Kiron Bondale
APRIL 3, 2022
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.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
APRIL 10, 2023
Estimating for success Maybe best of all, Moore talks about range-based estimates – a topic I’m very interested in. Moore explains that estimates are biased towards the initial values because people don’t adjust their estimates again after making that initial decision. This book review first appeared in 2016.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 29, 2024
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.)
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 3, 2022
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. If your company has a standard risk management process, refer to that here. Be pragmatic though.
MPUG
JANUARY 8, 2024
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…. The estimation techniques they use are a deliberate trade-off between speed and accuracy.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 18, 2021
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.
MPUG
APRIL 2, 2020
can become an accurate estimating tool for top-down (Analogous) and bottom-up (Parametric) estimating. Unfortunately, the large majority of project managers estimate tasks with durations and update tasks by entering %-complete as reported by team members. Using a Schedule Template for Estimating. It’s not hard to do.
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