Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. It’s about creating business outcomes.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. There are not specific to Agile Software Development. Agile teams, for the most part, are a fixed set of resources, so the spending plan is essentially Flat. Again, this is the basis of Managerial Finance. But here's how they are connected.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 18, 2017

There is a posted question at an agile conference. Can you make a decision without an estimate? Like many discussions in the domain of agile, the statement is made without any evidence that it is true, nor can even be true in principle. Don't assume, Estimate. This type of fallacy is common. . First a principle.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? What would be the evidence that we could make decisions in the presence of uncertanty without estimating the impacts and outcomes of those decisions? . Start here.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, the digital transformation market was estimated at a whopping $731.1 By the end of the planning phase, you’ll have a detailed project and risk management plan and establish a governance structure between you, your team, and your sponsor. In the agile world, you’ll start your daily standups and complete your first sprints.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

There's a popular notion going around the agile community that says. This, of course, is a violation of the principles of Managerial Finance and Microeconomics of software development in the presence of uncertainty and scarce resources. Software Project Cost Estimation . we focus on Value and don't need to worry about Cost.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

SAs an early user (as a FORTRAN 77 developer on Software Intensive System of Systems for Ballistic Missle Defense systems), the principles of Iterative and incremental development, emergent requirements, customer in the loop , and other principles, practices, and processes found in Agile started long before the Agile Manifesto.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

But Agile at Scale has a different paradigm than Agile at the Table. This is the basis of managerial finance and decision making in the presence of uncertainty - Microeconomics of Decision Making. The owners of this governance process has the decision rights to determine what gets released. . What is a Team?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For example, project management doesn’t have a specific method that we all use for document filing, different to, say, the way marketing or finance do document filing. Not something you’ll use on every project but your business might routinely need to use EVA if, for example, you do government contract work in the US. That’s all it is.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Software Review Risk Management 440

Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Tailoring traditional (predictive) and agile tools and methods. Here, they list their examples of technical project management expertise: Agile practices. Governance (project, program, portfolio). Time, budget, and cost estimation. Agile Project Management training corses. finance, marketing). Issue Logs.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2018

Five Different Decision-Making Strategies That Don't Need Estimates. How can you know what is strategic without estimating the strategic value to those paying? How can you know what is strategic without estimating the strategic value to those paying? No Estimate needed. This is from a #Noestimates presentation.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This is a good starting point for answering the mail on the notion that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impact of those decisions. Estimates are for the business, why would the business no longer want an estimate of cost, schedule, or technical performance of the provided capabilities?

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

in sustainable development and environment, and he has over 25 years of experience in various areas of project management including government, finance, consulting, manufacturing, and education. He goes, “Well, I’m a project manager, but I work in agile. It’s estimated by 2050 it’ll be over 50%. He holds a Ph.D.

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Sustainability Underperforming Technical Team Construction Certification 99

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Every once in awhile a reasonably intelligent No Estimates advocate shows up in a Twitter discussion. They often say you should be open-minded and try the concepts of No Estimates first. . A Pseudo-Open Minded person would say Sasquatch exists because the Federal Government is suppressing the evidence.

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Estimate Software Review Finance Closing 48

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Agile in name only. scrum, not agile. There's a recent paper " What Lessons Can the Agile Community Learn from A Maverick Fighter Pilot? " In our Software Intensive System of Systems domain, this is the definition of Agile we use from the now-Secretary of Defense Dr. Carter. not as it was prior to scrum. Boyds papers.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2019

But greater flexibility generally requires a more skillful approach to governance and project management. An important business agility principle is that context counts. Next, decide how the team will go about accessing the funds being provided to them (this is usually chosen by your organization’s finance group).

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 242

Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. The No Estimates advocates have a similar set of behaviors.).

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Kiron Bondale

JUNE 16, 2018

In one of my previous articles I’d written about the need for change across multiple areas of an organization when undertaking an agile transformation. A key enterprise partner is the Finance department and the organization’s model for project funding will have significant influence over successful agile delivery.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. The No Estimates advocates have a similar set of behaviors.).

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 11, 2023

They are the owner, who is the one commissioning the work and funds or finances it; the architect or engineer, who is responsible for the design of the project; and the general contractor, who is the person overseeing the day-to-day operations of the project as well as managing the subcontractors. Construction Estimate.

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Planio

JANUARY 16, 2023

Lay your cards out by creating a solid governance structure. Plan in an Agile way. Agile templates. Then, break down the work required to achieve your scope and objectives, and use project estimating techniques to work out how long those tasks will take you. Lay your cards out by creating a solid governance structure.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Estimation of Long?Term (Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ? reducible and irreducible ?

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. requires making estimates) ? Estimation of Long?Term These papers and other resources were retrieved from public sites. reducible and irreducible ? Emmons, Thomas A.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies 8. During this phase, there’s a lot of box-ticking and governance to ensure everyone understands their ongoing requirements.

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Development Team Review 2030 Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 78

Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

But there’s little your project sponsor, your client, or their Finance Director care about more than your budget and how closely you can stick to it. Your ‘Project Cost Management Plan’ Establishing your costs – the processes of estimating and budgeting. The governance considerations for project cost management.

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Planio

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Do Agile teams need project plans? How will the project manage finances? Then, use the 3-point estimating technique to estimate how long each one will take. They work through creating a WBS before estimating and mapping the work to create a schedule.”. Consider the project risks and how you’ll mitigate them.

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Planning Risk Management Software Review Defining 78

Herding Cats

MAY 12, 2018

This quote is typically the basis of proposing agile software development over traditional software development. But if the development work is a Project is a fixed period of performance, for a fixed (with margin) budget, and a fixed set of Capabilities, then the question is can agile be used to develop the software?

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Digite

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

It is being applied to help in the improvement of performance of Government agencies, in their service levels and accountability and develop solutions focused on the well-being of Citizens. IBM estimates that by 2025, data-based decision making tools market will be $2 trillion. Applications of AI in Real World.

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Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team 2020 2025 141

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The conjecture that we can make decisions in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impacts of those decisions is without any principles that can be tested beyond personal anecdotes of I know people who spend other peoples money without providing estimates. We need to learn how to predict with credible methods.

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Estimate Risk Management Finance Software Developers 39

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. Or the companion quote from an Agile thought leader. maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help. Even with clear requirements?—?and

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. We use Vitech's Core.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 26, 2016

When Agile development moves beyond a single scrum team and into the Enterprise IT domain, several considerations must be addressed. For Scrum (or most other agile methods) focus on the team is paramount. Governance is about decision rights. PM Chapter on Agile IT Project Management Methods from Glen Alleman. .

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Scoro

MAY 13, 2022

It’s now a CloudBlue PSA that integrates all sales, finances and operations in a single system. BigTime offers time tracking, project management and billing that can be customised for firms in accounting, consulting, architecture, government contracting, engineering and law firms. Invoicing and finances. CRM System.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The PMO is to a project management team what the SEC is to Wall Street; it provides the framework and organizational standards for managing and executing the projects under its governance. . Works closely with stakeholders to develop and apply projects’ governance framework . The PMO head: . Manages the PMO team .

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