The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

By Dr. Al Zeitoun and Dr. Harold Kerzner July 24, 2024 The future of project management must have a balance between the tactical and strategic focus, in addition to a balance between digital and human. Q1) Based on your observation, what are the challenges facing project management now? Project Management (PM) 4.0

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 21, 2021

Today I’m interviewing Rachel Mata , Lead Project Manager at Edu-tech company Instructor Brandon. Rachel, how did you get into project management? After that, I got another job as a Coordinator in an Educational Institute, supporting and ensuring the projects were finished and managing resources for those projects.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 3, 2025

Construction project management is designed to deliver projects on time and on budget while maintaining or improving quality. This involves creative problem solving to find innovative solutions to meet project objectives by collaborating with stakeholders, designers, engineers and contractors. What is value engineering in construction?

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Along with greater clarity and long-term perspective, this planning method offers you continued motivation, stronger self-belief, and the ability to manage time more effectively. More Detailed Plan for Better Innovation Identifying end tasks first can result in a more detailed plan, which may also lead to a more accurate schedule.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Estimation is a complementary practice Scrum Teams use in Product D evelopment. The purpose of estimation is to provide a rough idea of how much effort, time, and budget are needed to complete specific features or PBI- Product Backlog Item of the product.

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Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2018

Often I hear people say that Scrum does not take care of risk: there is no risk log, risk is not on the agenda of the Sprint Review or Retrospective as a standard agenda-item. That's a risk right there! How is risk managed in Scrum? Scrum is all about risk management. Different types of risks.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Over the past decade, the landscape of project management has been significantly influenced by the rise of Agile methodologies and the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Evolution of Project Controls Project controls have always been the backbone of successful project management.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2023

Project managers understand this and work hard to create change management plans that ensure their projects run smoothly. Project management software helps, too, but if you’re not ready to upgrade, we have some free change management templates that can help you manage change. Remember, this is a change request.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In fact, in some lean or agile organizations, over-reliance on documentation is seen as a clear impediment to innovation and collaboration. Stakeholders: Whether they’re clients, vendors, upper management, departmental leaders or other contributors to the project, meet with them. Don’t forget to include a risk management plan.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Finally, we’ll offer links to a few free construction project management templates to help manage industrial construction projects. Being able to manage all these elements, including scheduling and the costs involved in industrial construction requires project management software. What Is Industrial Construction?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

Yes, they do enjoy profits, but those come when markets are consistent, where managers can plan accurately for a future that is clearly laid out before them. There are trends and systems that can calculate and estimate the likelihood of what is to come, but the reality is there are too many variables to make any such equation infallible.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2023

Leadership can take many forms, from historical figures to project managers and business managers. ProjectManager is project management software that allows leaders to create plans, manage resources and keep track of time, tasks and budgets in real time. But what are the qualities of a leader? Get started for free.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

There’s no denying that project management today looks different to how it did even 5 years ago. Project management trends shape our profession. We see technology evolving, new tools, consolidation, innovation and more. How project management is evolving. 10 Project management trends you need to know.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 4, 2022

That’s a long and complicated journey in construction project management, which is why knowing the best construction delivery method is so important. There are many different types, from design-bid-build, design-build and construction manager at risk to integrated project delivery, job order contracting and public-private partnerships.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Dear Elizabeth: I work in a technical team as a project manager. We do a lot of projects that are innovative (for us), and my development colleagues always seem reluctant when it comes to project planning. How do you deal with a team that refuses to estimate how long tasks will take? ” It depends on what?

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

By Jorgelina Bross-Puglisi By 2050 renewable energy could account for 90% of the world’s electricity and effective project management will be key to achieving this ambitious goal. Managing these vast and intricate projects requires not only technical expertise but also sophisticated project management capabilities.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Accidental project managers are professionals who unexpectedly find themselves leading projects without formal project management training. However, they also face distinct challenges, including the need to quickly acquire project management skills and navigate complex project landscapes without prior experience.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

One might conclude that agile approaches to project management, such as Scrum, mean there is no need for gate reviews. They consider the resources needed, potential risks, and strategic alignment for the next phase. We suggest blanket statements like that are of little use and amount to checking our brains at the door.

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Planio

MARCH 31, 2025

Deduce , decide , and deliver (Convergent) 5 ways to become a more divergent thinker Final thoughts: Creativity and innovation are risky business What is convergent vs. divergent thinking? This unconscious bias typically aligns with other characteristics, such as our personality traits, risk-appetite, and work style.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The manufacturing industry faces numerous challenges that can affect the success of manufacturing project s, from supply chain issues to risks related to digital technology integration. Workforce shortages combined with the increased demand for products add extra complexity to manufacturing project management. Risk and Uncertainty.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2021

estimating the work in size and value. Refinement is simply the ongoing activity of having these conversations and thus an essential product management activity. This gives the Product Backlog a level of transparency that reduces the risk. Estimating Product Backlog items. eliminating dependencies within the work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2021

Professor Tirado is a native New Yorker, and when he started out in this field he was one of 5 people in the world who married together managing initiatives through projects and industrial psychology. Project management is affecting how humans perform or adopt technology. So the change management and training is not intensive.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

People are becoming more risk-friendly and bearing the flags of an entrepreneur. However, even with a group of innovative designers, engineers, marketers, and salespeople, 90 percent of start-ups fail miserably and end up shutting down their enterprises, as per reports by Forbes. Estimate your success or progress rate.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

Everyone wants their projects to be “quality” but I often get asked about how to manage project quality in real life. You probably already know that you need a quality management plan , and that management, assurance and control are the pillars of doing it right. What does it mean to “do” project quality?

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Epicflow Blog

JUNE 10, 2022

Accordingly, they are more vulnerable to the consequences of risk-bearing events. When unmanaged, these risks can impact people’s safety and, to make matters worse, come down to considerable financial losses. . What are the most typical risks associated with aerospace engineering projects, and how to manage them effectively?

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Planio

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Each gate serves as a checkpoint to monitor project progress, mitigate risks, align stakeholders, and make key decisions before proceeding further. Jump to a section: What is the Stage Gate process in project management? What is the Stage Gate process in project management? Reduces risks. Sounds pretty good, right?

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. Product Owner Theses: Internal Stakeholder Management. The role requires that Product Owners act like product managers.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2019

Those are then sized or estimated in so-called story points that follow typically the Fibonacci sequence. Many books and articles have been written about user stories and estimation, which I don’t want to repeat at this point. We will explore topics like value, innovation, risks, metrics and agile portfolio management.

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Lodgify

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Since short-term rentals can be unoccupied for long periods of time and guests could cause property damage, insurance companies consider them to be very high risk. All property managers have to do is simply add the guest-paid insurance fee to their listing. What does Safely offer? $1 What does Truvi offer?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2021

A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. 19 Product Owner Interview Questions on the Product Backlog, Refinement, Forecasts, and Estimates. What items need to be split?

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 8, 2016

This is where the dynamics of managing and overseeing production processes get tricky. Project Management Challenges. This lack of CM visibility into OEM’s priorities, and OEM’s visibility into CM project statuses introduces a significant amount of risk into the supply chain and delivery dates. A Single Source of Truth.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2024

These striking innovations, which look like toys, are the facade of a profound shift in the industrial paradigm based on speed of change, open-source, decentralization, and composability. Changing a traditional production tool is long and difficult, generating high costs, hindering innovation, and causing loss of economic opportunities.

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 24, 2016

A lot of people think that the most important contribution of a project manager is building the plan. That’s what a project manager does —breaks work structures into tasks; identifies the dependencies; feeds tasks into a project management tool; works with the functional managers to build the right team , and assigns tasks to team members.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

Read on and learn more about how a project management tool that is reasonably usable when you use it out of the box without any modifications turns into a bureaucratic nightmare, what the reasons for this might be, and what we can do about it. ?? A desire for predictability and standardization across the organization can drive this.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 17, 2021

However, he brought in an unexpected and innovative strategy and won the match 3-0. So it was clear for me now that even within an environment seemingly still and slow-paced (AAA game with 3 major updates in 10 years) amazing and innovative things can and do happen. . This has earned him the nickname ‘revolutionist’.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2016

This time last year I reviewed the trends in social and collaborative technology in the project management space: some of my predictions had come to nothing and it was interesting to look backward and hold myself accountable for what I said would happen. The APM has already made huge inroads to gaining Chartered status for Project Managers.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 26, 2022

You have to deliver your product at consistently high-quality standards, navigate end-to-end supply chains and manage strict time-to-market deadlines driven by eager customers or seasonal demands. Or it could be a first-time project where estimating how long each phase will really take is hard work. Managing Stakeholder Expectations.

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