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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

Plus, we’ll get into scrumban, a combination of kanban with scrum. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has powerful kanban features that can estimate project costs and track resource allocation. Scrumban is an agile project management methodology that combines scrum and kanban.

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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If they have any supporting materials (like quotes or estimates for the work that needs to be done) that might help the analysis, ask for those too. Example of scope creep in Scrum. Scope creep in Scrum would happen when more user stories or backlog items are added to a sprint. What is the opposite of scope creep? Larson, R. &

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Don't hear one?

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Agile forecasting techniques for the next decade

Scrum.org

These new forecasting techniques are not based on estimations but historical data, thus saving time on the part of developers to focus on what they do best. When I have a Agile planning/forecasting conversation at work, I’ve fallen back more than once on the Agile planning onion proposed by Mike Cohn back in 2009.

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The Growth of Value-Driven Project Management

International Institute for Learning

In 2009, IIL sponsored a global webinar entitled “Value-Driven Project Management”, where we discussed IIL’s predictions on what the future of project management might look like. There was often highly optimistic or unrealistic estimates of benefits and value made to get the project approval accompanied by a high priority.

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Process Reduces Agility? Only on De Minimis Projects

Herding Cats

Scrum, Kanban, even eXtreme Programming are used, guided by higher level directives like the National Defense Authorization Act Section 804 which says. When managing any project as Risk Managers as Tim Lister suggested, we need to make estimates in the presence of these uncertainties as well.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Deciding how much precision and accuracy is needed for a credible estimate is critical to the success of that decision.

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