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Strategic Project Portfolio Management [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It covers the whole lifecycle from finding ideas for projects, through the prioritization process and planning for the most productive organization possible. Estimating for success Maybe best of all, Moore talks about range-based estimates – a topic I’m very interested in. This book review first appeared in 2016.

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Software Review: Vizzlo [2016]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is how the software review process normally goes for me. Vizzlo has over 75 template graphics for you to choose from, covering everything from Venn diagrams to milestone charts, timelines and process diagrams. Online and Windows [2016] Learn why iMindQ mindmapping software could be just the tool for your project team.

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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. Monitoring and reporting processes are complicated and become lagging indicators. Work packages are small enough to be estimated and assigned. Done are the items that are complete.

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Myth: Velocity is Productivity

Scrum.org

Atlassian Survey,2016. It’s an estimate of relative capacity that tends to change over time, and these changes don’t necessarily indicate a shift in productivity. In this case, putting artificial upwards pressure on velocity will only serve to distort estimates. . 77% practice Agile Development.

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Software Review: Roadmap Planner [2017]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Roadmap Planner creates a strategic plan aligned in swim lanes so you could adapt it for recording any process if you wanted. It is flexible, but I expect if you were doing a lot of process mapping you’d find other process mapping products specifically designed for that purpose would be more use. Read my complete review of.

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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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