The IIL Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Successful IT leaders need to develop and lean into a set of power skills. Lacking essential power skills such as emotional intelligence, empathy, communication, influence and directiveness can harm both reputation of the IT leadership team and the stability of IT departments. It’s not the 90’s anymore. Effective Communication.

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Leadership Retail 2023 Innovation 78

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Joanne encourages the community to explore new areas, such as regenerative economics and leadership, to expand their knowledge and influence in the agile space. The Future of Work In Scotland is sponsored by naked Agility with Martin Hinshelwood and covers topics such as leadership, coaching, and neurodiversity.

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Agile Sustainability Consulting Lean 159

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Justify investing in technical excellence to the leadership by demonstrating the long-term cost savings and increased speed of future feature development due to a more robust and flexible codebase. Apply Lean Thinking : Map the team’s value stream to identify non-value-adding activities.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability 193

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Joanne encourages the community to explore new areas, such as regenerative economics and leadership, to expand their knowledge and influence in the agile space. The Future of Work In Scotland is sponsored by naked Agility with Martin Hinshelwood and covers topics such as leadership, coaching, and neurodiversity.

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Agile Sustainability Consulting Lean 149

Agile Coach

APRIL 19, 2018

A friend of mine asked me on twitter what my 3 main things I’ve learned teaching my Lean Change Agent workshops and what the main takeaways from attendees were. It’s also important to understand what influenced thinking about org change differently. First, How Lean Change Agent Came to Be. Next, Some Stats.

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Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

SAFe picks up many already familiar elements and concepts from existing methods such as Scrum or Lean Project Management, which makes the transition easier for many companies. Lean Agile Leadership: Managers are the very core of lean agile development and business agility.

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Technical Review Lean 2011 Cadence 100

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This team of e Agile Transformation Coaches will consist of people focused on executive-level understanding and leadership, people that teach team-level technical practices, and everything in between. This role is, in effect, a high-influence peer to the executives who act as a trusted advisor. Lean/Agile Leader.

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Technical Review Software Review Agile Lean 118

NimbleWork

MARCH 7, 2024

As the Agile project management framework reaches adoption maturity at lean, progressive and disruptive startup firms, many teams at established organizations are struggling to fully embrace the Agile project management framework at scale.

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Agile Software Review Technical Review Leadership 114

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Historically, transformation strategies often leaned heavily on 'command and control' tactics. It is a continuous, dynamic process that profoundly influences decision-making and strategy formulation. This definition underscores its importance as a plan of action and as a complete overhaul of how an organization functions and thinks.

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Technical Review Sustainability Agile Initiating 179

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It’s been around in Japan since after World War II, though influenced by quality management ideas from the United States. ” In this context, it’s about leadership and knowing what is happening at every level of the organization. Therefore, leadership must set goals for their teams that are not contradictory.

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Manufacturing Lean Healthcare Software Review 303

Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

SAFe takes the perspective of learning from experience in the trenches and what patterns organizations are using and applying lean/agile principles as needed to help organizations evolve. Doing this requires figuring out the product architecture and moving towards an empowering leadership style. Why did SAFe make this choice?

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SCRUM Lean Influencer Agile 167

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Let’s start with what the Scrum Guide says about empiricism: “Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking. Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.”. The answer to that question is feeding a whole industry; think servant leadership, radical candor, or psychological safety, to name a few. Empiricism.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

These frameworks also encourage you to use Lean principles to optimize your flow. These include Disciplined Agile Development (DAD), LeSS, Scrum@Scale, Spotify, Lean Startup, hybrid combinations, and more. Becoming a truly lean and agile enterprise is the best bet for any organization aspiring to succeed. . What is SAFe?

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Agile Lean 2011 SCRUM 98

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

Possessing a toolkit that makes complex project management easier to handle and raises the success rate of the project and its leadership is undoubtedly advantageous. The project objectives, the nature of the tasks involved, and the preferences of the project team influence the method choice.

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Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team 2024 Lean 52

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The team should avoid refining too far in advance if it’s working in a higher-risk environment involving frequent changes in technology, business needs, or other factors influencing the Product Backlog’s order and content. If the Product Backlog is refined too far out, it can become an example of lean waste. . Conduct an analysis.

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Lean SCRUM Technical Review Closing 186

Inloox

JULY 28, 2022

The sender of a message should always be aware that the interpretation of the message also depends on nonverbal influences. Paul Watzlawick, an Austrian communication scientist, summarizes these influences under his 5 axioms of communication. In this way, symmetry in the hierarchy structure can become complementarity.

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Influencer Construction Lean Closing 201

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 4, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you looking to elevate your leadership style to foster a more dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team? Dive deeper into understanding and applying Scrum's lightweight, agile framework in your leadership practice.

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SCRUM Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 40

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

If Thomas Edison was right when he said, “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration,” then consider these leadership quotes the one percent. So, we’ve collected 25 of the most inspiring leadership quotes to give you that extra boost. Leadership Quotes. It’s not people-pleasing.

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Leadership Software Review Lean Influencer 70

The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. Stakeholder An individual, group, or organization with an interest or influence in a project or its outcomes.

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Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Consultancies saw the potential for total organization transformation by combining process consulting services like scrum implementation, dev ops, kanban, lean, with technology offerings like work management systems, cloud data, quality engineering, AI, chatbots and more. I knew what I was missing. I was hooked.

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Certification 2023 Agile Technical Review 188

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. Project team members: The group working on the project and following the project manager’s leadership. Who wants to influence this project (positively or negatively)?

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Influencer Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 286

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

Leadership – ethical, authentic leadership is what helps get work done and set you apart from your peers. Successful project managers are those that embrace the mantle of leadership. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) Second, the use of lean and agile tools and methodologies beyond IT, software and manufacturing. Helena Lui.

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2018 Artificial Inteligence Consulting Underperforming Technical Team 300

The IIL Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Misalignment can occur within the leadership team, and between leaders and their staff. External events will impact the project’s execution, including leadership and key-resource changes, market competition, and other operational changes. This is an early warning indicator that the project will be challenged. Leaders embrace change.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2023 Software Review Leadership 78

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Top-down management is replaced by leadership, allowance for people’s creativity and delegation of decisions. They represent consistent and aligned leadership. In modern, Agile or Lean organizations, the customers, employees and value delivered, is the most important concern. [3]. They foster a positive, agile culture.

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Inloox

AUGUST 13, 2018

Invest in actively engaged executive sponsors as they will use their influence within an organization to actively overcome challenges by communicating the project’s alignment to strategy, removing roadblocks, and driving organizational change. They will also help align stakeholders and communicate the vision effectively.

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Artificial Inteligence 2018 2027 Healthcare 111

The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This post explores the factors that influence the choice of a strategy framework, untangles confusion presented by the plethora of strategic frameworks, and shows areas of impact for project managers. This environment needs leadership – a company that can pave the way, where the mantra is “Be the orchestrator.”

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Influencer Risk Management Innovation Monitoring 98

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JANUARY 30, 2020

The Scrum Master plays a critical leadership role in both transforming the team and the organization. StratEx has developed a unique Lean & Agile certification program that is methodology agnostic and teaches best practices from Lean, Agile, and the emerging field of DevOps. Once inside, there are many paths to travel.

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Certification SCRUM Lean PMO 109

The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

They have barriers to entry – a moat – that helps maintain market leadership over time. Here are some examples of the Organization component in action: Management expertise and leadership – A firm’s top management team makes key decisions, sets strategy, and ensures effective execution.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sustainability Innovation 98

Scrum.org

MARCH 10, 2023

To do this, team members engage in participative leadership, use minimal process, collaborate well, respect each other and their differences, trust one another, work with urgency and focus, manage healthy conflict, share a high sense of morale, and succeed or fail as a team.”

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SCRUM Technical Review Sustainability Software Review 160

Velociteach

AUGUST 3, 2023

Misalignment can occur within the leadership team, and between leaders and their staff. External events will impact the project’s execution, including leadership and key-resource changes, market competition, and other operational changes. Create Flow Lean practices focus on the flow of work. The leaders embrace the change.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Development Team Review 2023 80

The Strategic Project Manager

APRIL 20, 2023

Examples of the Hock Principle in Practice The Hock Principle has been used in practice in a variety of ways, particularly in the realm of organizational design and leadership. Blue Ocean Leadership maxims borrow in these ways from the Hock Principle.

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Lean Innovation Retail Agile 52

The Strategic Project Manager

JULY 25, 2023

Enhance operational efficiency by implementing lean methodologies and reducing waste. Enhance leadership capabilities by providing training and mentorship programs for managers. Provide leadership training to all managers within the next six months. Streamline supply chain processes to reduce lead time by 15%.

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Logistics Leadership Lean Monitoring 52

ProjectManager.com

JULY 16, 2018

Know when to “lean in” or “lean back.” Sometimes you have to lean in and lean back at the same time, depending on the situation. Don’t ignore them or listen to them exclusively, but put them in the pot with all your other influences for action. When should you be aggressive? How do you rely on your gut?

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Lean Influencer 203

Henny Portman

APRIL 9, 2020

Following Eric Ries’ lean start-up approach, the product owner is no longer the interpreter of business value. The IT organization must become an interpreter of business value as well as a provider of technical skills, and its interpretation must influence not only the behavior of project teams but also the enterprise’s business strategies.

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Technical Review Influencer Lean Agile 104

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

OKR Theater has the potential to become a member of a big family – Scrum Theater, Agile Theater, SAFe Theater, Lean Theater, Six Sigma Theater; you get the picture. The Sprint Review is an opportunity for inspecting both and providing feedback that will then be considered and perhaps reflect in the Product Backlog, influencing future work.

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SCRUM Agile Sustainability Lean 184

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

It became a global phenomenon through the influence of business philosophies like Total Quality Management (TQM) and methodologies such as Lean Methodology and Six Sigma, which emphasized systematic, strategic changes to eliminate waste, streamline processes, and eliminate waste and inefficiency. 2020, December).

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Technical Review 2024 Innovation Sustainability 52

International Institute for Learning

AUGUST 17, 2022

Ko’s experience spans over 15 years, and he has provided various online and offline trainings in Project Management, Business Analysis, Leadership, and Agile, after working with several American IT companies including DEC, HP, and Intel. By Ko Ito. Don’t Be Agile. Consultant and Trainer, International Institute for Learning.

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Agile Technical Review Lean Manufacturing 69