The IIL Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Align with the Business Need A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge ( PMBOK ), the bible for project managers, states that “projects are initiated due to internal business needs or external influences”. I like to do assessments from time to time, beyond the regular meetings and updates.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

For that, you need online project management software. ProjectManager is online project management software that can generate customizable reports that show real-time data to help you see your progress and make more insightful decisions. Review and Revise You’re not done yet. Burn up chart example from pm.stackexchange.com.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 27, 2019

Scrum ceremonies are meetings that are unique to scrum teams. Scrum ceremonies ensure that everyone (the scrum master, product owner and development team) is in-sync. A sprint employs four different scrum ceremonies to ensure proper execution: sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 23, 2020

There are other names for virtual teams, such as “geographically dispersed teams” or “remote teams,” but they all mean the same thing: people working together without being physically together. Product Development Teams. Related: 7 Tips for a Smooth Virtual Meeting. Action Teams.

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Epicflow Blog

JULY 5, 2024

A capacity planning tool is software developed to assist organizations in allocating and managing their resources more effectively. Features of a capacity planning software Here are some key functionalities a robust capacity planning tool should possess. Why do you need capacity planning software?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2020

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. Read on to learn how.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This is where powerful capacity planning software can make a difference. What is Manufacturing Capacity Planning Software? Capacity planning software helps ensure resource availability for current and upcoming projects and reduces the risks of overload. These factors contribute to increasing team members’ productivity.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 2, 2024

Five Ways To Split Product Backlog Items Product Backlog Items (PBI) are supposed to be units of value i.e. they’re supposed to be tangible items that can be used by customers, and they’re designed to help product development teams in getting genuine feedback. To deliver this value lots of activities need to happen. Subscribe here

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In most project management software, there are four ways to link tasks together to build a schedule. An example would be activities carried out by a third party that need to be reviewed by someone outside the project before you could carry on with whatever it is you are doing. You have to develop the software within brand guidelines.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 15, 2022

What [shall we] do when a product requires many development teams? Your emphasis on teams that include all of the many stakeholders implies that everyone needs to have a basic understanding of every aspect of the product and delivery. Do you have any] tips on getting senior leadership to buy in with becoming more outcome-based?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In fact, the Scrum events REDUCE the time Developers spend meeting. . . We can’t deliver working software in less than one month! (You The second most common objection I hear is that the Developers won’t be able to deliver a Done increment in less than one month. You can if you deliver smaller pieces). .

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nTask

DECEMBER 8, 2020

These qualifications have evolved due to the challenges that are faced by the companies in the project management paradigm – and that too on daily basis. And it is closely linked to the development of schedules and cost plans. Pro Tip: nTask is equipped with plenty of road-mapping tools. Resource risks are not assessed.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

Another common cause for a Scrum Team to consistently fail in meeting their forecasts is that the team’s Product Backlog items are being poorly prepared, thus making the work items difficult for the team to estimate. Trends derived from these polls are great points for discussion during a team’s Sprint Retrospectives.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. Scrum Anti-Patterns: From Product Backlog to Sprint Review. Development teams often create tasks an engineer can finish within a day.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2022

What [shall we] do when a product requires many development teams? Your emphasis on teams that include all of the many stakeholders implies that everyone needs to have a basic understanding of every aspect of the product and delivery. Do you have any] tips on getting senior leadership to buy in with becoming more outcome-based?

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

So, to show your team that you genuinely care about their happiness and future with the company, here are some amazing tips that you can use. 6 Amazing Tips to Boost Team Morale. Here are some of the tips that we are going to discuss in this article. Keep the Team Mindset Creative and Active. Conclusion.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

My reading tip: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.). This Sprint Planning checklist is modeled after a former Scrum Team of a large multi-national, traditional utility company at the beginning of its Scrum journey. Ask the team members to focus on moving tickets to “Done” before starting work on new tickets.

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Scrum.org

JULY 28, 2021

As an employee of a development team, how do I know if this is the case? Let's start with a simple question for the team: The Customer . How many people are between the user and the development team? I have collected 6 tips for this: 1. Do we ever want to invite a user to the sprint review?

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2020

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, chances are that everyone in your organization is working from home. This includes your Product Owner and Development Team. In general, use these 10 tips to have productive and engaging virtual meetings. How does working remotely impact the collaboration with the Development Team?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 22, 2019

For years, I’ve fulfilled the role of Scrum Master for many different organizations and Scrum Teams. These teams were mostly focused on software development. These organizations were able to attract the smartest developers and create products customers loved. Examples of a Developer Culture.

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nTask

AUGUST 22, 2019

Some of its approaches, other than Scrum , include Extreme Programming (XP) for quality upfront building, Lean thinking for waste elimination and the Agile Unified Process (AUP) approach to developing business application software using agile techniques. The Scrum team is divided as follows: Product Owner. a Scrum Master.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

On average, IT projects come with more complexity and risk, and can quickly fall to pieces without proper due diligence, management, and leadership. However, as IT projects often require a deeper understanding of technology, many IT PMs have a background in software development or IT support. And that’s no simple job.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Team cognition is similar in the sense that the entire team can be thought of as a body, where each member (the limbs) has to learn how to coordinate their work effectively to move forward. This shared understanding is captured in the “team mental models” that drive team cognition. It takes time to develop teams.

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Wrike

JULY 9, 2024

How can you ensure your software projects are delivered to brief and can adapt to unexpected challenges, user feedback, and market development? Project management systems for software development usually prioritize oversight, because that’s what managers need to lead projects effectively. The projects can be more complex.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

These teams struggle with Agile practices as business analysts author reams of business requirements only to have a development team write the user stories. Business representatives assume the product owner role but only check in with their team at the sprint review. The development team is distributed.

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Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Sprints are the backbone of any good Agile development team. Spring planning helps to refocus attention, minimize surprises, and (hopefully) guarantee better code gets shippied. But maybe more than that, sprint planning aligns the development team with the product owner. Step 1: Review your product roadmap.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Here are some tips for selling Agile project management methodology to stakeholders: 1. In certain cases, it’s possible to cling to legacy or home-rolled project management practices even when development teams have moved into some form of Agile development. Stack the team with people who thrive on ambiguity and change.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

Just in case you didn’t know what extreme programming is, it is a form of agile framework where PMs get the best out of available resources in a software development environment. These short iterative cycles help both team members and customers to assess and review the project’s progress throughout its development.

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Planio

OCTOBER 19, 2021

And whether you’re a designer, developer, team lead, or administrator, your job requires many of the same skills that separate the best project managers: organization, effective collaboration, and being goal-oriented. Step 12: Plan your first sprint as a team. Step 13: Review progress and adjust your plan.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2022

This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. Finally, we offer practical tips to talk about pacing with your team and keeping it manageable. References.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This is why expert healthcare project managers emphasize the importance of project management and task-tracking software, which brings transparency to their workload and timeline and removes the gaps in their process. Case study: Entrust Disability Services Entrust Disability Services provides private residences for people with disabilities.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

That could take two weeks and cost $100,000 when factoring in the new software license, the team's burn rate, and the cost of delay to the organization. Assessing the chances of loss or gain occur throughout all forms of business and relies on taking an economic view of decision making. Risks Actions in the Backlog.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

It “offers guidance to the Development Team on why it is building the Increment”. But the Sprint Goal can be any other coherence that causes the Development Team to work together rather than on separate initiatives”. The Daily Scrum is used by the “The Development Team [.]

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

This helped us to simplify how nTask project management software can be used for solving such issues. Its simplicity and ease of implementation has made it the most popular version of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) for software engineering and IT projects. Waterfall is a popular SDLC project management model.

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Agilemania

AUGUST 21, 2022

We also have some great tips on how you can create a successful sprint process in Jira so that you can start seeing results quickly and efficiently. At the start of a sprint, the team brainstorms which tasks need to be completed and creates a plan of action. Sprints are an essential part of agile software development.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

Ready to transform your approach to project management and software development? Let’s dive into the Agile world and discover the methodology that best aligns with your goals, team, and projects. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges. What are the Top 5 Agile Methodologies? What Makes Kanban Agile?

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 25, 2022

By asking your team this top question, you’ll prompt a discussion around what all projects aspire to but rarely deliver. Ultimately, all project stakeholders will contribute to achieving what is promised so start early with a candid and realistic review of what can be delivered when and for how much. Wrapping up .

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