Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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.

Telecoms 476

Telecoms 2010 Estimate Prince2 476

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

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.

2003 46

2003 2014 2015 2011 46

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? 255, April 2010. 24, 2010. “A Estimation of Long?Term Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty … and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean,” Phil Beenhouwer, The Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA), May 17, 2006. reducible and irreducible ?

Risk Management 38

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

requires making estimates) ? 255, April 2010. 24, 2010. “A Estimation of Long?Term Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty … and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean,” Phil Beenhouwer, The Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA), May 17, 2006. reducible and irreducible ?

Risk Management 35

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

3% use PRINCE2. [4]. Between 2010 and 2020, 15.7 Business services (2 million jobs) and Manufacturing (630,000 jobs) supported the greatest number of project management roles in 2010. Business services and healthcare are expected to lead job growth between 2010 and 2020. [11]. Inadequate cost estimates – 29%.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

So a lot of times people are like, “Oh my gosh, I’m a waterfall guy or I’m an agile girl,” or, “Hey, listen, I’m a Prince2 person.” There is a lot, even if you look at PMI or you look at Prince2, there’s a lot that you go through in defining requirements, creating risk plans.

Agile 40

Agile Technical Review Lean Underperforming Technical Team 40