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Software Review: ProjectManager.com [2016]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You can also set it as a recurring expense (like payment to a contractor, or a monthly subscription) and forget about it. Let’s face it, most of us can talk faster than we can type. You'll also like: Software Review: Project Viewer for Primavera [2016] This article was updated with minor amends on 27 March 2016.

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Everyday Agile Practices

The IIL Blog

Not over-planning saves effort and lets us adjust more quickly. Feature stories are intended to generate a conversation about the best solution. Story Sizing We use story points to estimate work size and complexity instead of hours. Story points are used to estimate each backlog item’s size and the team’s velocity.

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Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

Traditional project management techniques use work breakdown structures (WBS), Gantt charts, and the critical path method to create the schedule. The underlying assumption that the work is well-defined, and the required effort can be easily estimated is a shortcoming of these approaches.

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Software Review: Roadmap Planner [2017]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

While the company is based in the US, the marketing copy on their website reads as if it hasn’t been written by a native English speaker. This is where you can add notes, projects or tasks to part of the roadmap so that you don’t forget what that element of your strategy was supposed to be about. Easy to Get Started.

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How To Be An Estimating Superhero

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A statistical model for estimating isn’t normally something I’d put in the ‘make my job easy’ box, but I might just have found one that works. He’s taken the PERT (Project Evaluation and Review Technique) estimating approach to the next level by letting you add a dash of professional judgement in with the numbers. OK, I get it.

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Improve Your Project Schedule

International Institute for Learning

Even with these powerful tools, only about half of all projects are completed on time, as reported in the PMI Pulse of the Profession.® Work packages are small deliverables that are assignable and estimable. Estimate the time needed to execute each task. It is possible to estimate each task’s resource needs and effort.

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Software Review: Roadmap Planner [2017]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

While the company is based in the US, the marketing copy on their website reads as if it hasn’t been written by a native English speaker. This is where you can add notes, projects or tasks to part of the roadmap so that you don’t forget what that element of your strategy was supposed to be about. Easy to Get Started.