MPUG

JANUARY 8, 2024

By definition, there can be no data on exactly how long this unique effort will 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. But before we start, let’s tackle the Estimation Elephant in the Room….

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

Data about how far off the original estimates were is needed to make accurate forecasts. This includes validating all the estimates and checking how people arrived at them because it helps you produce an accurate forecast for program completion. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

While definitions of quality vary between professional organizations, they all have “being fit for purpose” as a common theme. The ISO 9001 definition is very similar to APM’s, as is the definition in the PMI PMBOK ®. You can create your own definition if you want, but “fit for purpose” works for us.

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Teamweek

MARCH 5, 2024

{ “@context”: “[link] “@type”: “Article”, “headline”: “Timely vs Toggl: A Definitive Comparison [March 2024]”, “alternativeHeadline”: “Toggl vs Timely: Which Should You Use? Toggl’s time tracking feature also edges Timely’s in terms of project forecast.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2024

The list below isn’t definitive but includes those categories that a typical RFI in construction will include. The RFQ asks how a vendor or contractor should handle a specific aspect of a project, from cost estimation to work descriptions. Here are some of the construction-related articles we’ve posted.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

These also work for coaching your team, so if you are definitely not interested in learning all those spreadsheet formulae, help someone else get their skills up to scratch so they can best support you! Book a power hour Pin for later reading This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management Need a mentor?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

The more precise and compelling your definition of the project’s purpose, the more likely it will be planned and delivered successfully. Estimate Resources Resources are the people, equipment and materials you need to complete the project. One must know the why of the project: why are we doing this?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 3, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn about 20 things to include in a project plan. Project definition. The project definition is something I’d definitely include in a project plan. Estimating assumptions and methods. If you have company-approved estimating techniques, note which ones you are going to use.

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Epicflow Blog

JULY 5, 2022

Estimation of project cost is one of the core practices of the project initiation stage, which becomes the basis for the approved project budget. Therefore, a proper cost estimation is about finding a fine line in this complex process. What helps make cost estimation simple and efficient? How to estimate project cost .

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 13, 2022

Have you noticed these are all framed in terminology used for project estimating ? We can frame and present different details for the purpose of making it more relevant,” Jo explained, going on to say that this definitely doesn’t mean that different people get different versions of the story. Use stories to report data. Next steps.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 25, 2022

The meeting should start with a brief welcome and then the definition of the subject itself; it’s a powerful argument to keep the focus! If the required data is available and you are confident using it, then calculate the estimated cost of the meeting. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2023

In this article, I’ll share my top tips for working out the answers to the graded quizzes, how to plan your time and how to get the certificate for the lowest possible cost (not free, but very cheap). The case study is realistic and well-put together, you will definitely find it useful if you have not worked on a project end-to-end before.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Robert Wysocki came up with my favourite definition of what project management is, that I use in most of my training courses. It talks about working with customers and customer proxies, defining acceptance tests and then goes on to discuss ways of agile estimating and planning how to use those stories in an iteration. Buy on Amazon.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

AI has turned up in the project management trends articles over the past few years and it’s now most definitely here to stay. AI can be used in project management for planning and scheduling, risk identification and risk management , estimating task duration and effort, resource utilization and planning and much more.

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Scrum.org

JULY 6, 2021

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? How are you estimating the likely effort of a Product Backlog item? Are you estimating in man-hours or story points? How are you practicing the estimation process if the team shares different opinions? Are you re-estimating work items at the end of a Sprint?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Do you want to get articles like this one from the Scrum Master Survival Guide in your inbox? Who is creating your Definition of ‘Done?’ . The question is an excellent bridge to learning about the Definition of ‘Done’ in general; for example, has it regularly inspected and adapted? Product Backlog Creation and Estimation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2022

A project manager knows that these project fundamentals will guide decisions throughout the project, so their role in this initial phase is to support the team in forming a shared understanding and clear definitions of these fundamentals. These can be broken down in smaller, more manageable sub-tasks and estimated by the team.

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MPUG

APRIL 18, 2024

It is incumbent upon you to get your scope right during the definition stage. For a deeper dive into defining scope and getting stakeholders on-board, refer to the previous article – Scope Creep: How to Prevent a Major Source of Project Failure. This article provides an overview of the scoping process in four steps.

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Proofhub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Best Time Management Articles That Are Loved: Reviewed And Ranked Managing time is of utmost importance to be able to conduct projects effectively. So here I’ve curated a list of best time-management articles that are insightful and you should follow to have the best tips. Bad at Time Management? Check this ou t?—?a

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was ‘estimated’ rather than created totally randomly from scratch. But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact. I would definitely have informed my senior management about the incident.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 16, 2023

In this article, I’ll share how we addressed this challenge, what experiments we tried, and what insights I gained from the period after 2015. Estimate the Product Backlog together. This means the necessary budget for this project would be between 200.000,- and 280.000,- (given the estimate of 5–7 Sprints).

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Online PM Courses

JULY 30, 2018

These have been among our most popular and heavily-read articles, so I hope you’ll enjoy them. We have written a lot of articles (and we’ll continue to do so) on how to make your projects succeed. These articles include: How to get Better Project Management Results. – 1 – Project Definition.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

In this article, let’s look at a few ways we can change from risk managing us to us managing the risk. Let me refresh your memory on the definition of risk. The three most prevalent are: Looking at risk wrong, Poor risk definition, and Limited thinking. Poor Risk Definition In defining risks, we also define them inadequately.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A project budget contains the financial details of your project, including the estimates of all the money you need to layout to lead a successful project, from resources to materials. That means your estimates have to be accurate, or as much so as you can make them. You’re definitely going to have costs in this area.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 17, 2022

In this article, I’ll give you some tips about how to be aware of the impact of culture on communication at work and how to create an environment that is inclusive. It’s estimated that nonverbal communication makes up about 60-70% of all human communication, which means it can be a very powerful tool. The basics. Key takeaways.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 23, 2023

In other words, if you are finding that the ‘guess how long a task takes’ school of estimating and project planning isn’t working out for you, then this course will quickly help you up your game. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management You can’t take the quizzes on mobile. The diagrams don’t show up.

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PM Basics

MARCH 5, 2019

But let me simplify it for you in this article. Definition of Risk Response Strategies. So, for example, low accuracy of estimates may come from lack of Scope Decomposition. You can put more time to do the estimates and check them with team members. How to select a Risk Response Strategy? Sounds complicated.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In this article, I will discuss the tools that are used at each phase of the Tuckman model to coach teams towards peak performance. Definition of Done. As the 2020 Scrum Guide puts it, “The moment a Product Backlog item meets the Definition of Done, an Increment is born.” . Definition of Done.

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Scrum.org

MAY 15, 2023

The following article offers a primer to creating ChatGPT prompts for Scrum practitioners to get you started running. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Explain the benefits and drawbacks of different estimation techniques. Create a Definition of Done. Yub, that works, too.) ?? Design a Sprint board.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 29, 2021

In this article we’ll look at common project risks so you can start filling up your risk log and making the right plans. The PMI definition of risk is: “an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has a positive or negative effect on a project’s objectives.”. Poor estimating. Sometimes the estimates are just rubbish.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2022

A great way to engage others is to see their intrinsic strengths, highlight them and help them to find ways to use those strengths, even if the official definition of their job does not seem to call for it. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. How do you get engagement? Gertman et.

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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? Let’s start with the definition of a principle. That is, to make decision with “No estimates”.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Here are the mathematical definitions. not the Wikipedia definition, not the self-made definitions used to support their conjectures. An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population. Estimates can be about the past, present, or future.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 31, 2020

Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Is it a joint team effort with the PO, or is the Product Owner writing the work items and the Development Team estimates them?) There is a tendency to observe that Product Owners become more a kind “technical writer” of Product Backlog items which then get estimated by the team.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 2, 2022

” But that is perhaps a somewhat outdated definition these days. When a virtual user is created and the hours remaining are estimated accurately, using the resource workload tab allows the user to view future availability. Whatever you do in the (near) future and beyond, always consider the ‘new’ definition of a team.

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Workamajig

MAY 24, 2018

This article will help you understand scope creep, its causes, and its solutions. The definition of scope creep is contained in the term itself. It eats into your budget, cuts down your profits, and ruins your deadline estimations. Going by the above definition, you’d think that scope creep is always disastrous for a project.

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Scrum.org

MAY 30, 2022

In my last article, I explained why we need to stop talking about "carryover" and how it's not actually a thing in Scrum. Any PBIs that are not completed in the Sprint get put back in the Product Backlog, and they would be updated, re-estimated, and re-ordered to reflect what we know now. 4 Common Misunderstandings of "Carryover". #1

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