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. It divides work into short, time-boxed iterations called sprints.

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PM Basics

APRIL 10, 2018

“I do not have the technical skill to become a software development project manager.” You do need to know the software development process, what goes into creating software applications. The glossary of a Software Development Project Manager. Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

Business agility is what organizations are looking for; agile software development may be one enabling factor in achieving it, but it isn’t the point of a transformation. Dividing your transformation initiative along the seams of the technical infrastructure will often be a suboptimal approach. Half-Agile Transformations.

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Taskque

AUGUST 2, 2019

Rapid Application Development. One of the best example in this regard is adaptive project framework. Rapid Application Development. In rapid application development, project teams create prototypes to identify user needs and tinker with the design. RUP is an iterative software development framework.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 31, 2018

ChefSpec Example. Here’s an example of ChefSpec from one of my side projects. The project is a set of scripts for provisioning and configuring a lightweight software development environment based on Ubuntu Server , a Linux operating system distribution. Ruby home page (Chef is written in Ruby).

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Leading Agile

JUNE 8, 2018

In Part 3 , we test-drove the initial thin vertical slice of our application. We did the application development work in Part 3. This exercise has been a relatively simple example of those things, but still a pretty realistic one. From here on out, it’s all configuration work. You became a programmer in Part 3.

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PM Basics

JULY 1, 2020

Why didn’t I show you the IT project as an example? When you are aiming for the IT sector you must know SDLC: Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management. For example, here’s a simple way to understand a person’s emotions. You don’t work in one of the main industries: Software Development.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 7, 2018

” This principle applies equally to software development. Now we’re going to do software development work. The specs are executable, and they will “fail” (display error messages) when the application does not behave according to expectations. before(:example) do. mkdir spec.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 27, 2018

Over the years, software development tools have grown in complexity and in system resource consumption. Oracle’s JDeveloper and IBM’s Rational Application Developer (RAD) have similar issues, and a fair amount of space on user forums and blogs is devoted to memory-related tuning tips to make those tools run well.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Powershell is currently under active development, and things change rapidly. Advice and examples you find outside the official Microsoft world are likely to be out of date. This may be an unfamiliar approach for readers who don’t come from an application development background.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In the 1960s, it was considered a baseline good practice in software engineering to test your code as you wrote it. The pioneers of software development in that era were proponents of various levels of testing; some advocated “unit” testing and some didn’t, but all recognized the importance of testing code.

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Leading Agile

JULY 4, 2018

ZenTest and guard are specifically intended to support Ruby application development. Let’s set up guard to monitor a trivial Ruby application similar to the Python example we looked at before. Here’s the “application” code: class Incrementer def increment number number += 1 end end.

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PM Basics

MAY 16, 2022

You don’t work in one of the main niches: Software Development. Agile Frameworks are popular in the software development industry. Here’s a shortlist of major cities with a high level of software development job opportunities. For example, a small and unsuccessful startup may take you as a manager.

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Planview

OCTOBER 8, 2020

  As a Salesforce consulting and application development firm,  Traction on Demand  also understands the need for Agile. As a key part of this Agile transformation, companies will need to shift from a project to a product-based funding model, which can be a significant challenge.  

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The names of the individual test case functions reflect a style some application developers like to use. To test such a script in isolation at the unit level, in the same way as one would unit test application code, we need a way to define ‘fake’ or ‘mock’ system commands.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM): An agile software development methodology that uses an iterative, incremental approach to project execution. While it's mostly used for software projects, it can also be used for non-software projects. are all examples of organizational 'functions'.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Browsing through the areas of focus of these conferences, I’ve noticed that there are more and more talks about integration between data sources and software applications. Web-based application developers integrate their products with desktop software, as well as with other online tools. space, as well.

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Appfluence

DECEMBER 14, 2018

While product management as the modern discipline that it is today is most often associated with software development, it is recommended for all industries and actually got its start in consumer goods. 1980s-Product Management in Software Development. This is absolutely critical. Clear and Updated Product Roadmap.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. That’s just it. Great question, though.

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Appfluence

DECEMBER 14, 2018

While product management as the modern discipline that it is today is most often associated with software development, it is recommended for all industries and actually got its start in consumer goods. 1980s-Product Management in Software Development. This is absolutely critical. Clear and Updated Product Roadmap.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

And so this is where agile kind of fits in and isn’t just necessarily only for software development. And remember, agile is kind of born out of the need for technical project management or in many cases, software development. But it is clearly not limited to just software. They’re looking at teams.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 24, 2019

So if I do a file open, let’s just grab an example so you can kind of see this. And any one of these, for example, if I want to go down and pick a project, I can click on, let’s just find our biothermal. So again, the idea is to find the blend for you. Okay, now let’s actually watch the fun happen.

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MPUG

JANUARY 4, 2021

For at least twenty years and counting, the world around us has become more and more software driven, and, as a result, more digital. Electric vehicles are about 50% software, in terms of value, whereas fossil fuel cars are mostly hardware. Banks have essentially been software developing organizations for a long time.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

When it comes to software development tools, bigger is better. Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) keep growing. Here’s an example from JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA. The illustration captures sections of the screen as the developer moves the cursor across a line of source code. Apparently. Feature Bloat.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In contrast, Edward Yourdon’s book, Death March: The Complete Software Developer’s Guide to Surviving ‘Mission Impossible’ Projects , describes the harm the death march pattern causes and advises software development teams on how to survive it. Survival is the best the teams can hope for.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 20, 2018

But in the software development world, the domains of IT, there are two other colors of money. There are two types of software that are developed for a business: 1) internal-use software, and 2) software developed to be sold, leased or marketed (“software to be sold”). CAPEX and OPEX.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 23, 2020

In their words: DevOpsDays is a worldwide series of community run technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. In their words: The Biggest multitrack Tech Conference of the Netherlands for all software developers. NET Developer Days.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

For example, the average technical interview score required to get an offer at a major enterprise or tech company rose 12% last year. For example, engineers who are comfortable with unfamiliar tech and pick it up quickly over those who would go for rigid frameworks. This trend continued into 2024, with an estimated 95,000 tech layoffs.

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