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Time Estimation for Project Managers: Tips & Techniques

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The best a project manager can do is develop an accurate time estimate for how long it will take to satisfactorily complete the project. Time Estimation Matters. Looking into the future to determine how much time it will take complete project tasks allows for an estimation. They run from simple to the complex.

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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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The 18 Most Influential People in Project Management

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Bridges also is a highly influential YouTube personality who has created hundreds of videos on project management and leadership which have earned well over 10 million views since 2011. Pawel Brodzinski. Jon Terry .

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The Psychology of Forecasting Uncertainty

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LiquidPlanner can help take the guesswork out of forecasting, seamlessly processing the knock-on effects of revised estimates, resource-leveling across related dependent tasks, and mitigating the impact of uncertainty in the most efficient way possible. . Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. .

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So what’s in your company’s project management dictionary?

Kiron Bondale

Let’s consider a team’s degree of confidence in its estimates. A project funding policy might require that team submitting detailed estimates should have a confidence of ±5% but what does that really mean? Like everything else, operational definitions need to be established selectively.

2011 168
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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) , AACE Workshop, Denver, Colorado, April 16, 2011. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline , AACE Workshop , April 16, 2011. Earned Value + Agile = Success , National Defense Industry Association (NDIA) Conference, 4-6 April 2011, Baltimore, MD.

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How good are you at starting off your project?

Ron Rosenhead

It is called “Initiating successful projects” and was first published in December 2011. Scope is not clear and while initial capital costs are identified (often with over optimistic estimates) post project running costs are frequently ignored. I was surprised as I had not seen this report before.

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