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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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In the world of project management, a methodology stands out like a sore thumb, and that’s the notorious ad hoc project management. Suppose you’ve ever had the misfortune of encountering a project managed in this haphazard manner. However, we can advise on the worst approach – NOT managing projects.

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Leading Answers

MAY 30, 2021

In addition to an agnostic understanding of Lean, Kanban, Scrum and other agile approaches, we also agreed people should know about the basics of servant leadership, conflict management, team decision making, and coaching. So our scope included more than just Lean and agile; it had a little leadership and emotional intelligence.

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Scrum.org

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR; The only way to mitigate risk when employing Agile practices is by continuously delivering a usable working product. Having a “manage-the-bug” mentality is like welcoming water into the ship. From the Chaos Report, Standish Group. Keep It Lean and Mean It’s a battlefield out there. Yes, you read it right!

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

Project managers are the point person in charge of a specific project or projects within an organization. We regularly feature project management resources to help train PMs to land jobs in the industry or develop better skills in their current role. What Does a Project Manager Do? How Much Does a Project Manager Make?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As we work in iterations, we probably do that several times per month, mitigating risk by closing feedback loops. Also, the “Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal.” ( Source.). TL; DR: Value Creation in Scrum.

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Planio

MARCH 9, 2021

Add too many new team members too quickly and you’ll burn through resources, get stuck in a never-ending cycle of onboarding, burn out your project managers , and risk injecting a ton of complication into your process. A lean product team strikes the perfect balance. Finding and hiring the right project and product managers.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2022

Speed of delivery can be quickly "sold" to management. Instead, the biggest issue in becoming Adaptable is narrowly specialized teams that stem from the lack of team and management investment in team learning. Imagine a product group with six cross-functional teams, see figure 2. Optimize for Adaptability.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 22, 2022

We need good EQ to be able to recognize and manage our own emotions. Leadership has been around far longer than project management (which primarily grew from the Industrial Revolution.) It can be learned and exercised on a small scale before being brought to bear on larger groups. Willingness to take personal risks.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 3, 2022

One of the unfortunate perceptions which many project managers face when trying to do their jobs is that some stakeholders perceive that they are just bureaucratic paper-pushers. But when project management costs cannot be recouped, the project manager is left to fend for themselves.

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

Why is Product Ownership split to Product Owner and Product Manager in SAFe? SAFe has multiple Product Ownership/Management layers As organizations tackle bigger products, they have some alternatives for how to tackle product ownership/management. How does it differ from the Scrum Guide?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 11, 2021

Agile Leadership Toolkit: Learning to Thrive with Self-Managing Teams. Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love. The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses. Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster. Product Ownership Reading List.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 3, 2019

A RACI chart is a project management tool that helps you do exactly that. Informed : This group get one-way communication to keep them up-to-date with progress and other messages after a decision or action. Knowing what people do and the influence they have is an important of part of how to manage a project.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 13, 2023

They should be well versed on product management, design, other agile and lean agile approaches. I think the nuance you might see here is the focus on understanding product management and design more. If an “ agilist” is unfamiliar with it, I think it says a lot. As a scrum master, you should not only have scrum in your toolbox.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Saddest is that given decades of UCD and HCD as our key processes, SAFe picked “Lean UX” to add to their model. Lean UX is neither Lean nor UX; don’t be fooled by the name. But you can see why SAFe liked Lean UX. Lean UX is a model where UX has no real power to do much or make decisions. Better risk identification.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 17, 2023

In the journal Amy defined psychological safety as “a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking.”. Employee groups were trained, but not nurtured or supported in pursuing psychological safety. Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.” scrumguides.org 2022.

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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. One very important group of these people are your project stakeholders. A 3-part stakeholder management process for keeping everyone happy. And what do they do?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2022

This article is based on the talk/mini-workshop I held with an enthusiastic group of participants at Agile with Ukraine. I would translate fittest in the case as organizations that are able to achieve a maximum outcome with minimal output: the corporate equivalent of a very fit, lean athlete. Transparency, inspection, and adaption.

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

PMI has become and continues to be the leading professional association in project management. The goal of the Metrolina chapter is to advance the mission and objectives of the Project Management Institute. Risk and PMI’s Risk Management Professional (RMP) Certification. John Stenbeck. Steven McGee.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Saddest is that given decades of UCD and HCD as our key processes, SAFe picked “Lean UX” to add to their model. Lean UX is neither Lean nor UX; don’t be fooled by the name. But you can see why SAFe liked Lean UX. Lean UX is a model where UX has no real power to do much or make decisions. Better risk identification.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. The questions themselves are grouped into six categories. This is achieved by testing hypotheses as fast and as inexpensive as possible, thus mitigating risk and maximizing the development team’s work. To what extent is the Product Owner a “product manager”?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This article is based on the talk/mini-workshop I held with an enthusiastic group of participants at Agile with Ukraine. I would translate fittest in the case as organizations that are able to achieve a maximum outcome with minimal output: the corporate equivalent of a very fit, lean athlete. Transparency, inspection, and adaption.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

By APMG International September 6, 2023 Agile project management is a flexible approach to managing projects which involves taking incremental steps referred to as sprints or iterations. The History of Agile Project Management Agile project management emerged in the software development industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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The IIL Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Self-organizing teams collaborate and communicate as a group to drive work forward and decide what to focus on next. At various points during a project, dependent on the scenario and necessity, project managers flex their skill sets to perform what is necessary to complete the task at hand. And if so, how?”

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Proofhub

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ecommerce project management entails the systematic strategy of planning, organizing, coordinating, and regulating the numerous activities involved in building and running a store online. The article explains the key stages of eCommerce project management and provides tips on implementing it in the best possible way.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 21, 2022

The System Team is a specialized Agile Team responsible for managing and supporting the development environment. Also, they communicate with the stakeholders, help in managing risks, drive persistent improvement and escalate impediments. It is part of the Agile Product Delivery competency of the Lean Enterprise.

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Planview

JULY 26, 2022

Meanwhile, managers are bracing themselves for the inevitability of budget cuts: If we had to keep going with 10% less budget, or 20% less, what would that look like? But failing to plan for that reality could come at the risk of jeopardizing the activities, people, and processes that are holding your business together.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

These changes can make you, as project managers, feel like you are on a tiny boat lost at sea, trying to navigate your project through the waves and changing winds. Lean into it. His experience and knowledge come from over 20 years of managing critical project initiatives and delivery teams.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2021

Refinement is simply the ongoing activity of having these conversations and thus an essential product management activity. This gives the Product Backlog a level of transparency that reduces the risk. That is why refinement is an essential Product Management activity that successful Scrum Teams need to master. .

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2021

Professor Tirado is a native New Yorker, and when he started out in this field he was one of 5 people in the world who married together managing initiatives through projects and industrial psychology. Project management is affecting how humans perform or adopt technology. So the change management and training is not intensive.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 2, 2023

Stakeholder Engagement is about identifying the right people for the right time, understanding their involvement with the product and managing them accordingly. For Product Owners/Managers, effective Stakeholder Engagement is not a ‘nice to have’ skill but a ‘must have’ skill. Who wants to know how things are managed?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 8, 2021

Risks, politics, personal agendas often subvert the original goal either by design or unwittingly, turning high impact outcomes into mediocre outputs. Figure 1 Product Management Onion with Goals and their Categories. Each category spans a rather large area on the product management onion. Risks of absent or bad Goals.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Most project managers and teams choose to defer it until the project scheduling phase of project planning. Analyze the limitations and risks. Risks and constraints on time, money, and resources must be considered to identify elements that affect success. SAFe® Lean Portfolio. Management (LPM) Training.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 27, 2020

This attitude tends to prevail in less “agile” organizations that are still in the early phases of a change, often fostered by a traditional management style rooted in the industrial paradigm, thus focused on output and the utility of the individual. . Use W3 to debrief in the whole group. .

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The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 1, 2022

Time Based Competition (TBC) is classic Boston Consulting Group (BCG) thinking that has evolved into a new relevance today. This post looks at Time as a strategic element and how it has evolved into a critical consideration in strategy and project management. A Strategic Project Manager’s Approach to Time.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

Malinawan, PMP Choosing the appropriate tools and techniques to your advantage is essential for professionals working in the dynamic field of project management who must contend with issues like project budget constraints, tight deadlines, and constantly changing requirements.

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