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Everyday Agile Practices

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker Agile seems like a mystery to many. However, when we step back and inspect agile, we see that it follows common, recognizable patterns from our daily lives. Let’s explore how agile practices can be applied to this common predicament. It has an unfamiliar vocabulary and practices. Imagine it is Thursday evening.

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Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker The Milestone-Kanban Schedule (MKS) is a hybrid project scheduling and management technique that combines traditional and agile best practices. The underlying assumption that the work is well-defined, and the required effort can be easily estimated is a shortcoming of these approaches.

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Myth: Velocity is Productivity

Scrum.org

We are going towards the "Agile" Transformation. A company known for developing “Agile” products surveyed more 18,000 customers and Software development professionals, which is what they discovered. . 77% practice Agile Development. Atlassian Survey,2016. 77% practice Agile Development. Atlassian Survey,2016.

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Project Management and Artificial Intelligence: Bring It On!

The IIL Blog

Gartner estimated that AI may replace 80% of project management activities by 2030. In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile. He also holds multiple Agile certifications from Disciplined Agile, Scrum Alliance, and Scaled Agile.

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Improve Your Project Schedule

International Institute for Learning

Work packages are small deliverables that are assignable and estimable. Estimate the time needed to execute each task. It is possible to estimate each task’s resource needs and effort. Traditional tools allow us to model task interdependencies and estimate the critical path. Decompose the scope into work packages.

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How To Be An Estimating Superhero

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A statistical model for estimating isn’t normally something I’d put in the ‘make my job easy’ box, but I might just have found one that works. He’s taken the PERT (Project Evaluation and Review Technique) estimating approach to the next level by letting you add a dash of professional judgement in with the numbers. OK, I get it.

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Software Review: Roadmap Planner [2017]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I don’t think it’s meant to be used in the same way as a backlog in Agile methods, but it’s certainly useful to be able to record everything you were thinking when you created that roadmap item. Software review: Simplestimate [2016] Find out more about how to make estimating simple with this software review of Simplestimate.