International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Perhaps the most significant reason for the slow growth of many needed project management changes was due to senior management’s desire for standardization of governance and execution for the multitude of traditional projects managed for external clients. The Growth of Agile and Scrum Practices.

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

government began using it to manage complex defense projects. Scrum The Scrum framework helps teams work together more effectively by implementing the Agile methodology. In Scrum, everyone on the team works together to plan and execute the project in short sprints.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

And so if you show up and like you say, “Hey, I want to adopt Agile,” but you know, you’re not familiar with the strategies or Agile governance strategies or such, right? So, you think SAFE, Large-Scale Scrum maybe, although I don’t know that fits in that category, Scrum as a model, XP as a model, and things like that.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Plus we’ve added handy links to help you dive deeper into different topics with videos, articles and even our round-up of all resources so you can put these important terms into practice with your projects. Baseline A baseline is an estimate of the project’s scope, schedule and costs that is created during the planning stage.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We thought it would be cool to round up all those Field Notes into one article and share the best of the best with you. Four Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation In this article, our CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, explores why focusing on practices and culture isn’t the right place to start an Agile Transformation.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

The estimate of Desired (or even contractual ) schedule, cost, or technical performance of the software project. The granularity of these estimates determining the dynamic behavior of the system ‒ the software project. So don't let anyone suggest estimating at any level - Feature, Stroy, or Task is right or wrong until they can answer.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

They did a great job of getting the message out Scrum and the Scrum certification did a great job of getting the message out. We’re starting to see HBR articles written more than one. Does it mean that we start Doing Scrum, right? We typically want to have those stories estimated, right?

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Scrum is) more defined rather than empirical process. scrum, not agile. not as it was prior to scrum. Scrum is prescriptive and defined rather than empirical. This took me back since Scrum is derived from an empirical closed loop control system developed in the USAF by Col. Related articles. Boyds papers.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With regard to the Tiger Tops workforce, what is the estimated time-on-the-job for all employees (in years)? Well, we had to move one entire lodge from the interior of the jungle, to the exterior (as mandated by the government). We have PCs and most staff have mobile phones, but we don’t use any of those to really manage projects.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

Experts in AI estimate that the implementation cost in some organizations could conceivably be in the millions of dollars. CONCLUSIONS After reading all the risks identified in this article, you should ask yourself, “Is AI worth consideration for project management applications?” Dr. Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. Kerzner, Ph.D., Check it out!

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

This article explains all you need to know about project charters: what they are and why you need them, essential elements every charter must contain, and different project charter templates to bring your project planning together. This is useful for projects of all types and sizes, whether simple or complex.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

A project-based funding structure creates a slower, more complicated budgeting process that requires estimates, plans, and details far before they are able to be accurate. Progress is measured based on compliance to plan, instead of actual business outcomes or customer satisfaction. Lean More.

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MPUG

APRIL 15, 2022

Like for examples, infrastructure, organizational culture structure, governance, resource availability, marketplace conditions, et cetera. For the most part, maturity, when I say that level of maturity, it means how strict and standardized configuration management, data governance, documentation process is practiced within the organization.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Deciding how much precision and accuracy is needed for a credible estimate is critical to the success of that decision.

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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. This is a picture of a bad scrum team. Chapter 1 Introduction.

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Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

You can learn more about their PMP and CAPM qualifications in our companion article. You may also like our article: PMI Education Contact Hours and PDUs: Your Essential Guide. Governance (project, program, portfolio). Time, budget, and cost estimation. Many of our full length articles. Technical Project Management.

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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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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

MARCH 7, 2016

This is not to say those 5 developers sitting around the table with the Product Owner and the Scrum Master are not working on vitally important code. The Release Plan is built during the Release Management process which plans, manages, and governs release of products resulting from the development effort. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2017

Estimating how much is the starting point. Since all risks come from uncertainty, we have to estimate those uncertainties, their impacts, their residual risks after mitigation. Estimating is part of risk management. No Estimating? This is true for planting tomatoes, writing software with Scrum, flying to Mars.

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Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2017

The other statistical issue is the chart showing #Noestimates versus other types of estimates. The Performance Index of #Noestimates in the chart above shows differences from Scrum and Lightweight Scrum. Maybe 11 to 12 for No Estimates and maybe some less than 15 for Light Weight Scrum, say 13. .

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. So, that’s done a lot more in the commercial space than it ever is in most government spaces. By education and training.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 14, 2016

Both of these activities require careful planning and execution of the plan, along with the estimate of the probability of occurrence of a reducible event and the statistical distribution of the naturally occurring variances and the probabilistic impact on the success of the project. Related articles. COBIT , DoDAF , ToGAF.

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MPUG

MARCH 18, 2021

Well, first and foremost, the history behind and my first approach, I don’t know if anybody read the teaser article, but the idea was that, originally when I was introduced to it, was during an ISO audit. Or whoever’s governing this. It has to be something, for example, we would say, okay, well, we have to have scrums.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

This week we witnessed the launch event of the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner-Advanced class, and we could not be more excited about it. In this article, I’d like to take you on a journey to discover what questions this training addresses and why. We know that there are many organizations who don’t do ‘perfect Scrum’.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Having spent half my life in the commercial space and half in the government space, the questions are always there. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs. And we track those because we want to know is the scrum teams, are they maintaining a quality product? What’s happening now.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? Estimation of Long?Term Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty … and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean,” Phil Beenhouwer, The Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA), May 17, 2006. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ? reducible and irreducible ?

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

requires making estimates) ? Estimation of Long?Term Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty … and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean,” Phil Beenhouwer, The Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA), May 17, 2006. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ? reducible and irreducible ?

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MPUG

DECEMBER 3, 2021

He manages a large federal government training contract and teaches primarily Microsoft Project and project management courses. He joined Edwards in 2004 as a project coordinator and scheduler and provided project planning and scheduling support to variety of commercial and federal government clients. That sort of thing.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2020

This article aims to outline 6 key principles necessary to build such a business. Set by the NZ Government for the COVID-19 crisis, it is obvious what is being asked, but more importantly, why. Traditional Company estimates that on an average year it wastes $72M on either watermelon projects or projects that require additional funding.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 10, 2019

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called 'The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery'. And now in these four articles. Estimates were wildly unreliable; the backlog had only increased in size, morale was low, and yet nothing seemed to be happening. Background.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. COSMIC Software Estimation Approach,” Alain Abran, ICEAA Workshop, Portland Oregon, June 6?9, Estimating Probable System Cost,” Stephen A. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

We were on of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . And, my customer is equally as clueless about the need to estimate as I am.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things.

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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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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

So you have master in Scrum, or master in Kanban or like a professional in Lean. For example, prioritizing the product backlog or refining the product backlog, doing an own value management with respect to the product backlog or estimating, or having the various project accounting principles with respect to product management.

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