The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

These new projects are strategic in nature, such as innovation, research & development, new product development and strategic planning initiatives. Many of the traditional project management processes, tools, and techniques used in operational projects do not apply to strategic or innovation projects. Project Management (PM) 4.0

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2025

Instead of locking them into long-term strategies, agile leaders tend to follow that iterative approach, reflected in the key points of the iterative practice: Test ideas through MVPs. Adapt strategies based on real-world insights. This mindset enables fast pivots, minimising the risk and maximising openings.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 10, 2024

IPM Day is not only a day of recognition, but also a day of learning, networking, and innovation for project managers, teams, and executives around the globe. They have shown passion, innovation, and resilience in dealing with the huge challenges of the pandemic and the recession in recent years.

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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

MARCH 9, 2025

Success depends on trust, collaboration, risk navigation, and focusing on outcomes over outputs. For established products: Product Strategy Canvas and GO Product Roadmap. Embrace Slack Time: Request 20% of unplanned capacity to enable adaptation to operational challenges and innovation.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There is a need for collaboration, innovation and competitive advantage to make supplier relationship management work. Sometimes, these are the suppliers you spend more with, but they can also be smaller, yet critical suppliers who can help deliver innovation. Create a Supplier Management Strategy. Supplier Segmentation.

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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 Leadership: Steering Toward Innovation EBM-based leadership takes this concept further by integrating evidence into the leadership ethos itself.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2021

This gives the Product Backlog a level of transparency that reduces the risk. The risk is exposed by not completing an item within a Sprint and thus giving away the opportunity to generate value for the organization. 5 Strategies for Product Backlog refinement. Further breakdown strategies can be found here.

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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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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A Scrum Master skilled in understanding risk and uncertainties ensures that the team is not caught off-guard by challenges but is prepared and resilient, capable of navigating uncertainties confidently and quickly. It's about cultivating an ecosystem where innovation, collaboration, and resilience are valued.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Unsurprisingly, the most successful, innovative organizations have excellent teams with a clear line of sight to the problems they are solving. By enabling product teams to deliver frequently and learn, organizations create an environment where innovation grows as the knowledge of the user and problem comes into focus.

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The IIL Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

By Rick Lemieux – Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of the DVMS Institute August 21, 2024 Organizations unveil grand strategies and meticulously crafted blueprints for success. Yet, amidst the fanfare of vision statements and market analyses, Peter Drucker’s timeless adage whispers a crucial truth: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

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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. Although some risks can be eliminated with a suitable solution strategy, certain risks can never be completely avoided in the project context.

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Binfire

JANUARY 13, 2025

The Importance of Data Security in Project Management Project management platforms contain a firms sensitive information, which includes business strategies, clients data, and project communications. Huge risks are at stake; project-specific losses and the firms reputation and financial status could be compromised in a data breach.

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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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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The need for a business case is that it collects the proposal, outline, strategy and marketing plan in one document and offers a full look at how the project will benefit the organization. Compile the data and present your strategies, goals and options. Marketing strategy. Don’t forget to include a risk management plan.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 30, 2022

One of their duties is to come up with strategies that realize the defined program objectives. Identify and mitigate issues and risks. Innovation is also important. Seeking an innovative, organized, strategic-minded and dependable program director. Identify and mitigate program risks. Create and manage budgets.

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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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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Identify potential risks and plan strategies to mitigate them effectively. The Experimenter Stance Experimentation promotes innovation and learning. The Influencer Stance Influence shapes product strategy and direction.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

While businesses run projects, they also have strategies and objectives that must be met. Business project management is the process by which internal business projects are streamlined and aligned with business strategies and objectives. We haven’t talked much about risk management. What Is Business Project Management?

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These top 25 influencers for 2025 aren’t just keeping up with the trends—they’re setting them, reshaping how teams collaborate, innovate, and deliver in today’s fast-paced world. Practical Expertise: Their advice is grounded in real-world experience, offering strategies proven effective in diverse project environments.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 31, 2024

Factors such as risks , resources (human and otherwise), expectations or even R&D or technology issues for ground-breaking tech projects can be considered as constraints. The 6 project constraints are time, cost, scope (as per the triangle) and then quality, risk and resources. Going live with innovative new solutions?

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

This time we will discuss how to build an effective stakeholder communication strategy. What Is Stakeholder Communication Strategy A communication strategy is our plan that outlines how we will communicate. Before we build a communication strategy, we need to understand What information do stakeholders need from us?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 30, 2025

Drawing parallels to the Y2K crisiswhere preparation, not panic, averted disasteradopting GenAI today represents a low-cost, high-upside strategy for agile professionals. The DellAcqua study demonstrates that AI-enabled individuals matched the performance of human teams in innovation tasks. If not, the cost of learning is negligible.

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Project Accelerator News

JULY 15, 2024

It involves coordinating resources, managing stakeholders, and mitigating risks to achieve defined objectives. Diversity in project management brings a wealth of perspectives, ideas, and approaches that enhance problem-solving and innovation. Women are often highly adaptable, able to pivot and adjust strategies on the fly.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

These offices are enablers to successful delivery of strategy and in many organisations are a rich source of structured and unstructured intelligence. The right parameters for quality and cleanliness of the data and the bias risk mitigation must be encoded from the beginning.

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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. In addition, problems with equipment may cause additional risks related to workers’ safety and product quality.

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Scrum.org

JULY 30, 2023

Now, they must discover innovative ways to deliver enhanced value to customers while differentiating themselves from competitors. That means taking calculated risks that can lead to either success or failure. The post-COVID business landscape is pushing companies to strategically position themselves and seek new opportunities.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

For example, each phase has no definitive timeline, its own risks, costs and opportunities. You’ll define and refine your product concept, test it and start to develop a launch strategy. This is a costly phase with no income, the risk is high and outside funding might be limited. Market Development. Market Introduction.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Understanding the Accidental Project Manager The world of project management is vast and diverse, with professionals often undertaking specific training and certification processes to hone their skills and strategies. This flexibility can be particularly valuable in fast-paced or innovative environments where adaptability is key.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

This is a guide to exploring key strategies for growing your project management career throughout the year. Professionals are carving niche areas within project management, such as risk management or change management. Registration for IIL’s Leadership & Innovation Online Conference is open!

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The Strategic Project Manager

JULY 15, 2024

How can organizations follow a dual strategy when business is going well but change is inevitable? Keep the existing business going…but use the Hierarchy of Powers to implement a parallel strategy to position for success in a new future. These internal capabilities enable the company to execute its strategy effectively.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Risk: The third factor is Risk. A risk may further be classified as technical, functional and even reputational. Strategic Alignment: How well a work item aligns with the organization's overall strategy and long-term goals. This technique is from Innovation Games by Luke Hohmann. Instead, I do a variation.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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. When employees are empowered to make decisions, innovation can happen faster through idea-sharing and execution. Have you had success using bottom-up approaches to planning?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Identifying and Managing Project Risk (4 th Ed) Author: Tom Kendrick. Identifying and Managing Project Risk is a big read at over 300 pages. There are some sections in it that cover enterprise risk management which you could justifiably claim in the Business Acumen section. PDU claim: 8 hours. PDU claim: 2 hours.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Your project plan has to align to a larger strategy. That strategy is outlined in an action plan. Subjects include, but are not limited to, project management software, scheduling, risk and task management, collaboration, time tracking, Gantt charts, reporting and, of course, planning. Here are a few that can be helpful.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 31, 2023

That happens naturally when there is a lot of brainstorming and sharing innovative ideas. With the entire team contributing unique ideas, you can acquire more effective strategies for completing the project. Teamwork encourages risk-taking Working as a team encourages risk-taking.

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