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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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2022

One way is to estimate Product Backlog item (PBI) size. In a recent article, we talked about three ways to estimate: Exact estimation, relative estimation, and flow metrics. This week, I’d like to dive a bit deeper into the most popular estimation technique: relative estimation. . T-shirt sizes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Learn how to help your team manage risk so you can split the work between you. Boost your skills: Make sure everyone on the team knows how to manage risks and what the process is. Boost your skills: Start by understanding how to manage a change as laid out by your Project Management Office. Need a mentor?

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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. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2022

How to create a rolling wave plan. Gather accurate estimates for the work that is now on the near-term horizon, and update your schedule with those detailed activities now you know about them. Pin for later reading: This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2022

I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. We have so much material about what processes to use, and yet it is estimated that 70% – and possibly as much as 81% – of project success depends on the human side of projects. She’s even written the book on it.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We’ll highlight key features, show you how to build a Microsoft Project Gantt chart and identify some of the pitfalls of the Gantt chart for Microsoft Project. Set a Project Schedule Baseline A project baseline is an estimate of the time, scope or cost of a project. What Can You Use a Microsoft Project Gantt Chart For?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 29, 2022

Work with them to identify relevant security controls, how to implement them as procedures, and how to validate that they work correctly. Make identifying the sources for these requirements part of your planning process, and ensure that your project budget and labor estimates reflect the level of effort required.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

In this article we’ll look at the types of artifacts in project management, typical documents for each type. Artifacts in the PMBOK Guide – Seventh Edition Artifacts are categorized in the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh edition into 9 different types and that’s what this article is going to look at. What is an artifact?

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nTask

JANUARY 6, 2023

In this article, we’ll discuss some ways to estimate time effectively, so that you can get the most out of your limited resources. Managing a project can be a difficult task, especially when you don’t have a lot of time to spare.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2024

I’ll show you how. Then I’ll show you a worked example (from a fictional proposal but you will be able to see how to apply this to your project). For more on how to create a project budget, this article has all the info you need.) So, how do you convince an evaluator that your idea will work?

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Teamweek

AUGUST 1, 2022

Project cost estimation can be challenging, especially when the project is complicated and has many moving parts. In this guide, you’ll learn: What a project cost estimate is Why most project cost estimates are terrible How to create an accurate project estimate What to do after creating your project cost estimate.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 26, 2022

Data about how far off the original estimates were is needed to make accurate forecasts. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. There will be pressure from stakeholders to commit to a new schedule. Measuring progress in small steps will help tremendously.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Parametric estimation is a crucial estimation technique in project management. That’s because parametric estimations are highly accurate and take some guesswork from your estimation process. What is parametric estimating? The more granular the parameter, the more accurate the estimate.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Top-down estimating is a form of estimation where existing knowledge of similar projects is used in the estimation process to produce a ballpark figure for the total cost. Like other methods to estimate a new project’s cost , top-down estimation has advantages and disadvantages. What is top-down estimating?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

One of the reasons for that is scope creep – and that’s what this article is all about. How to avoid scope creep. How do you do that? If they have any supporting materials (like quotes or estimates for the work that needs to be done) that might help the analysis, ask for those too. What is scope creep?

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

Inaccurate time estimation is the cause of 25% of failed projects. Learning how to estimate time for a project is tricky, but critical to its success. In this guide we’ll go over: What is time estimating in project management? Why is estimating time for tasks important? Feel free to skip ahead to the how-to steps.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 27, 2022

You validate estimating methods and their accuracy. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. In this step you execute your recovery plan to return the program to usefulness. This allows you to produce an accurate forecast of program completion.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this article we’ll look at 3 methods to track percent complete. It’s a way to track project progress – quite an important part of how to manage a project. Percent complete on a project refers to how far through you are for any given task (or the project overall). Ask them how they rate progress on the task.

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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 27, 2022

In honor of National Superhero Day on April 28th, this article gives tips on how we can rise to “superhero status” as project managers. If you use LiquidPlanner’s priority-based software, you can estimate when projects will be completed with 90% confidence so that you can be the superhero project manager with minimal effort.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

Read on and learn more about how a project management tool that is reasonably usable when you use it out of the box without any modifications turns into a bureaucratic nightmare, what the reasons for this might be, and what we can do about it. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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MPUG

APRIL 18, 2024

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. It is incumbent upon you to get your scope right during the definition stage.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 28, 2019

After publishing my article entitled Evaluating Risks Using Qualitative Risk Analysis , I received questions on how to determine project budget reserves. Question #2 How do we estimate a contingency reserve? For example, a project manager may estimate the project cost to be $100,000. Here are my answers.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Need to know how to plan an event? For this article, let’s focus on large events. A conference is a common type of large event, so for our purposes, let’s talk about a TEDx conference that we were involved in to illustrate how to plan an event. You’ll also want to estimate the amount of people expected to speak and attend.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Project managers need to be comfortable with different estimation techniques. Foundational project management courses will teach you about analogous, bottom-up, parametric and three-point estimating. Take a course covering agile delivery and you’ll learn about relative sizing techniques such as estimating poker or t-shirt sizing.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In roles where time-tracking is useful, look into tools like Toggl , where your team can log how much time they spend working on each task. It can be helpful to compare estimates back to actuals to review how accurate the estimates were and inform future task planning. Remote has created a useful guide on the topic.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If you’re a founder, product strategist, or team leader looking to beat the competition and deliver for your customers, this article is for you! Existing customer insights Too many companies focus their competitive analysis on attracting new customers and forget to consider how to retain their current clients.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Using project planning templates can help you schedule tasks, estimate budgets and allocate resources. Being able to accurately estimate those costs and make a realistic project budget can make the difference between a healthy profit margin and losing money on the project. Without a plan, projects are in trouble.

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

“ I’ve done this a million times–let’s skip estimating just this once.”. You rush through the beginning estimates only to miss deadlines, blow budgets, and draw raised eyebrows from clients. In this guide we’ll cover: What are project estimation techniques? What are project estimation techniques? Cost estimations.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. We have so much material about what processes to use, and yet it is estimated that 70% – and possibly as much as 81% – of project success depends on the human side of projects. She’s even written the book on it.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 6, 2019

Let's explore how to manage project scope. Read this article from Villanova University. The lowest levels of the WBS are the work products and deliverables used for scheduling, estimating, monitoring, and controlling the project. Learn how to build a WBS. You receive sign off. Brian Tracy. Click to Tweet.

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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 recommendation Executive summary example #1: Project status update Executive summary example #2: Resource decision How to write a great executive summary for your next project 1. The current status or problem 3.

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MPUG

JULY 8, 2019

One of the most frequently asked questions when someone is about to start a new task is likely, “how much time will it take?”. That is why duration estimation is one of the most important aspects of project management. The Estimation Problem. You might hear from the client that the estimates look high. Exact Estimates.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 17, 2023

For example, if your project aims to roll out hands-on training to 3,000 factory workers about how to safely use a new piece of equipment, then you are constrained by how many trainers and pieces of demo equipment are available. Track time Record hours worked so people know what time is being used and how it is being used.

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Epicflow Blog

MARCH 2, 2020

How New Managers Can Get Better at Making Decisions. Written by Art Petty, this article proposes 8 tips for managers to become better decision-makers. Teach your team members how to make programmed decisions according to the company policies. How to Help Your Managers Engage Their Teams.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2021

This first article will cover the Scrum Master role. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Retromat offers a wealth of exercises to choose from, see also: How to Curate Retrospectives with Retromat. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers.

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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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