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Estimating Agile Projects.Or Not

Leading Answers

Project managers generally like plans and estimates so we can forecast when things should be done and how much they may cost. " So, when project managers hear about ideas such as "let's stop estimating," it can trigger a knee-jerk reaction. It sounds lazy and avoiding the hard work of having to estimate.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Organizations that use a methodology: 38% meet budget. VS. Organizations that don’t use a methodology: 31% meet budget. 18% — Delivered within budget. Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. 26% say effective team communication. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

This is simply good process development and management. Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. But each method needs to be based on 5 Immutable principles to be successful, no matter the domain or context, PMI Spring Seminar , 2012, Austin TX.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

This is simply good process development and business management. Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy, since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. And the practices are not connected to any principle.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. reducible and irreducible ? 255, April 2010.