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How to Manage Fixed Date Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Work out the end date ignoring the fixed delivery date, even if you do have to crash your analysis time into a shorter period and use estimates with a greater degree of uncertainty than normal. Backing in is when you start at the end of the project and work your way backwards calculating task estimates until you reach today.

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How We Made Our Customer The Product Owner

Scrum.org

From 2010–2015 I worked as a Scrum Master for a web agency. Estimate the Product Backlog together. At the end of the session, we would make a rough estimation: “With the knowledge, we have at this point in time, we think it will take us somewhere between 5–7 Sprints”. However, the customer really owned the product budget.

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Strategic Project Portfolio Management [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Estimating For Success. Maybe best of all, Moore talks about range-based estimates – a topic I’m very interested in. Moore explains that estimates are biased towards the initial values because people don’t adjust their estimates again after making that initial decision.

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How to Manage Your Creative Firm and Make a Profit

Function Point

A solid traffic system; a traffic facilitator; precision job scheduling; a time recording process; collaboration diaries; POs, estimates and ownership; in house and freelance staff; and aligned vendors. According to Second Wind ( secondwindonline.com ) there are eight must haves in a creative agency workflow.

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Resources for Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Some feel that the cone does not provide any value for the work they do and does not match the reducing uncertainty in their estimates. First, the Cone of Uncertainty is a Principle used to define the needed reduction in the variances of estimates on Programs. That is an Immutable Principle of good project management.

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Risk Management is Project Management for Adults

Herding Cats

Risk-Informed Decision Making, NASA/SP-2010-576. You cannot manage in the presence of uncertainty without making estimates (start with the materials above and do your own research). . Both types of uncertainty and the resulting risk require us to make estimates. Be an adult, learn to estimating is needed to manage risk.

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Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. All project work operates in the presence of uncertainty.

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