The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

By Rick Lemieux – Co-Founder, DVMS Institute July 24, 2024 Cybersecurity project managers manage risk and threats in cybersecurity projects. Benefits of Effective Project Management in Cyber Security Risk Management Effective project management can benefit organizations in the cybersecurity risk management industry.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Managing a project isn’t an abstract concept. The earlier problems are spotted, the easier it is to implement corrective measures and reduce risk. ProjectManager is online project management software that has robust Gantt charts on which you can link all four types of task dependencies and even filter for the critical path.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Where it once implied daydreaming, now it is the realm of innovative businesses and forward-thinking leaders. While cloud storage has become a given for both personal and business use, before exploring how organizations are using the technology in innovative ways, it’s important to take an unbiased look at the service.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 19, 2024

With its flexible and iterative nature, Scrum helps identify risks in product development. Events are feedback loops and opportunities to mitigate risks through transparency, inspection and adaptation. Scrum addresses this risk through regular sprint reviews where stakeholders provide feedback in shorter loops.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The essence of a standout Scrum Master lies in their ability to blend leadership with collaboration, ensuring that the team learns to self-manage and is focused on delivering exceptional value. Continuous Improvement: A standout Scrum Master constantly seeks to improve processes, enhance team self-management skills, and increase efficiency.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The project management software is expensive, complicated and not collaborative. Let’s look at several open-source Microsoft Project alternatives and see what they have to offer, where they succeed as project management software and where they fall short. They often don’t have program and portfolio management features, but we do.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By Rick Lemieux – Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of the DVMS Institute October 2, 2024 Human risk, the potential for human error, negligence, or malicious intent to compromise an organization, is an inherent and pervasive challenge in any organization. This unpredictability makes it difficult to anticipate and prevent human errors.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 2, 2024

Creativity is the cornerstone of innovation. It turns your work from average to outstanding, fixes problems, anticipates risks , and delivers better products and services, supporting the creation of superior solutions for customers and businesses. Getting innovative solutions often means empowering your team to be more creative.

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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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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Neglecting these risks can lead to project delays, budget overruns, and even project failure, which will negatively impact a manufacturer’s reputation. Therefore, a proactive approach to effective risk management is critical. Second, innovative technology may not bring the expected results at once.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Organizations have to explore the proposal and determine if its a good fit for them in terms of risk, reward, resources and so on. A feasibility report in project management is a detailed analysis that evaluates the practicality, risks and potential success of a proposed project before committing significant resources.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

If you are managing a product, you need to be clear about what drives value and what doesnt. BAU (Business-as-Usual) workbug fixes, maintenance, and tech debtis a silent killer of product innovation. The best product teams dont just balance BAU and innovationthey use BAU to accelerate innovation. Heres how: 1.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 8, 2024

An effective Sprint Retrospective ensures the team remains cohesive and aligned, leading to sustainable development and innovation. Risk Management: By regularly examining past actions and outcomes, teams can proactively identify potential risks and devise mitigation strategies. © 2024 wowefy.com

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2025

Another was to start with a lighter touch intervention at the portfolio level by visualizing, understanding, and managing flow at the portfolio level, to see and begin breaking the waterfall. Are Your Traditional Portfolio Processes Inhibiting Innovation and Agility? Teams operate in silos, unable to adapt or innovate.

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Inloox

DECEMBER 4, 2024

I have interviewed our own project management specialists, Dr. Andreas Tremel and Dr. Tiziano Panico to get them to share their wisdom on what matters in project management in 2025. Companies that fail to bring innovative products and services to market in short release cycles are not truly agile.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

It's no longer innovative, exciting, worthy of keynote talks or passionate meetups. Agile is no longer innovative as it was when the Manifesto was established. I manage the jira board. I create reports needed by the management team. I highlight the dependencies and risks at Scrum of Scrums.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 10, 2024

LaVerne Johnson Founder, President, and CEO A look back at the history, impact, and evolution of International Project Management Day, and what lies ahead for the profession. What is IPM Day and Why It Matters The International Project Management Day (IPM Day) is our way of giving back.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The goal of a SM is to grow the teams to thrive, innovate, and deliver exceptional products. They may have job titles like Team Lead, Delivery Manager, Agile Coach, Developer, or even Engineering Manager. This commitment allows for a more profound impact on team innovation and product success.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Mastering Scrum is a journey towards collaboration, continuous improvement, and self-managing teams. This approach improves overall product quality and empowers the team to self-manage themselves, promoting a sense of ownership and accountability crucial for leadership. This article was first published in the AskScrum.com newsletter.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 2, 2024

As more executives shift from projects to product management, how do your product managers (i.e., product owners) shift from collecting and managing requirements for delivery to a mechanism for introducing, growing, maturing and then eventually retiring a product?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 9, 2025

TL;DR: The Alignment-to-Value Pipeline Effective product development requires both strategic alignment and healthy Product Backlog management. Success depends on trust, collaboration, risk navigation, and focusing on outcomes over outputs. Misalignment leads to backlog bloat, trust erosion, and building the wrong products.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

From hiring choices to project planning and team dynamics, these biases, deeply ingrained through culture, experience, and cognitive shortcuts, can impact fairness, efficiency, and innovation. Lets explore how unconscious bias shows up in projects, the risks it poses, and what we can actually do it about so you can mitigate its effects.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A succeeding Scrum Master helps the team move towards reliable delivery of quality, valuable increments while improving the overall environment’s health and fostering collaboration and self-management. It's about cultivating an ecosystem where innovation, collaboration, and resilience are valued.

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Binfire

JANUARY 13, 2025

The digital age has brought tremendous advantages to businesses, particularly in project management. As businesses adopt cloud-based project management platforms, understanding how these services safeguard data is crucial. Also, cloud providers have an appreciation of the issues at risk.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If you’re a manufacturer, you need to know about supplier relationship management (SRM). That’s why managing your relationships with suppliers and vendors is critical to keeping a manufacturing enterprise viable. What Is Supplier Relationship Management? SRM is used by professionals involved in managing supply chains.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 31, 2024

The most commonly used planning constraint method in project management was historically the “triple constraint” – time, cost and scope – sometimes known as the project management triangle or the “iron triangle” because it’s often shown as a triangle with the constraints at each vertex. What is the Triple Constraint?

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2024

By Rick Lemieux – Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of the DVMS Institute October 16, 2024 Cyber risk and resilience have emerged as critical considerations for individuals and organizations. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is a voluntary framework that helps organizations manage cybersecurity risks.

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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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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By Jorgelina Bross-Puglisi February 28, 2024 Project Managers Have One Key Goal: Project Success By integrating risk management into project management processes, project managers can anticipate and respond to potential challenges, increasing the likelihood of project success. So why not ask AI to give us a hand?

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Know the risks in your project! Risk management plays an enormously important role in project management. The task here is to identify, analyze, control and ultimately minimize risks. The better risk management is handled in your project, the greater the probability of success, all other things being equal.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Then there are your stakeholders whose expectations must be managed. Project reports are tools that project managers use to extract valuable project data. Using Excel Report Templates for Project Management. Excel Report Templates for Project Management. That’s where Excel report templates come in. Learn more.

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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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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

How organizations are structured, managed, and governed will be increasingly like that of digital natives. Self-Managing Teams— Self-managing, empowered teams are the engine of product delivery. This will also increase the organization's willingness to accept mistakes within defined, bound risk parameters.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2025

This mindset enables fast pivots, minimising the risk and maximising openings. Encouraging diverse perspectives to help foster innovations. These empowered teams are more engaged and innovative and will possess better problem-solving abilitiesall things that every start-up needs to be set up for scale.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

All of these things and more make them a perfect candidate for business project management. Let’s first explore the definition of business project management. Then, we’ll look at the role of a business project manager and the types of projects that a business will manage. What Is Business Project Management?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 23, 2024

In the rapidly evolving business landscape, the shift from intuition-based decision-making to innovation-driven leadership is not just beneficial—it's essential. Evidence-Based Management: The Game Changer EBM harnesses the power of data, research, and factual evidence to guide decision-making processes.

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