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Everyday Agile Practices

The IIL Blog

Story Sizing We use story points to estimate work size and complexity instead of hours. Relative sizing tools, like t-shirt sizing, are generally reasonable and more accurate than duration estimates. Story points are used to estimate each backlog item’s size and the team’s velocity. Then the family estimates its capacity.

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Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

The underlying assumption that the work is well-defined, and the required effort can be easily estimated is a shortcoming of these approaches. Work packages are small enough to be estimated and assigned. MKS creates a roadmap depicting major milestones and deliverables with their estimated completion dates.

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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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Busy, But Not Productive

International Institute for Learning

Despite our rudimentary technology, we were (in my estimate) at least as productive and less stressed out than most people are today. In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile. Founding Principal. Project Management Essentials.

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The PMI Talent Triangle: A Guide [for members and non-members]

Online PM Courses

Take a look at our reviews of the last three ( 2016 , 2017 , 2018 ). The PMI Talent Triangle defines three areas for continuing education for holders of all PMI certifications. We’ll see what the PMI includes in them, and how they are important for project managers, whether you are a certificated PMI member or not.

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Episode 185 – Redefining Project Success through Sustainable Project Management

Velociteach

And we offer tools and methods, certification for people, our most popular being the GPM-b , and also our organizational sustainability assessment model and other tools. So this is back in like 2016 or so. Each side of the pyramid is 767 ft long, it’s as tall as a 40 story building, and it has an estimated 2.5