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Which estimation methods are favored for adaptive delivery?

Kiron Bondale

If you ever find yourself wanting to inject some energy into a cross-functional gathering of delivery staff and stakeholders, ask for their opinion on estimates. Relative sizing – this covered such techniques as story pointing, T-shirt sizing, affinity estimating and others.

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What is Level of Effort (LOE)? Plus, 5 Tips for Effort Estimation

ProjectManager.com

Depending on the scope and size of the project, the level of effort for stakeholder management activities will go up and down, and it is important to be aware of how much energy it will take. What Is Effort Estimation? In order to know a task’s LOE, you must practice something called effort estimation. Updating Reports.

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The Agile Hangover

Scrum.org

Now Scrum is not just a smart way of delivering software, it is a fundamental part of any enterprise agility transformation. . A pattern I would like to label ‘The Agile Hangover’. . First there comes the Agile party. Lots of passion, energy, and money were spent on the desire to improve. They are already agile.

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Agile Principles - Become More Effective

Scrum.org

This post continues my ongoing series revisiting the principles behind the Agile Manifesto. This time we are focussing on the following Agile principle – “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjust its behavior accordingly.” Pausing regularly to do this seems like common sense.

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Review Agile

Henny Portman

Agile by Rini van Solingen and Maarten Kossen was originally published in Dutch. The book starts with a warning that agile is more than a mindset, it is a philosophy, followed by 22 chapters, in which the authors show that it is easy to understand, but very difficult to apply at first. Scrum or agile?

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The Surprising Impact of Limiting Work in Progress on the Flow of Work in a Scrum Team

Scrum.org

Predictable Delivery and Agile Metrics In a Scrum environment, predictability is key. When a team dedicates their energy to a smaller number of tasks, they can estimate more accurately and meet deadlines more reliably. Moreover, the impact of limiting WIP is measurable through various agile metrics.

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Epic Fail - Why Product Backlog Refinement is Essential for Scrum Teams?

Scrum.org

Part 1 intends to focus on the Scrum Team, Part 2 will be released shortly after our Webinar on April 29th and will focus on the “Epic” challenges agile leaders are facing. Those are then sized or estimated in so-called story points that follow typically the Fibonacci sequence. In part 2 we will take the angle of agile leaders.