The IIL Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

The development team was devastated. In my consulting practice, I see development teams struggling with their users. A primary reason is poor stakeholder engagement. Poor alignment with project objectives and expectations. Develop mitigation strategies. This experience is not unique.

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Agilemania

MARCH 14, 2023

The Definition of Done is the most crucial aspect for the team to be able to build shippable increments of any product. A team’s definition of done helps them continuously add value to the product. The Definition of Done (DoD) is created by the development team or project team.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. Prioritizing based on business value is an example of the lean concept of 'Taking an Economic View of Decision Making.' I do not think the teams have been weak at threat avoidance.

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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? One of the secrets to unlocking your team's full potential lies in embracing the core values of the Scrum Framework. What is the Scrum Framework?

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Business agility is often achieved through the use of agile practices and methodologies, such as agile project management and agile software development. It gets a bit repetitive; however, the Generative AI adds agile practices and refers directly to agile software development. Let's drill down a bit.

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Wrike

MAY 21, 2023

It includes analyzing the competitive landscape, identifying opportunities, setting goals and objectives, and developing a plan of action. Analyzing the competitive landscape involves understanding the strengths and weaknesses of competitors, as well as identifying emerging trends and opportunities.

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Scrum.org

JULY 29, 2019

In my role as an Agile coach and Scrum trainer, I get the chance to talk to a lot of Scrum Masters and teams. When I ask them about what their team is measuring, the most common answers I hear are velocity, story points, and burn-down charts. Team health? I often failed to help developers understand its true purpose.

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Binfire

MARCH 6, 2018

Too bad these companies do not advertise how they organize their workforce and share with everyone the amazing benefits they get from turning their companies into Agile enterprises. The bad news; Bringing Agile to traditional organizations is not easy. Some executives try to take a middle ground and make the development team Agile.

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Wrike

JULY 29, 2023

While working at Toyota, Japanese engineer and businessman Taiichi Ohno played a crucial role in the development of Kaizen. Analyze Current State: Assess current processes and performance to gain a thorough understanding of strengths, weaknesses, and inefficiencies.

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Scrum.org

JULY 1, 2019

Scrum makes clear the relative efficacy of your product management and work techniques so that you can continuously improve the product, the team, and the working environment.”. By consequence, teams will ultimately abandon Scrum in such environments. . Ask yourself how successful your Scrum in reaching those two objectives.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2020

Does your team struggle to get items to Done? Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work? Dependencies are an epidemic in software development.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There is no doubt now that Agile is not just a buzzword, but a really working methodology that takes software development to the next level. . How does it differ from the traditional approach to product development? SDLC (software development life cycle) is a sequential approach to software development.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A happy team is a productive team. The 12 best conflict resolution techniques for keeping your team on track. As a project manager, you’ll deal with conflicts between members of your team, your team and stakeholders or clients, and even with yourself and the people you work with. Jump to a section.

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Planio

JUNE 19, 2023

Projects fail for many reasons — but one of the most common is poor planning. In fact, studies have shown that around 27% of projects fail because of inaccurate task estimates, with another 11% failing due to undefined task dependencies. That’s where PERT comes in. That’s where PERT comes in. Founded by the U.S. Why would you use it?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. As somebody hiring for a Scrum Team, you need to determine for yourself what works for your organization — which is a process, not a destination. Generally, insisting that the team achieve specific KPI, e.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 22, 2022

This is part one in a series on leading agile teams from the Beyond Agile book. We will examine what leadership entails and how it applies to agile teams. We can create backlogs and release plans all we like, but until there is a motivated team with a shared vision of the end goal, it is like trying to push a rope—ineffective.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The History of Agile Project Management Agile project management emerged in the software development industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1991 the book Rapid Application Development was published and an approach of the same name, RAD, was born. Agile projects are iterative and have regular feedback loops.

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Planio

APRIL 6, 2021

A product requirements document (PRD) is one of the most important documents for teams using traditional project management. However, an increasing number of Agile teams are starting to see the value of adding more planning to their process. Agile is all about staying lean and adapting to user feedback, right? Jump to a section.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Not maintaining requirements in an Agile team can lead to several challenges, including scope creep, missed deadlines, low-quality deliverables, and dissatisfied stakeholders. This can cause frustration for both the team and the stakeholders, as the project may require additional work to fix these issues.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Demos  – Having the team demonstrate increments of functionality at the end of every iteration shows what the project has achieved to date. Instead, the team regularly surfaces from work to show where they are with progress and discuss what should come next. Information radiators can show any data the team wants to display.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Assessing and mitigating project risks 7. Updating project management software to keep their team on track 9. In everyday terms, a project manager’s job is to oversee, coordinate, and lead their team from project kickoff to handoff. Getting approval for new projects 4. Creating actionable project plans 5.

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nTask

AUGUST 22, 2019

The term Agile refers to a way of managing projects that incorporates constant improvement, scope flexibility, team involvement, and delivering crucial quality products. This method often results in low-quality products due to delays in milestones, financial issues and lack of prioritized characteristics for the products.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When it comes to managing teams and projects effectively, managers can choose from many project management frameworks and methodologies. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an Agile project management framework focused on flexibility, continuous iteration and improvement, and cross-functional collaboration between teams and stakeholders.

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Wrike

JULY 6, 2022

Ultimately, it needs to prioritize and enable project work that IT teams can execute to align with your business initiatives. We will dive a bit deeper into IT projects enabled by the PMO and address the following topics: The state of IT and flexible project management for IT teams in 2022. The challenge: The state of IT in 2022 .

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Individual contributor team, lead section, lead project manager, program manager, director of engineering. What does the team care about? What are their concerns?

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Binfire

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Harvard business review has written an interesting article titled why even good projects fail anyway. is it due to lack of planning? The overconfidence of the developers and project members? The job of the project manager or Scrum leader is not just to plan but lead the team effectively to achieving the goals of the project.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2020

I am actively forming the opinion that this is the wrong term to be used both in how various assessments assess understanding and by practitioners in the agile community. This poor choice then leads to a fragility within the solution. Lean Principles Work Types. The Scrum Guide does not contain the term technical debt.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing our theme of helping Agile teams understand the Kanban Method, so they can effectively adopt it for their improvement efforts, I am again honored to publish a guest article by another great friend of ours – Dave White. The Kanban Method pulls a great deal of its values from a Lean value system. People-centric.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Indeed, the range from a Monte Carlo forecast can be more accurate and useful to a team in Sprint Planning than an absolute value, such as an average velocity or burn rate projection. In our earlier example, we knew the team velocities for seven Sprints, which were 114, 143, 116, 109, 127, 153, and 120 points. So, what can a 54.3%

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. In both SAFe/Scrum it is a self-managing team of self-managed teams with a couple of key roles at the team of teams level. . Lean/Agile Leadership. Nexus Integration Team (NIT) - System Team. Nexus - ART.

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Teamweek

JULY 26, 2021

That means the vast majority of new starters have a poor experience when beginning life at a new company. . But, what does a bad remote employee onboarding experience lead to? A poor onboarding experience lengthens the time it takes for new starters to become effective. Poor onboarding prohibits that from happening.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 10, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Melanie: Okay, Melanie here with Team MPUG. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations. Tim Runcie: I got a good group here today.

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nTask

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Creating an Agile project management office from scratch and managing in such a way that it prospers in the organizational paradigm is a real challenge, especially in the current market where we see successful businesses failing due to poor management. Yes, you heard that right. Hummingbirds! Don’t trust us yet?

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 28, 2019

I’m not suggesting this degree of simplification is automatically or always a Bad Thing. It can become a Bad Thing when we lose sight of the larger context of our work. Software developers/maintainers. It’s a Bad Thing to take that line of thinking so far that we forget about other stakeholders.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Mike Cohn’s August 2016 article, The Dangers of a Definition of Ready describes certain problems that can occur when a team uses the concept of a Definition of Ready. Below I review the LeadingAgile Compass model to try and provide context around Definition of Ready. A team is either “agile” or “not agile.”

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The best way to achieve early ROI with Agile is to create a delivery engine where the teams at the execution level are aligned with the business strategy. And we can start, you know, obviously getting revenue to fund further development. And I want that team to be able to establish a stable velocity. And life is good.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

To accelerate ROI, we must reliably put the right combination of working tested product in front of customers so that it can drive revenue, self-fund further product development, and create opportunities to get critical feedback. And we can start, you know, obviously getting revenue to fund further development. And life is good.

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