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2017 Project Management Trends To Watch

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Our software tools are full of data from the risks we log to the estimates we fail to achieve. You can’t hold information in your head about how accurate each individual team member has been in estimating their workload on this project and the last five projects they have worked on. Blended Methodology. Are you waterfall or Agile?

2017 150
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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.

2003 46
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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

requires making estimates) ? 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. Claude Bocquet, Reliability Engineering and System Safety , 2012.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

requires making estimates) ? 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. Claude Bocquet, Reliability Engineering and System Safety , 2012.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

Scrum.org

Their paper provides useful insights into why the Scrum Framework might be so effective when it comes to managing complex work. Their article inspired me to apply the same insights to Scrum and to extend it with my own. This will affect all estimates and predictions. This will affect all estimates and predictions.

2002 199
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The Trouble with Charts

Herding Cats

The other statistical issue is the chart showing #Noestimates versus other types of estimates. The Performance Index of #Noestimates in the chart above shows differences from Scrum and Lightweight Scrum. Maybe 11 to 12 for No Estimates and maybe some less than 15 for Light Weight Scrum, say 13. .

2006 37
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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

Scrum.org

See how approaches like the Scrum Framework and Liberating Structures can prevent some of these biases by bringing in diverse voices and by validating your assumptions against reality. For me personally, it's one of the reasons why I like the Scrum Framework , as it gives guide-rails to help us think and validate our assumptions with data.

2015 219