Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The Agile Manifesto statement of “Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation” is less than helpful when it comes to writing contracts for projects to be worked in an Agile fashion. Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Today, we’re exploring what it looks like to transform the way your company finances itself in a new, agile world. Annual funding, long wait times for approvals, and all the read tape that goes along with that, aren’t as agile as the teams are. You still have ROI, you still have budget and actuals. So it’s very similar.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

46% of the organizations reported inconsistencies in practices and processes as their main challenge with agile transformation. Source: 15th State of Agile Report. There sure is an Agile framework called SAFe. SAFe is a scaling agile framework, so referring to it as just an agile framework may not be appropriate.

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The IIL Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

Below, AgileDad explains why you need accurate financial projections for your business and offers some advice on how to create them: Why Financial Projections Matter Financial projections are a realistic estimate of your business’s future financial revenue and expenses, short-term and long-term. They are based on existing accounting data.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 9, 2021

The good thing about configurable tools like Sciforma is that they allow you to tailor workflows to your existing processes. If you don’t have an existing process, or your process is rubbish, you can use the suggested templates. But if you already have a process that fits your team, you can simply replicate it in the tool.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 30, 2017

One of the 4 summary root causes of project performance failures is Unrealistic Cost and Schedule Estimates based on inadequate risk-adjusted growth models. If you have no uncertainty, then estimates provide no value. Be an adult, manage other people's money using a risk management process. This is how business works.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 8, 2017

It's popular to speak about the Agile Manifesto and the 12 Principles of Agile. When we hear that the next big thing in agile is Not Estimating, let's look to see how those 12 Principles can be applied without those estimates? . 12 Principles of Agile. How estimates help implement these principles.

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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. Maintain the Baseline with Repeatable Processes.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Ranging from traditional to agile and combinations in between. There is a discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. In all cases, we start our work with.

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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. These two points of view are the basis of any credible business management process.

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Planio

APRIL 8, 2024

Don’t fall into these traps In this guide, we’ll walk through the theory behind time blocking, illustrate the benefits, and give you a simple eight-step process to get started time blocking today. Here’s a simple process to help you get started time blocking today: 1. What is time blocking? Who should use it?

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Paul Boos has a post about estimating and makes a case for the Principles of when NOT to estimate. This struck a cord around a bigger topic - the inversion of estimating. When should we NOT estimate? Then on to the original conjecture for No Estimates from Paul's post. That is, to make decision with “No estimates”.

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Herding Cats

JULY 20, 2017

He doesn't know how - He doesn't understand how estimates fit into the process of business and managerial finance of product or service development. Those assigned to estimate do not relate to cost, schedules, or resources that drive the business and the decision made by the business by those estimates.

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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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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 10, 2019

With the popularity of Agile, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), and Scrum, organizations are asked to justify the project manager’s role on a project. I’ve had clients ask, “Why do we need project managers in the portfolio since we’re supposed to be Agile?”. However, don’t throw out the project management role just yet.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

By leveraging SOP templates, project teams can streamline their processes, reduce errors, and enhance overall project outcomes. This consistency is crucial for achieving quality, accuracy, and productivity in project processes. Consistency in project documentation and processes also fosters effective collaboration between team members.

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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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Project Pulse Journal

OCTOBER 7, 2023

A methodology that not only supports the identification of risks but quantifies them, thereby supporting a quantitative risk analysis process allowing for strategic decision-making. and ensures that efforts and finances are focused where they're most needed, at the time they are needed (PMI, 2023).

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2017

This seems to be a lament from agile developers. but one where Process is King since the money for or work comes from a sovereign. The notion that process and overhead are a waste is true in some sense. Too much process, too much overhead is a waste. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ranging from traditional to agile and combinations in between. Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. Paradigm of agile project management from Glen Alleman. . Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations.

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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

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 with examples of IT projects) IT project management is the process of planning, organizing, running, and managing information technology projects. In the agile world, you’ll start your daily standups and complete your first sprints.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A product manager can’t get bogged down in only process. According to healthaffairs.org , healthcare spending is estimated to account for a fifth of the U.S. Banking and finance is another traditional industry with ample room for supporting new product managers. UX Experience.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

Instead, we launch agile transformations, digital transformations and productization transformations. Can the average organization actually become a disruptive leader just by adopting the structures, tools and processes from the real disruptive leaders?   Agile Transformations. Transformations are flavor of the month.

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Productivity Land

JUNE 7, 2023

Additionally, effective tracking of milestones will help motivate team members and managers throughout the process. Smartsheet is a cloud-based software platform that helps small businesses manage their teams and finances. It includes features such as time tracking, project management, invoicing, and more.

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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. . Process is King.

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Epicflow Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

To be successful, you should keep a 20K foot view of the process while staying connected to the details. To reach this goal, you should be a driven person able to make the right prioritization in day-to-day processes. . You’ll learn how to identify and estimate risks and manage them. Pricing: Member: US$405.00.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

Instead, we launch agile transformations, digital transformations and productization transformations. Can the average organization actually become a disruptive leader just by adopting the structures, tools and processes from the real disruptive leaders?   Agile Transformations. Transformations are flavor of the month.

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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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TrustRadius Project Management

JANUARY 13, 2022

You may prefer a simple and intuitive interface, or software that is well suited to your development team’s agile workflow. 10 Users, Unlimited Projects, 2 GB Storage, No Customer Support Integration with DevOps Tools and Support for Agile Workflows Can be Complicated to Learn, Only Designed for DevOps Trello 8.4 Defining Features.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

James Shore wrote succinctly on this topic in The Art of Agile Development. Ryan is a Scrum Master currently working with Agile teams in a multi-national insurance enterprise. Of course, those misbehaviors are part of the training process, but they may be as mysterious and uncontrollable as Ms. Enter Ryan. Immediately.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 27, 2018

First let’s keep the concept of ROI basic, which is in this context: Applying this equation to a real-life example, if the cost for rolling out a SMILE activity = $10,000 and the estimated value of the program is $100,000 (considering quantitative and/or qualitative factors such as listed above): This number is not exaggerated.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Scrum is) more defined rather than empirical process. Agile in name only. scrum, not agile. There's a recent paper " What Lessons Can the Agile Community Learn from A Maverick Fighter Pilot? " How to Avoid the "Yesterday's Weather" Estimating Problem. I came across a couple of interesting tweets over the weekend.

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nTask

DECEMBER 23, 2021

You have to be on your toes all the time, keeping an eye on task statuses, staying updated with the latest developments, paying attention to your team members’ performance , identifying and mitigating issues, and constantly improving processes for the future. The fight can get more crushing if you have to do everything manually.

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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." The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . Let's look at what an estimate is.

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