The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Eugene Bounds and Steve Ackert Recently, the buzzword artificial intelligence (AI) has been on everyone’s minds, not just in the tech world but across many industries, including project management. For over a quarter of a century, the Standish Group has tracked, reported, and improved software-intensive project success rates. [1]

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Planio

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Every great company–from the billion-dollar tech behemoths to innovative and scrappy startups–has one thing in common: talented people motivated by a shared vision. Step 10: Do your due diligence before you make the offer. That means including more than just some technical requirements in a job description and calling it a day.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 17, 2024

From individual coding tasks to large-scale releases, the DoD sets the bar for quality and completeness, ensuring everyone - from developers to stakeholders - is on the same page. Due to their different approaches to project management, this definition varies significantly between Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Increasingly, all enterprises are becoming software-led, which is changing the traditional project management lifecycle into the continuous iterative loop that modern software teams have employed for decades. GitHub’s Copilot helps software engineers generate deployable code.

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Leading Agile

MAY 25, 2023

Solid technical practices and your full-stack developer’s software craftsmanship are also limited by the conditions inside your organization. And so what we were talking about was the idea, on theme for the last couple of these recordings of, what are the necessary preconditions to be able to do software craftsmanship well?

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, maintaining a stable and reliable system infrastructure is paramount to business success. Enter the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), the unsung hero of the digital age. Unlike traditional system administrators, SREs bring a software engineering perspective to the table.

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TrustRadius Project Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In looking for the best free project management software, it is all about finding the features from premium versions without the cost. Mobile support, some form of Gantt charts or Kanban boards, and a high trScore are features of each of these software. Reviewers praise the design and ease of use.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Staggered iterations lead to more technical debt and lower quality software. TL;DR; The expected result of staggered iterations would be an increase in rework and in technical debt. Move all requirements for shipping your software into your Sprint. Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Martin Hinshelwood.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 11, 2022

If you are a software engineer, show me your software projects. Luckily, this is relatively easy as most job descriptions will include a list of technical and soft skills and competencies they expect candidates to have. What types of projects should you include on your application for a new role? You get the picture.

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Scrum.org

JULY 7, 2020

On many occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. Frederick Brooks stated in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Technology is advancing at unprecedented speeds. Coding skills that were relevant two years ago might hold little value today. But assessing a candidate’s skills can take many forms – from simple programming tests to live coding challenges and take-home assignments. What coding tests reveal about your next developer.

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ActiveCollab

DECEMBER 20, 2018

At first glance, you could say these two are (fantasy) worlds apart, but people working in tech actually have more in common with classic Dungeons & Dragons classes than you might think. Software Engineer - Rogue. Dashing individuals operating from the shadows. Designer - Mage.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Agile Impediments exist at many levels, but most large scale Transformations now require that technical practices are more sound than ever. . As strategic priorities shift toward a focus on technology, hiring Scrum coaches just isn’t going to suffice to make Agile work. Agile Impediment 1: Packaged Software.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 8, 2020

And then the experiment began with a nice and tidy little community of practice composed of “fresh out of school software engineers”. Exploring technical debt. The importance of spending time exploring new technologies. Attention to technical excellence. The sessions varied from 1.5h - 2h in duration. SM and Dev).

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2022

So we went to Google Scholar and searched for review articles. 2010) reviewed 28 scientific studies that investigated how Scrum is associated with overall business outcomes. A strength of such a review is that it allows for the identification of patterns across many studies. Journal of systems and software , 81 (6), 961–971.

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Scrum.org

JULY 14, 2021

This post is a non-technical version of an academic paper about Scrum teams that I wrote with Daniel Russo. Daniel is a Professor at the University of Aalborg and is specialized in empirical software engineering. Please note that our paper is currently reviewed by academic peers. . What about Sprint Goals?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This includes training, technical support, and preparation for new releases. One of the reviewers of this article, Maarten Dalmijn , noted that he missed “product discovery” as a core activity in the work by Bass (2018). The Sprint Review is an excellent opportunity to engage in product discovery. rather than on your own”.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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MPUG

JANUARY 9, 2024

Azure DevOps offers developer systems that allow teams to organize work, collaborate on code development, and create and launch apps. It provides a collaborative culture and methods that bring together software engineers, project managers, and contributors. Here are some challenges IT administrators can face.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2023

I dove into sustainable IT and started with a ‘Planet Earth Retrospective’ for my Scrum Team, where we reviewed the Principles of Green Engineering. The sprint review showed the value they achieved for the planet, reducing an estimated 4 tons of CO2 per year. Small steps in the right direction create a big impact.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

So you want a software engineering job at Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Google/Netflix? It’s every software engineer’s dream to work with one of the top technical teams in the world. So how do you get a software engineering job at one of these companies? Self-taught vs. school: Do top tech teams really care?

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used in the software development and IT industry for the past sixteen years, but recently it has gained wide acceptance by many number of industries and organizations. In 2001 a group of software engineers and scientists in IT industry got together and wrote Agile Manifesto.

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. When I googled “software development life cycle definition” I found different variants. Phases in Software Development. Examples of Software Development Life Cycles.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It turns out that your team had been so focused on satisfying every project requirement gathered from project sponsors that they ignored one crucial user requirement for software projects: keep it simple! . Requirements analysis in software engineering . Requirements analysis techniques for identifying software requirements.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 25, 2021

The reasons for this are apparent, with software eating the world and the pace of innovation accelerating as the market-entry barriers of the technology sector are continuously lowered. Current tech trends — accelerated by the pandemic — threaten the very existence of many legacy organizations. Agile Clinic. Agile Coaching.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

Are you passionate about technology, healthcare, or perhaps entrepreneurship? The rapidly evolving job market and technological advancements can make it difficult to predict future career opportunities. Career Mapping in the Tech Industry John, a software engineer, utilized career mapping to advance his career in the tech industry.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 8, 2016

You'll also like: Book review: Growth or Bust: Proven Turnaround Strategies to Grow Your Business Growth or Bust might seem like a strange title to review from a project management perspective. Women in Science, Engineering and Technology. As it is, it’s a playbook for startups. It has taken.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Azure DevOps offers developer systems that allow teams to organize work, collaborate on code development, and create and launch apps. It provides a collaborative culture and methods that bring together software engineers, project managers, and contributors. Challenges Associated with Integration.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The connection with software development/maintenance is probably obvious. Tying Up Loose Ends in Software. If anything, you ought to ask for special permission not to keep the code clean as you go. Keeping code clean at all times really ought to be considered baseline job performance for a software engineer.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 10, 2018

For instance, in product development, the mechanical engineers don’t need to sit in on schematic reviews with the electrical engineers or code reviews with the software developers. They need to focus on the mechanical parts of the design and trust that the other engineers are doing their jobs well.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Interview coding challenges are critical when hiring new software developers. A potential candidate may look perfect on paper and ace a face-to-face interview, but how do you test their coding skills? That’s where interview coding challenges come into play. What are Interview Coding Challenges for Developers?

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Paymo App

JANUARY 25, 2018

Provided that all team members can view the project’s timeline, they’ll see exactly who is in charge of a task, when the task started and when it’s due, and if there is any gap in the timeline where they can allocate additional tasks. It also maintains your privacy through a possibility to review desktop and webcam shots.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Common causes for skills mismatches are poorly written job description ads, gaps in the hiring procedures, overemphasizing job experience over skills, and emerging technologies. they have the skills needed to succeed in a tech-focused manager-level position and their employer isn’t using those skills effectively).

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Over 200 PM experts from ExxonMobil, INEOS, DXC Technology, and other companies have shared their experience and proved that it’s a super hot topic. Business drivers have to be translated into project drivers by a strong technical team, not management. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L.

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Teamweek

JULY 28, 2020

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, however, this internship season is unlike other years. Not all industries are the same, so I’ve also included advice from interns working in journalism, tech, and finance. Here are six ways you can make the most of your remote internship: 1. Find a designated mentor.

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