ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. ProjectManager’s kanban boards offer advanced planning, scheduling and tracking features to help you manage your team’s workload and track their performance. Get started for free today.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

TL; DR: Estimates Are Useful, Just Ditch the Numbers. Many people dislike estimating work items as estimates supposedly open the path to the misuse of velocity by the managers, reintroducing Taylorism, micro-management, and excessive reporting through the backdoor. Estimating Leading to Micro-Management; the Legacy of Taylorism.

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nTask

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One of the things agile project managers struggle the most with is an accurate agile estimation. How can one be sure that their plan will work in the long run? How are PMs identify the time and effort required to accomplish a task in the backlog? When things get tough for PMs, they turn to […].

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2023

TL; DR: Useless Agile Metrics Ideally, a metric is a leading indicator for a pattern change, allowing your Scrum team to analyze the cause in time and take countermeasures. What if these useless agile metrics lead you in the wrong direction while providing you with the illusion that you know where your team is heading?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 23, 2023

Recently I audited the Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management course from University of Virginia Darden Business School. I’ve put together this Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management course review to answer all your questions so you can save time deciding whether it is right for you.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 25, 2022

What Is Agile Project Management? Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project through short planning cycles called sprints. Agile project management allows teams to gather customer feedback as the project progresses. That flexibility must be evident in agile software, too.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2022

Rolling wave planning, also known as progressive elaboration, is an iterative planning technique to use when it’s difficult (or pointless) to schedule too far ahead. The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It often lures us into the trap of deterministic estimates. However, with Agile practices, where adaptability and responsiveness reign supreme, sticking to rigid timelines can be a recipe for disappointment. What Are the Pitfalls of Deterministic Estimates? Agile values collaboration, empowerment, and ownership.

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The Digital Project Manager

MARCH 30, 2017

Planning Poker is a great freemium agile estimation digital card game that enables a collaborative approach for consensus-driven estimating to guide sprint planning. The post Planning Poker – build accurate estimates for sprints on agile projects appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 13, 2020

Ask a dozen people what agile is and you’ll get a dozen different answers. Scrum is a way to manage a project within an agile framework and is made up of three roles: product owner, scrum master and team. For this post, we’re going to take a deep dive into one of the events in the scrum framework, sprint planning.

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Online PM Courses

JULY 25, 2022

Why is Project Estimation a big deal? It's very hard to do well & poor estimates are often a major reason for cost or schedule over-runs. The post Project Estimating Skills: How to Master Successful Project Estimation appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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ActiveCollab

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Accurate estimation is an important part of Agile project management. It allows teams to plan effectively, set realistic expectations, and deliver value to stakeholders. In this blog article, we will explore the concept of T-shirt sizing as a method for estimation in Agile projects.

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Growing Agile

MAY 12, 2022

Anyone who knows me knows I’m not a fan of estimation. Instead of that we should be listing what features we want in a backlog that is not estimated. Once those decisions have been made the team can pull it into their planning session and start to really break down the work into tasks that make sense. That can come later.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Misstep of Focusing on Story Points and Velocity in Agile Teams As someone working in the realm of Agile, I've observed a common yet troubling trend among many teams: an overemphasis on story points and velocity. This practice not only undermines the essence of Agile but also hampers transparency and honesty within teams.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This is called supply chain planning. Let’s take a closer look at supply chain planning and what it means for your business planning. What Is Supply Chain Planning? This includes adjusting the plan according to demand planning forecasts, while keeping in mind production capacity constraints and availability of materials.

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2022

According to the 2020 Scrum Guide, “Product Backlog items that can be Done by the Scrum Team within one Sprint are deemed ready for selection in a Sprint Planning event.” One way is to estimate Product Backlog item (PBI) size. This week, I’d like to dive a bit deeper into the most popular estimation technique: relative estimation.

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WorkOtter

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resource estimation is an integral part of project management that often gets overlooked. Here’s your guide to resource estimation in project management and other factors, such as resource costs. What Is Resource Estimation in Project Management? Do we have staff members who know how to estimate resources for a project?

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nTask

APRIL 5, 2021

One such way of improving performance in Agile planning. Agile panning is used by a whopping 71% of organizations to manage their projects. It has been proven that agile projects have a faster delivery rate when compared with other methodologies of project planning and management. What Is Agile Planning?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

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.” Lack of action – The plan does not get actioned.

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MPUG

JANUARY 8, 2024

When planning a new project, your boss, your client, or your project sponsor will want to know… “How long is this going to take?” The solution, of course, is estimating. There is a whole science to estimation, and it would be possible to go very deeply into this. NoEstimates Agile projects are fast and adaptive.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results. If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. If your Agile isn’t helping you do that, then it’s not really Agile at all. First, how are we forming teams?

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The IIL Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

By Alan Zucker Agile seems like a mystery to many. However, when we step back and inspect agile, we see that it follows common, recognizable patterns from our daily lives. Your family is planning the upcoming weekend. Let’s explore how agile practices can be applied to this common predicament.

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Musings on Project Management

JUNE 18, 2018

This is not as stuffy as it sounds: Plan-Do Check-Act -- Plan-do-check-act (PDCA) envisions planning--just enough, and gasp! perhaps an estimate as well--for what is to be done, then doing it—that is the plan-do. Next, measure results—measuring is the. check activity (did someone say: accountability?)—and

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. Project strategy is made up of your plan and the tools that are used to complete the project. It also streamlines project planning, which increases efficiency as you work on new projects and don’t have to start at square one.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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. What happens when the business needs to start becoming more agile? They are already agile.

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

So let’s have a look at some typical agile negotiation scenarios. ?? Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: Agile Verhandlungen – Das Leben ist Verhandlungssache; warum sollte Scrum anders sein? ? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 46,000-plus subscribers.

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nTask

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Resource Planning in project management has been gaining traction for a while now. Moreover, since the concept of resource planning is generating so much noise, the project management has responded in kind and that’s why the qualifications regarding the people that are considered experts in the field have evolved and become more complex.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Still plenty of teams use hourly estimates for complex work. Relative estimation: takes less time, focuses on team collaboration i.o. Relative estimation: takes less time, focuses on team collaboration i.o. Relative estimation: takes less time, focuses on team collaboration i.o. In my experience this always hurts.

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Velociteach

JUNE 7, 2023

Agile seems like a mystery to many. However, when we step back and inspect agile, we see that it follows common, recognizable patterns from our daily lives. Your family is planning the upcoming weekend. Let’s explore how agile practices can be applied to this common predicament. Imagine it is Thursday evening.

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Techno-PM

OCTOBER 10, 2022

What Is Agile Release Planning? Agile Release Planning is a process that helps organisations to plan and manage agile software development projects. The Agile Release Planning process is an important part of agile software development because it helps organisations to create a road map for the project.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

That’s where a project implementation plan comes in. An implementation plan guides your entire team through the who , what , when , and how of your project — providing clarity, alignment, and accountability for everyone involved. Jump to a section: What is an implementation plan? What is an implementation plan?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. Join more us on July 6, 2021, for the Hands-on Agile #32: How to Win with Agile Resistant Teams—Scott Weiner. Remember, “Agile” is a mindset, not a methodology. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 22, 2023

First of all, what is meant by release planning? ( What is “release planning”? What people mean by “release planning” is trying to forecast when we will deliver certain things when certain releases might happen, and we might not know for sure what’s on those releases. Estimates are just estimates.

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nTask

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Agile project management methodology is one of the most interesting and effective ways to manage your projects and get the most value out of them. But how do these sprints unfold and what are the steps that go into the sprint planning process. What is Sprint Planning? Duration of a Sprint Planning Session and the Attendees.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It’s extremely easy to use with a low learning curve, so even if you aren’t (and don’t want to be) agile experts, you can quickly improve productivity and collaboration. Cost and plans: Free plan with limited features and users. The software is aimed at firms who want to add agility to improve time to market. You do that.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2020

I believe Agile software development is more than ready to use new forecasting techniques to express uncertainy to narrow their decision-making process. These new forecasting techniques are not based on estimations but historical data, thus saving time on the part of developers to focus on what they do best. Definition of a forecast.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 4, 2024

Trello doesn’t have Gantt charts, lacks any resource management or cost management features and has overly basic features for project planning, scheduling or tracking. You can also enter the estimated cost of other project resources such as materials and equipment rental costs for each of your tasks in their corresponding kanban cards.

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