023

6 rules to follow How to bring strategy and tactics together: 5 examples for different teams 1. Product development teams 2. Digital marketing teams 3. Sales teams 4. Customer service teams 5. A competitor bank experiences a breach in its security systems, exposing its customer data.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

After defining the context, let us consider some Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns in detail. Any of the examples will impede the team’s productivity and might endanger the Sprint goal. Stakeholders are supposed to listen in but not distract the Development Team members during their inspection.). The Sprint Review.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Question 3 : “What defines business agility?”. This means having the necessary information and data available, as well as the ability to analyze it and make informed decisions. It consists of a set of roles, meetings, and artifacts that help teams to work together and deliver value to their customers.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 16, 2024

TL;DR — Key Takeaways A skills matrix is a hiring and talent management tool for assessing employees’ skill levels and interests in those skills. A skills matrix can help you identify skills gaps , manage resources more effectively, track employee development , and perform better workforce and succession planning to make better hires.

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Wrike

JULY 24, 2023

A solution that seamlessly integrates with your existing project management tools, testing tools, and development environments can significantly streamline your workflow. By eliminating the need for manual data entry and providing real-time updates across systems, integration capabilities save time and reduce the risk of data inconsistencies.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2023

Follow-up question : Why is it beneficial that the team adheres to the values and practices of Scrum? This can help improve the overall quality of the team's work and ensure that the team is meeting its goals. Question : Should a Scrum Master remove problems on behalf of the Scrum Team? tools, data, etc.)

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The statement helps to define the future state of the product and focuses on conditions that will exist when the product is ready for the market. Once you have a draft, review it. A product vision board is a hands-on tool to better collect the data necessary to make a strong product vision. Be specific; don’t generalize.

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