The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Risks of Rushed Decision-Making While some decisions require quick thinking, rushing into major choices without reflection can have serious consequences. Research from Harvard Medical School has also shown that REM sleep plays a significant role in creative problem-solving.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In the practice of project management, the focus is often placed on leadership to achieve success; however, leadership – no matter the style – is of little to no effect if the project manager has low EI and fosters psychologically unsafe environments. So, what is EI?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Starting an ecommerce business can be incredibly rewarding if you can manage to create a valuable offering that your customers will be glad to pay for. It’s time for you to get a share of that pie, and you can with the right business idea and the tools to manage it , including the ideal payment processor. trillion in the U.S.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 28, 2021

PRINCE2 is a project management method. It’s structured, and experience-based, created from the lived experience of thousands of project managers and successful projects. It’s a customizable way of managing and controlling the work. I took my first Practitioner course in 2004. Manage by stages. What is PRINCE2?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The core responsibilitie of the agile leader is creating the right context for the agile teams so they can thrive and self-manage. Low quality and high risk will result. The team actually needs more space, and the manager should let go a lot more. How can the manager know for certain? Frances Hesselbein.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 16, 2022

Sign up for the Facebook Project Management Cafe and join in the discussion. Colin: It’s one of those things, when I first started out as a project manager I was hired because I was good with people and I could create good teams. I recently did a Live Q&A with Colin Ellis in my Facebook group. Are you a member yet?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2021

For many people, the traditional project management methodologies (see PMI / PRINCE2) are the root of the problems that birthed Waterfall. Frederick Winslow Taylor is a controversial figure in management history. Traditional management practices were born out of the disengagement of the workforce. Vincenzo Sandrone.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2016

What really works might surprise you – it’s definitely something to work on when you are thinking about positive project risk! Specifically, Movable Type’s May 2004 decision to change the terms of its license. You'll also like: Launch of Project Management in the Real World! Extract from Science of Growth.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 27, 2018

So COMMON SENSE should be at the forefront to manage the perception of how these activities are facilitated. Risk: Uncertainties that may be encountered in implementation. Here are some examples of SMILEs that I began to create in 2004 in conjunction with my dissertation that focused specifically on project management.

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nTask

JANUARY 21, 2019

A renowned athlete, Trotter won her first Olympic gold medal in the 2004 Olympics. On Brown’s part, there was an exhibition of risk-taking and present-mindedness. The coach did not take the risk and took an important decision in the team’s best interests. Example #1: Dee Dee Trotter – 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Now To Risk Management. Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

This article, How to Create a Project Team Culture with Colin Ellis , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. Sign up for the Facebook Project Management Cafe and join in the discussion. I guess we’ve all got a particular skill, and way back in ’97 when I first started project managing, that was mine.

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The IIL Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Stress and burnout have been recognized as serious project management problems for years, but until recently companies have been reluctant to face the problems head on. Some project managers thrive on stress and seem to avoid burnout. There is risk that burnout can spread to the entire team if not identified and controlled.

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The IIL Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

In this second article, Robin explores the concept of alignment, specific techniques the project manager can apply to achieve it, and the benefits it can bring in addition to the promise of enabling productive owner/provider engagement. I hesitate to call it a prerequisite because project management (PM) is not a science.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Managment Processes. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Top Habits of Successful Project Managers. The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of Performance Management. Flawless Execution.

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International Institute for Learning

JULY 7, 2022

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). We can say the Agile methods have well-interpreted the so-called Copernican Revolution in management.

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MPUG

AUGUST 28, 2023

Introduction Enterprise Project Management (EPM) is an enterprise view of Project Management activities. 2004, Enterprise Project Management, p. 1) EPM reflects a distinctive way of thinking about how your organization manages its projects. 2004, Enterprise Project Management, p. Ireland, L.,

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The IIL Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Collaborative project management and business alignment are closely related, and ultimately result in what I call a Delivery Organization. This organization-centric concept of project management (PM) acknowledges the obvious – corporate projects operate in a corporate environment which can be favorable or unfavorable. Why is that?

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves , Daniel Galaorath and Michael Evans , Auerbach, 2006. Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products , Jim Highsmith, Addison Wesley, 2004. IT Risk Management. Let's start with some books.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 24, 2016

I got the Kindle version, so I have a $10 investment at risk. This graph is from old 2004 numbers. IT Risk Management. I've started reading Vasco's book #NoEstimates and will write a detailed deconstruction. Let's start with some graphs that have been around and their misinformation that forms the basis of the book.

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Redbooth

AUGUST 30, 2018

Security and task management features make it more appealing to enterprise customers, ensuring steady revenue growth. launched in 2004. When your whole team values learning, you can take more risks, help others (and ask for help), and try things outside of your job description. Source: Google. You can innovate.

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Redbooth

AUGUST 30, 2018

Security and task management features make it more appealing to enterprise customers, ensuring steady revenue growth. launched in 2004. When your whole team values learning, you can take more risks, help others (and ask for help), and try things outside of your job description. Source: Google. You can innovate.

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Redbooth

AUGUST 30, 2018

Security and task management features make it more appealing to enterprise customers, ensuring steady revenue growth. launched in 2004. When your whole team values learning, you can take more risks, help others (and ask for help), and try things outside of your job description. Source: Google. You can innovate.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 15, 2021

A lot of managers and project ideation teams face the same challenge. You need a workflow like Kanban project management that helps you understand how your project will proceed, the resources needed, their need of allocation and shifting and the amount of time required to complete each milestone. . Understand that you’re not alone.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2020

What was that, probably 2004, or ’05 or something in that kind of range, I think? – And I was a project manager. – And you were a project manager in a different part of the organization. – Sure, sure. – I’m giving you a really open palette here, so be careful please. – Yeah, yeah.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Management of this reduction work and measurement of the progress is a Close Loop Control System paradigm. The creation and management of the Plan is usually performed by the Program Planning and Controls group where I work. .

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MPUG

MARCH 25, 2021

The idea though with systems and project management theory were drawn… Our attention is drawn to the fact that hey you know what, if there are risks, if there are issues that need escalation, there has to be a certain level of governance. This is the way.” But I took this job because I was a little stressed out with it.

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ActiveCollab

JULY 18, 2017

The most successful people in the business have 5 things in common: They have laser focus; They are excellent short and long term organizers; They learn from their mistakes; They adapt easily; They take calculated risks. Steve Jobs](([link] used to spend his mornings in meetings with his product and management teams. Steve Jobs.

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Workzone

AUGUST 27, 2019

In the past, managers were viewed by their employees and organizations as valuable commodities. They were seen as capable leaders with distinct management styles who guided their organization’s teams to success. Unfortunately, over the last few years , the opinion on managers’ value seems to have eroded. Not anymore.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Demos, a British think tank, described this in a 2004 report as a key moment in the arrival of a “Pro-Am” era, a time when professionals and amateurs work side by side: “Astronomy used to be done in ‘big science’ research institutes. But what are the chances that you’ll get to manage a giant project like that?

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MPUG

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Walter Stinnett’s Requirements Management Panel Discussion, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. We are doing requirements management Q&A. Walter serves as a program manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. I’m still a program manager.

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Appfluence

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In 2004, Stratford Sherman and Alyssa Freas published an article on executive coaching in the Harvard Business Review. Here they characterized the executive coaching terrain as a frontier that was “chaotic, largely unexplored, and fraught with risk, yet immensely promising.” What is Executive Coaching?

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Wrike

JULY 7, 2023

If you’re looking for a powerful work management platform, you’ll know how challenging it is to find the right balance in terms of cost, capabilities, and ease of use. With so many different project management software solutions available, it might seem impossible to choose just one. Try Wrike for free What is Smartsheet?

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Walter Stinnett’s Project Managers are Change Managers webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Project Managers are Change Managers. Walter serves as a program manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. Welcome everyone.

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PM That Works

MAY 30, 2020

She's an internationally trained and certified Mind Body nutrition and wellness practitioner, and also an expert in stress relief management and conscious relationships. My family and I are survivors of the 2004 Asian tsunami. Breathing is the cornerstone of stress management. How are you Cheryl?

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