By Erik Krisko, Enterprise Transformation Coach and Consultant I feel very fortunate to have the opportunity to present at this year’s 2018 Agile and Scrum Online Conference, hosted by the International Institute for Learning (IIL). In my session “From Freight Train to Airplane: The Automotive Transformation”, I discuss Enterprise Transformation efforts taking place to prepare
Read More...This past November as part of IIL’s IPM Day online conference, Dr. Harold Kerzner delivered a keynote on “How Changes in Project Management Are Supporting Agile and Scrum.“ The keynote discussed how, over the years, project management has undergone continuous improvement efforts by extracting best practices from other management practices such as Six Sigma. Now, the
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By Tom Friend – Agile Consultant / LtCol USAF (Ret) CSP, ACP, AHF, FLEX, CSM, PSM, ATP The 6th International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology, held in Alcala de Henares, Spain, brought together scientists, engineers, and researchers from NASA, the European Space Agency, universities and industry. Case studies on how agile methodologies have been
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By Lorian Lipton, PMP When dancing, if you start off on the wrong foot, you may never recover. Sadly, the same can happen if you pick the wrong lifecycle approach for your project. With the wrong approach, you run the risk of cost overruns, long delivery delays, and potentially a failed project. Luckily, there are
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By Jim Stewart PMP, CSM As mentioned in the previous article, Agile involves moving to a new way of working on projects; therefore, it brings its own set of issues that must be dealt with. Here are a few of the more common ones: Organizational Culture Organizations are typically top-down in nature, meaning there is a
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By: Jeff Nielsen, PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, CSM As an agile and project management instructor and practitioner, I am asked quite often, “Should I worry about this agile thing?” or “Why do I need to be agile?” Many project managers are seeing the trend towards agile by many companies and are worried they may not be ready
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By Jim Stewart, PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, CSM What pushes organizations to embrace Agile and what projects waterfall won’t serve. Organizations that run projects are increasingly looking at transforming the company toward using the Agile methodology. For one example, GE – who is heavily involved in the “Internet of Things” – is having not only developers but
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By Roy Schilling, CSM, CSPO, CSP, ACP and ICP-ACC. At one point in my career, I was a manager in a large financial organization. Being tired of missed deadlines and disappointed customers, I wanted a better way to deliver – faster, better, cheaper. I had been reading about Agile and how it had helped organizations with
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By Sofia Zafeiri, Social Media Coordinator at IIL A lot has been written and said over the past six years about the Agile methodology–from a tech methodology to the next best thing that quickly resolves challenges. The truth, however, has different sides to it depending on how your company chooses to implement Agile. Nevertheless, surveys and
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by Jim Stewart, PMP To begin, let’s differentiate large traditional organizations from tech startups by identifying some of their typical attributes. Large established organizations tend to be more risk-averse and have detailed processes in place. Usually, they apply the classic “waterfall” methodology to manage projects. While this method is well-understood, it involves very specific steps,
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