The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Emphasis on Sustainability and ESG Practices: The year 2024 underscores an amplified emphasis on sustainability and the integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices into project management. This shift reflects a conscientious endeavour towards responsible project management and environmentally conscious practices.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This is done through analysis, planning and managing costs that are related to IT operations, projects and services. To accomplish this requires financial governance, creating and controlling an IT budget, tracking expenses and doing cost-benefit analysis of IT investments. should operate as efficiently as possible.

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Inloox

APRIL 16, 2024

How to perform a SWOT analysis Once the SWOT analysis is completed: 5 key approaches for strategy development Concrete example: SWOT analysis in a software development project Conclusion 1. SWOT analysis in the project management context In project management , it is important to both plan effectively and implement well.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Public Sector Project Manager Selection In most government agencies, PMs were seen more so as project monitors rather than project managers. The assignment as a government project monitor was seen as an add-on to one’s normal job. Executive sponsorship was merely eyewash for government agencies.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2023

IT teams plan hardware and software installations, upgrades and rollouts, and the tools they use are specific to working with infrastructure, information systems and computers. But every IT project has one thing in common: they start with an IT plan. IT projects are unique. It’s a versatile tool.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. We did have a team of developers who built some in-house apps, and web front ends to databases, but we were not, at heart, a company that built software.

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Inloox

MARCH 27, 2024

Definition of the PDCA cycle The initial letters PDCA stand for the four steps in a continuous improvement process (CIP, Kaizen): Plan-Do-Check-Act (Plan-Do-Check-Act). Do: In this phase, the team implements the plan on a small scale, executes the tasks and collects data on the results.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For example, the nature of the project or the planning also play a major role here. Instead of taking internal measures to adjust planning or resource allocation, the aim is to make oneself less dependent on external factors or to create alternatives so as to minimize the impact. If such an event occurs, the budget framework is blown.

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Risk Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 172

MPUG

JANUARY 16, 2023

Project Planning. The PMBOK® Guide doesn’t mandate a particular development approach or method, especially now that PMI actively embraces different delivery approaches. You can’t easily build a bridge in iterations, but software development – to use a classic example – would fit agile ways of working with incremental releases.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This, of course, is a violation of the principles of Managerial Finance and Microeconomics of software development in the presence of uncertainty and scarce resources. Software Project Cost Estimation . There are numerous horror stories about software development cost and schedule overruns.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Instead, you would probably get more use out of investing your reading time in User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Mike Cohn). I would suggest it’s User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn. User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning. It comprises of everything necessary to ship the Product Increment to our customers, including but not limited to engineering standards, governance, and legal requirements. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 1, 2022

It’s a given that there will be changes to the project plan during the project execution phase. If changes are requested, the change control board shows how those changes are managed with the least amount of disruption to the project’s plan. The changes differ from the baseline requirements set at the approval of the project plan.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2021

Many of these roles are predicted to be in software development and sub-sectors like app development, IT security and healthcare tech. Government jobs typically pay better than working in education. You’ll create project plans and carry them out. That’s about 2.3 million new jobs a year.

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Technical Review PMO Healthcare Retail 393

Leading Agile

JUNE 17, 2022

But while daily standups, sprint planning, and burndown charts give the appearance of Agility, these activities have become conflated with the benefits of Agility. Producing Working, Tested Software. Developing a working, tested increment of a product at the end of each designated period is the ultimate goal of adopting Agile.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 17, 2022

A project director is a person responsible for leading a team of project managers, which can also include contractors, sub-contractors, software developers, web developers, graphic designers, testers, network engineers and other staff that are essential to the project. What Is a Project Director? Manage resources.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

Many of these roles are predicted to be in software development and sub-sectors like app development, IT security, and healthcare tech. Government jobs typically pay better than working in education. You’ll create project plans and carry them out. That’s about 2.3 million new jobs a year.

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Technical Review Prince2 Healthcare Certification 336

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. It includes developing and standardizing processes and enforcing standardized templates, methodologies, and tools across all projects, ensuring a consistent approach to project planning and execution.

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Scrum.org

MAY 3, 2021

Once firmly in the domain of software development, practitioners find that Scrum is equally applicable to many other kinds of complex work. An option for those who do select a private class is additional time to build an implementation plan for their organization.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

RUP was developed by Rational Corporation which was later acquired by IBM. It is an iterative software development approach which divides the project lifecycle into four phases: Inception, Elaboration, Construction, and Transition. I had to learn about RUP because our company had adopted it to implement and manage projects.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

Planning 3. with examples of IT projects) IT project management is the process of planning, organizing, running, and managing information technology projects. IT projects still require planning, control, teamwork, and leadership — and for that, organizations use IT project management frameworks to maximize their success.

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Planview

JANUARY 19, 2023

By combining these approaches, organizations can improve the performance of every stage of the software development lifecycle, from planning to delivery to outcomes. It’s critical to be asking the right questions: How does strategy become a plan? Are the right objectives being focused on?

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Planio

APRIL 22, 2024

Whether it’s a business case, project plan, or market analysis, an executive summary is a great way to get the project’s most important information across quickly and clearly. In project management specifically, executive summaries are most commonly used in business cases, project status reports , project plans, and project closure documents.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

Yes, they do enjoy profits, but those come when markets are consistent, where managers can plan accurately for a future that is clearly laid out before them. Therefore, the given in any strategic business plan is that things are going to change. The plan must be plastic to survive such disruptions. Origins of Business Agility.

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Scrum.org

MAY 3, 2021

Once firmly in the domain of software development, practitioners find that Scrum is equally applicable to many other kinds of complex work. An option for those who do select a private class is additional time to build an implementation plan for their organization.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team 2015 Governance 163

Agilemania

APRIL 12, 2022

The core of SAFe is based on four bodies of knowledge which are agile software development, lean product development, systems thinking, and DevOps. Plan View . Plan View is a project and portfolio management tool that offers business solutions for different products. Rally Software. Spira Plan.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Third, how are we reproducing working tests in software? Additionally, we need to consider how we organize teams in the presence of dependencies, how we orchestrate and govern those dependencies, and what we measure and control around the team. How are we orchestrating and governing those dependencies? How are we forming teams?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 23, 2022

For example, prior to the pandemic, structuring teams around specialist skills, building an amazing planning and resource allocation process (PMO), and putting in place as much automation as possible would for many be the holy grail of productivity. Expensive resources would be optimized. There is nothing as odd as folk”. :-) . .

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

Project Management is a systematic and organized approach to planning, coordinating, and overseeing the work of a team to achieve a specific goal. It involves defining the project scope and objectives, creating a detailed plan, and identifying the resources and schedule required to complete the project.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

This approach leverages technology and online tools to manage aspects of a project - from initiation through planning, execution, monitoring, and closure. Use these insights to anticipate project bottlenecks and adjust plans proactively. Digital Project Management orchestrates projects primarily conducted in a digital environment.

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Technical Review Software Review 2024 PMO 52

Binfire

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

The other day I was reading an article in which the author argues , in order for the government agencies to become more efficient, they need to transition to the Agile method! For the government agencies to get efficient, they need to embrace Agile methodology. . Could be used by non-software projects too). Do you get this?

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Software Review Agile Software Technical Review 87

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 21, 2024

It operates on the principle that project scopes and objectives may shift, prioritizing agility over strict adherence to predefined plans. Scrum relies heavily on regular team meetings, such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, to adapt processes and outputs based on ongoing feedback and results.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Prince2 Lean Software Review 52

Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

The Japanese also value and take pride in careful planning and flawless execution. A couple weeks later, the Scrum team was staffed with competent people from Sales, Sales Planning and IT, and we even had a team room with brand new furniture. One day, the decision was made to go for it.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Agile Software Engineering 127

Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

And it’ll be up to you to demonstrate a credible plan for how Agile will help them solve that. And how they are used in a changing software development and deployment structure. And how they are used in a changing software development and deployment structure. So, it’s up to you to create safety and build trust.

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2023 Underperforming Technical Team Agile 2024 131

Scrum.org

MAY 9, 2020

In software development context, it doesn’t work differently. . Although it can be argued that figuring out the systemic constraints is not that straightforward, it actually works in a similar way in software development context. More Adaptive Planning over Big Budget Up-Front. .

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Next we get an explanation of the three major frameworks (architecture, plan and team structure) and the meetings to create them. In the third section we get an overview of some routine meetings like the daily scrum, demos, governance meetings and teleconferences. Project Planning meeting. It’s a participative learning event.

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Software Review Process Lean Leadership 93

Henny Portman

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Planning & control is out; experiment is in. Aims to speed up software development. Model is suitable for software development, non-routine activities and requires a streamlined IT architecture. Are organizations in which volunteers develop a resource for the whole world to use. The Spotify model.

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