Kiron Bondale
APRIL 3, 2022
If you ever find yourself wanting to inject some energy into a cross-functional gathering of delivery staff and stakeholders, ask for their opinion on estimates. Relative sizing – this covered such techniques as story pointing, T-shirt sizing, affinity estimating and others.
Leading Answers
AUGUST 25, 2020
Project managers generally like plans and estimates so we can forecast when things should be done and how much they may cost. " So, when project managers hear about ideas such as "let's stop estimating," it can trigger a knee-jerk reaction. It sounds lazy and avoiding the hard work of having to estimate.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 27, 2022
In 2012, Helen Mason stood outside her home and looked at the road. The project estimating techniques you use also help Helen’s team work out how busy a night they are going to have. Every day there were more frogs and toads that hadn’t made it to the other side. So she set up a project to do something about it. The frog-saving team.
LiquidPlanner
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
an estimate of three or more on the scale mentioned in No. Estimation. Once you’ve determined what you’ll do to address each risk, estimate how much it will cost you to do so. Focus your attention on those risks that have the highest potential impact and likelihood of happening (i.e., Assign owners.
Leading Answers
JANUARY 16, 2021
While profit is not their goal, usually an economic impact figure can be estimated for the outcomes they aim to achieve. Then, in 2012 I presented a collection of Collaborative Games for Risk Management at the Agile 2012 Conference in Dallas and PMI Global Congress in Vancouver. After
Rebel’s Guide to PM
DECEMBER 16, 2016
Our software tools are full of data from the risks we log to the estimates we fail to achieve. You can’t hold information in your head about how accurate each individual team member has been in estimating their workload on this project and the last five projects they have worked on. Blended Methodology. Are you waterfall or Agile?
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 5, 2018
The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? The difficulty of accurate size estimation is compounded especially at the time of inception when very little information is available.
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