Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

Likewise, there are defined, repeatable IT projects that can (and have been) successfully managed using meticulous planning, detailed estimation, and formal change control procedures. Here, formal planning and estimation are difficult because we don’t know what we will encounter. Consider the process of designing a new car or home.

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nTask

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Correctly estimating lead time also helps eliminate these dependencies. You May Also Like: A 2021 Guide to Kanban Cadences to help Align Your Business Communication. Example of Lead Time in Inventory Management. Let’s now look at an example of how optimizing lead time can help with inventory management.

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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

You don’t have to spend time crafting documentation or process guidelines as you can lean on existing frameworks. Without resource management tools that let you allocate your budget accordingly, you could easily exceed your initial estimate.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deloyed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. On the one hand, the delivery team is not able to precisely estimate when it can deliver a release. It is really based on their own cost of deploying a new release from a vendor.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Dave is a Principal Consultant at Depth Consulting Ltd, and Program Director of the KCP Program at the Lean Kanban University. In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. Many (most?)

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Suitable frameworks and practices for this kind of product discovery process are, for example, Lean Startup, Lean UX, Design Thinking, Design Sprints, or the Business Model Canvas. Roadmap planning is—like Product Backlog refinement—a continuous effort, just at an extended cadence.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deployed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. On the one hand, the delivery team is not able to precisely estimate when it can deliver a release. It is really based on their own cost of deploying a new release from a vendor.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

Too much estimating: The Developers even estimate sub-tasks. Remember: the purpose of estimating is to identify misalignment among the Developers regarding the What and How of items from the Product or Sprint Backlog. Read more : Estimates Are Useful, Just Ditch the Numbers.). (I So don’t waste your time on that.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Without a regular cadence of delivery of working software any belief that you will get a usable increment is misguided at best. Much like the lean movement in manufacturing, companies that embraced it wholeheartedly were the ones that ultimately see the competitive edge that it provides. Release planning and predictable delivery.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

Scrum teams at the bottom, some sort of orchestration mechanism, the product middle tier, some sort of orchestration mechanism up at the portfolio tier, some linkage to investment tier investment strategy, focusing on the flow of value at each level, understanding lean principles. I think SAFE is fine. Is there a product owner?

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. Learn from their mistakes and lean on them for insights. Find the right meeting cadence for you and your team. But there’s a problem.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

They hypothesized that estimating the cards and doing burn-down charts would increase throughput. That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. Total chaos.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

We typically want to have those stories estimated, right? And as Agilists, we approach it with like a very lean startup mindset and we go, this is Agile, you don’t get predictability, right? Maybe we’re great at doing user stories and estimation and kind of release planning level stuff.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2018

Let’s say that on average stakeholders request a couple of large items, a couple of medium-sized ones, and five small ones in any given cadence, iteration, release, or whatever unit of time your organization uses for such matters. In a typical cadence, stakeholders ask you to complete 12.5 things, and you agree.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

That epic then moves across to portfolio prioritization, based on a high-level estimate and all the other things that are in the pipeline, and our current capacity, is this the next most important thing to start breaking down for the organization? And we understand the problem?

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

They maybe estimate them using new story points, planning, poker, they burn them down, they produce a working test and increment of software at the end of every sprint. And they’re like, the product person is like, we need to be doing Lean Startup. What are they even going to do with a lean startup mental model?

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

High WIP levels and failure to recognize delivery capacity, identify scarce resources, and consider estimates led to intense pressure to deliver late in the project schedule. With Basecamp One as a foundation, the organization can begin to incorporate further agile and lean ideas and grow toward greater business agility.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

In addition to that, as well as the PMI standards plus to lead the way for the immediate processes, the techniques when it comes to things like estimating or requirements management and things along those lines. Definitely, there has to be the communications planning involved with that as well to more of a lean and effective type of method.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. A Lean-style value stream analysis could reveal the cost of business as usual is much higher than expected. The company wanted to automate their dispatching process.

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