Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

In Scrum terms, this is about improving upon the Definition of Done. And in the 21st century for software development teams, this means realizing the paradigm of Continuous Delivery. We have reviewed those ideas in an article on Team Topologies and highlighted some serious drawbacks of such an org design.

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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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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate. Project A project is something that has a definite start and end (i.e., Also known as continuous process improvement.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 31, 2022

Yes, definitely. It may be helpful to break the project into smaller tasks and assignments to estimate project deliverables and resource needs better. Get input from your team and project stakeholders before committing to a timeline to ensure everyone is aligned on estimates and priorities. Unfortunately, this is not rare.

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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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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2022

How do you estimate the impact on the throughput when adding new people to the team? And from scientific research to software development. Central to the definition of Kanban is the concept of flow. How to explain to a team that the size of the items (effort) doesn’t impact the overall cycle time? So, don’t cherry-pick.”.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2017

The common definition of the Definition of Done in agile software development is (mostly from the Scrum Alliance and other official Scrum sites): A simple list of activities (coding, comments, unit testing, integration, release notes, design documents, etc.) The Agile Definition of Done is a coders view of the project.

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International Institute for Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In the past five years, there have been numerous articles discussing how Artificial Intelligence (AI), can and will benefit the field of project management. Advances in software development. Recognizing the need for AI applications has been discussed in numerous journal articles. Harold Kerzner. Introduction.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 13, 2022

Trust me, you are definitely not alone. An even better way to communicate project progress is through cloud-based project management software. Software like LiquidPlanner allows all project contributors to provide inputs such as updating task status, estimating work, and tracking time against tasks directly into the project plan.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When I asked my wife about the theme for this article, she rolled her eyes with wonder on how I could geek out so much on project management. In my experience, project leaders do not accurately estimate tasks, they fail to set clear priorities, and do not realistically plan for unexpected but likely changes that always seem to emerge.

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

” This definition emphasizes the temporary and unique nature of a project, with a predetermined start and end date, as well as its focus on creating a specific outcome. Scrum is a framework that can be used in a variety of different industries, including software development, marketing, product design, and many others.

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nTask

JANUARY 5, 2022

Well, if you are looking for an answer to this question, then you came to the right place because, in this article, we are going to talk about everything related to agile velocity and everything related to this concept. A Getting Started Guide to Agile System Development Life Cycle. What is Agile Velocity?

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MPUG

JANUARY 14, 2022

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Sam Bell’s course, Critical Path Modeling Using Microsoft Project (Lesson 1: Estimating Resources and Using Resource Calendars), being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Or if I just need a high level estimate, we can take time to actually do the planning later.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? An estimate is. It's a fallacy.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

You can find definitions online as easily as I. A metaphor usually captures some salient aspect of a Thing, but never comprehensively or definitively defines or describes the Thing. “Velocity” in software development doesn’t mean velocity. Estimated hours completed? What Is a Metaphor Not?

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Planio

APRIL 22, 2024

According to some estimates , PMs spend 90% of their time communicating with team members, sponsors, and stakeholders. The budget and scope remain on track, but there are risks to the project’s software development resources following a resignation. Project managers are born communicators. 60,000) from 1st January.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? This variation can be explained by the fact that initial concepts do not describe the final software system accurate enough.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 20, 2022

By definition, Cs were not very important or urgent and if they slipped to the next day, that was okay. The best ones used ranged estimates to determine resource needs and predict outcomes. Disciplined users of this system would focus first on the A1s and only after those were complete, move on to A2s, A3s, B1s and so on.

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Oracle is a software company with its own ERP solution and offers Oracle Netsuite as an ERP service as well. You can also take a look at Enlyft’s list of ERPs and their estimated market shares here. For a great immersion into ERP applications, you can check out Oracle’s definition video for ERP solutions and their benefits.

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

If you want to learn more about ERP capabilities, you can see Oracle Netsuite’s feature list as well as Oracle’s article background ERP software. Oracle is a software company with its own ERP solution and offers Oracle Netsuite as an ERP service as well. How does ERP Software Selection Work?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2017

The classic paper “ Software Engineering Economics,” Barry Boehm, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol SE-10(1), 1984, pp. opens with a dictionary definition of economics as a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. .

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This article will provide you with an in-depth guide on how to prevent project scope creep, from understanding its definition to implementing strategies and tools to control it. Imagine a software development project where the project manager estimated that it would take three months to complete.

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ProProfs Project Management

MAY 16, 2019

AI has already begun revolutionizing various aspects of our lives such as online shopping, and it definitely has brought in a change for the better. When we talk specifically about IT project management, app development companies or DevOps teams are responsible for managing various software development projects.

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

The paper on the Cone of Uncertainty is used by many in the No Estimates community as an example of why estimates are of little use. In this paper, there is data that does not follow the Cone of Uncertainty, in that the uncertainty of the estimates does not reduce as the project proceeds. Then there is some analysis.

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PM Basics

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In this article, you’ll find the real-life project risk management plan example. It comes from my practical experience working on software development projects. Risk Management Plan Definition. If you don’t know where to start, look at my article about the Risk Register. Definition of Probability and Impact.

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Herding Cats

MAY 15, 2019

Here's one of many definitions . Story points are a unit of measure for expressing an estimate of the overall effort that will be required to fully implement a product backlog item or any other piece of work. When we estimate with story points, we assign a point value to each item. Quickly estimate issues. Bibliography.

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used in the software development and IT industry for the past sixteen years, but recently it has gained wide acceptance by many number of industries and organizations. Project Estimation. How do you come up with project estimation in Agile world? Amazingly nature works.

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Teamweek

MAY 28, 2020

In this article, let’s look at the 10 best Trello alternatives that offer the best of Trello and then some more. In both views, tasks can be assigned to one or more team members, have start and end dates, include effort estimates, and can be classified using tags. For software development teams. Not budget-friendly ?

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The conclusion was reached by the research team that an incremental approach to software development works better. The team creates a working prototype quickly and then incrementally improves the software both in terms of functionality and quality. Project Estimation. No wonder so many projects were failing.

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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

MARCH 21, 2018

In the absence of omniscience, efforts to predict to any useful degree of certainty what events will have an effect the work and whether these uncertainties will occur require careful consideration and of course estimates needed to assess the presence and impacts of Epistemic and Aleatory uncertainties that create risk. . Related articles.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2017

This quote is coming back in the modern era of internet-based misinformation pundits in many domains, including project management and software development processes. But it only takes one black swan to falsify the claim definitively. Related articles. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 15, 2017

Why estimates don't work - Carmen is assigned a project that will make or break the company. Then comes one of three quotes that are the basis of the argument for NOT estimating. This quote is misused to suggest that estimating can't be done. I posted some comments on the #NoEstimates book awhile back. Chapter 1 Introduction.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In our Software Intensive System of Systems domain, this is the definition of Agile we use from the now-Secretary of Defense Dr. Carter. Making decisions in the presence of this emerging uncertainty requires making estimates of the impacts or outcomes of any decision. Related articles. Doing the Math. IT Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Forgetting even more that "agile" is a bottom-up software development solution. The definitions of "needs attention" and "significant concerns" is provided in terms of mission suitability rather than simple - and simple-minded cost and schedule. Related articles. Willian pointed out the bands for measuring success.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Projects are over budget and behind schedule, to some extent because uncertainties are not accounted for in schedule estimates. The notion that Estimates lead to buffers. When estimating the cost of work, that resulting cost number is a random variable. Point estimates of cost have little value in the presence of uncertainty.

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