The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2025

It is useful, but it cannot reroute you around a sudden traffic jam or a newly closed bridge. Responsible stewardship – the obligation to assess impacts on employees, customers and society. The paradigm shift: from paper map to dynamic GPS Picture the difference between a folded paper map and a dynamic GPS. PMBoK Guide, ITIL etc.)

Artificial Inteligence

Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2025

Product Ownership was redefined to encourage self-management, with Developers taking charge of Sprint Planning and participating in Backlog Refinement. Consistent Scrum Events, especially the Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives, improved transparency, allowing teams to share insights and accelerate feedback loops.

Technical Review

Scrum.org

JULY 1, 2025

Instead, conduct security tests, code reviews, and performance checks continuously, as close to code creation as possible. It’s about closing feedback loops quickly, enabling continuous improvement, and delivering valuable increments faster. Accountability for improvement lies squarely within the team.

Software Review

Leantime - Project Management

JULY 12, 2025

The modern development landscape is rapidly evolving. With AI agents becoming more capable and development teams becoming more distributed, the challenge isn’t just managing code—it’s coordinating work between human developers and AI agents in a way that maximizes productivity without creating chaos.

Development Team Review

Scrum.org

JUNE 12, 2025

These Product Owners engage with customers and stakeholders while also working closely with the team, ensuring a direct link between market needs and product development. The Product Owner focuses on the development team, refining the backlog and ensuring work aligns with priorities.

Underperforming Technical Team

Henny Portman

DECEMBER 18, 2024

It also provides practical examples, such as managing multiple development teams, adopting a construction pattern, and integrating with Agile Digital Services (AgileDS). In AgilePM v2, what were previously referred to as DSDM products are now called AgilePM Work-Products, aligning them more closely with specific Scrum artifacts.

Development Team Review

Wrike

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Your workflow is no longer a straight line, but this is a far better reflection of the way most development teams (and even some creative teams ) actually process their project work. It’s important to document your process before you close it for good. To use an Agile workflow effectively, you’ll need: A team lead.

Agile

Wrike

MAY 28, 2025

You know what the final product should look like in the very first phase of the project, you sign off on each major task before work on the next one begins, and you review the whole project in a single closing phase. Theyre built into the daily standups known as Scrum meetings which your team holds.

Underperforming Technical Team

Wrike

JULY 9, 2024

The environment can be fast paced , due to the speed of change and the urgency of requests. In essence, software development teams often have to be more adaptable than other departments at a company in order to mitigate the unique risks. The development team at JERA puts this into real terms.

Software Developers

Wrike

APRIL 10, 2025

Monitor the gap between the ideal line (projected progress) and the actual effort line (real progress) to assess if youre on schedule. You wont be able to see which tasks have been started, how close they are to completion, or predict when dependent tasks will be completed during a sprint. How do I read a burndown chart?

Underperforming Technical Team

Scoro

JULY 17, 2025

Here are two ways to do it: Look backward: Assess your leadership team and their needs By looking at the strengths and weaknesses of your leadership team members, you can figure out where they need extra training and support. Team stagnation and inefficiency due to inconsistent onboarding and development.

Technical Review

Wrike

JULY 25, 2025

And then some want their workflow management to form part of a wider project management system to close the gaps in their processes. Approval workflows An approval workflow manages the way your workflow outputs are reviewed and authorized. Jotform is an approval tool primarily used by B2B teams.

Process

Wrike

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

They speak about how to initiate, plan, execute, and close successfully (covering all the steps youll find in Wrikes in-depth project management guide ) and just assume you work in a hospital rather than an office. But theres a problem with the assumption that classic project management advice automatically applies to healthcare.

Healthcare

NimbleWork

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Close deals with 50 new enterprise customers. Stage 2: Cascading to the Regional Sales Teams Objective: Close Deals with 50 New Enterprise Customers (derived from the Sales Department KR) Key Results: 1. close 30 deals). ” Team-Level Alignment : Teams create OKRs that align with the organization’s strategic goals.

2026

Gunther Verheyen

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Besides delivering the closing keynote about “ Moving (your) Scrum Downfield ” and having many hallway conversations, I also attended a few sessions by fellow speakers. They felt much more respected for the huge impact they all had on the future of the product they took part in developing. (2)

SCRUM

Wrike

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Try Wrike for free Book a demo Popular workflow types (with 7 real examples) Youll need several different workflows to drive the variety of tasks your team completes. The task might then sit in a queue until the team has capacity for it. Review: Test and approve the work.

Software Review

UPQODE

JUNE 19, 2025

Source: Unsplash Cross-Team Collaboration Fuels Growth Growth doesn’t happen in isolation. Teams outside of marketing generate valuable information every day – information that can guide campaigns, messaging, and experimentation. Product development teams track user requests, feature adoption, and roadmap priorities.

Underperforming Technical Team

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This time we take the perspective of the Development Team. Development Team – Why your Scrum Doesn’t work (2/3) (this post). The posts are based on my own experience when I practiced the roles of Development Team (member), Product Owner, and Scrum Master. Development Team.

Development Team Review

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. For this purpose it defines three roles, a scrum master, a product owner and a development team, made up of several team members.

SCRUM

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

For example, it’s in this section that you will list out, “the front-end development team will be available during this project time period”, or, “the customer support team will receive new product training by x time.” Your project scope statement outline will help act as markers as you build out your full scope statement.

Development Team Review

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 13, 2020

A sprint is an iteration in the development cycle of a project. The sprint is defined by a small amount of planned work that the team has to complete and ready for review. Teams work collaboratively to complete the sprint and have it ready for review. Once the sprint is finished, there’s a sprint review meeting.

Planning

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

They work with development teams to track progress and identify potential risks, as well as liaise with other departments such as QA, ops teams, service management, and support. The release manager at my last job worked closely with the development team to review what code changes would be coming.

Technical Review

Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 8, 2021

As our family is a long standing team, the Develop Team process is less relevant than the Manage Team one and significant effort has been spent to ensure that team members are engaged, motivated and focused! In the final article in this trilogy I will cover the remaining three PMBOK knowledge areas.

Development Team Review

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Release planning lets software development teams plan better, direct their efforts more effectively and release projects incrementally, which helps the customer experience. Release planning is a great way for scrum teams to plan their sprints when working in product development. Learn More!

Agile

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Software development and product development teams use a burn out chart as these fields tend to work in a more iterative, agile fashion. As you work on the project and fill in the burn up chart, you’ll be able to see how fast the scrum team is working. Review and Revise You’re not done yet.

Agile

Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

Any of the examples will impede the team’s productivity and might endanger the Sprint goal. The Scrum Master must prevent them from manifesting themselves: The Scrum Master has a laissez-faire policy as far as access to the Development team is concerned. Forecast imposed: The Sprint forecast is not a team-based decision.

SCRUM

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

SAFe's approach to product ownership is that scale is achieved by splitting the product ownership role between Product Management, which is more like the classic Scrum Product Owner, and the Product Owner, which is indeed more like a proxy or technical product owner working more closely with teams.

SCRUM

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Additionally, I have a strong background in product discovery, which involves identifying customer needs, validating product ideas, and conducting experiments to inform product development decisions. Comment : I doubt that ChatGPT know the 2020 Scrum Guide as it still refers to the Development Team and ignores the Product Goal.

ChatGPT

The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development team members) who work collaboratively to deliver value in an Agile project. Backlog A list of tasks, features, or requirements to be addressed by an agile project manager or team and is often associated with Agile methodologies.

Development Team Review

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Over my 15 years of experience with Scrum, I’ve observed velocity-driven and capacity-driven sprint planning as our ways of working when we figure out the amount of work the development team can take during a sprint. The development team decided to set a WIP limit of 10 on its Ready column based on its throughput run chart.

Planning

nTask

DECEMBER 8, 2020

And it is closely linked to the development of schedules and cost plans. The project managers, stakeholders, and the dev team have to jump over a lot of hoops and obstacles to meet the deadlines on time and making sure that the client deliverables are delivered on time. Resource risks are not assessed.

Underperforming Technical Team

Scrum.org

AUGUST 1, 2022

It may suffice to move an item on the Scrum Board or Kanban Board to “Done” or “Ready for Review”, although a verbal statement is probably clearer for teams where the Scrum Board isn’t visible all the time. This ties closely into research on team cognition and cross-functionality. Closing words. L., & Serfaty, D.

2004

MPUG

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

In one of my earlier articles, The Twins–Communications and Stakeholder Management , I outlined how deeply and closely these two knowledge areas of the PMBOK® guide interact with each other. While other KAs can possibly interact with the twins like siblings in a family, no other area comes as close to the twins as Resource Management.

Closing

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Reassigning Team Members : Frequently moving team members between Scrum Teams disrupts the building of trust and undermines the stability and effectiveness of teams​​. In the absence of this feedback, teams may engage in gold-plating under the assumption that they are adding value.

SCRUM

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Although I’m not a highly technical guy, I have always worked closely with software development teams and the book contains so many great ideas that benefit development teams. In order to make the start as smooth as possible, you spend lots of time with the team to practice the Scrum kickstart.

SCRUM

Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2020

When I started out in a Scrum Team we never really had a Sprint Goal, our focus tended to be looking at the items in the backlog then saying "Get that done and that one, if not all of them!" . One purpose of the Sprint Goal is to provide focus to the Development Team during the Sprint. Not a great place to be in!

Development Team Review

Binfire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Online assessment tests have become inseparable parts of every organization, and their vital role has increased over the past couple of years. However, establishing a successful online assessment test is a challenging undertaking. This blog post will discuss how project management principles can improve online assessment results.

Development Team Review