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Which estimation methods are favored for adaptive delivery?

Kiron Bondale

If you ever find yourself wanting to inject some energy into a cross-functional gathering of delivery staff and stakeholders, ask for their opinion on estimates. Relative sizing – this covered such techniques as story pointing, T-shirt sizing, affinity estimating and others.

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Strategic Project Portfolio Management [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It covers the whole lifecycle from finding ideas for projects, through the prioritization process and planning for the most productive organization possible. Estimating for success Maybe best of all, Moore talks about range-based estimates – a topic I’m very interested in. This book review first appeared in 2016.

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Planning a Budget for a Proposal in 5 Easy Steps (+ Example)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Granted, if the budget you build in the proposal phase is carefully put together and everything goes according to plan, you will end up using that directly as your project budget, but for the purposes of this article, let’s just stick to the proposal phase. For more on how to create a project budget, this article has all the info you need.)

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20 Things For Your Project Management Plan [With 3 Free Templates]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, you’ll learn about 20 things to include in a project plan. Reference the business case and any prior documentation. It’s always easier to reference other documents than try to reproduce them in here. It’s a guide to how the project will be managed. So what does go in the project management plan ?

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Project Cost Estimation: Overview of the Process, Main Challenges, and Recommendations

Epicflow Blog

Estimation of project cost is one of the core practices of the project initiation stage, which becomes the basis for the approved project budget. However, the main challenge of this process is that it has to be performed under conditions of uncertainty – you can forecast only the approximate budget you’re going to spend on a project.

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article we’ll look at the types of artifacts in project management, typical documents for each type. You might also here artifacts referred to as templates, documents, outputs or deliverables, but in all cases they relate to the work of managing the project, not the thing you are creating as the output of the project.

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12 Free Project Planning Templates for Excel and Word

ProjectManager.com

Using project planning templates can help you schedule tasks, estimate budgets and allocate resources. They provide you with a consistent project documentation process, which can then be archived and retrieved to inform future planning. Included is a risk log and the process you’ll use for change management to avoid delays.

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