Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

What is the optimal size of a team? Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? Is scaling always a bad idea? Of all the impediments that a team faces, which is the one to focus on first?

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Teamweek

MAY 17, 2024

Project productivity measures how efficiently and effectively teams complete tasks and reach goals. In this article, you will learn nine ways to increase project productivity and how Toggl Plan and Toggl Track can help you do it. Project productivity is a metric that shows how successfully teams work and achieve project goals.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2021

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. 19 Product Owner Interview Questions on the Product Backlog, Refinement, Forecasts, and Estimates. What items need to be split?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2021

One of our goals is to increase velocities across all our teams by X%. Marc Andreessen’s adage that “Software is eating the world” is becoming the differentiator for Industries that were previously thought to be more manual. . 77% practice Agile Development. 77% practice Agile Development. Have you heard this?

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Whether you are just starting out, developing your project manager resume, or a seasoned professional, mastering the Project Management Buzzwords is non-negotiable. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e.,

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 13, 2019

In this article, we share some of the main reasons for failure according to project leaders at IBM, Microsoft, GE Oil & Gas, Bühler Group, ExxonMobil, PMI, and other organizations. Poor Project Planning. Over 50% of our respondents mentioned lack of proper planning and estimates to be among the biggest challenges.

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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. In most cases, project managers aren’t the functional manager of project team members, and it isn’t always clear what priorities have been set. Protect all assets. Lead to a great outcome.

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

You may have stellar skills and a fantastic team, but neither helps that sinking feeling when you have to ask a client for a deadline extension on a project. 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. You’re not alone.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2020

They advise us on our driving habits when the road conditions are bad on our commute to work. I believe Agile software development is more than ready to use new forecasting techniques to express uncertainy to narrow their decision-making process. I believe we can use this definition in Agile software development.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Do you want to get this article in your inbox? As somebody hiring for a Scrum Team, you need to determine for yourself what works for your organization — which is a process, not a destination. A Scrum Master’s principal objective should be to remove themselves from daily operations by enabling the Scrum Team to be self-organizing.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 13, 2022

Shifting priorities isn’t always a bad thing. Software like LiquidPlanner makes it easy to create an action plan against your goals. LiquidPlanner helps you estimate timelines by listing tasks and then applying ranged estimations. In fact, it may well yield better outcomes. This is the time of year to assess and find out!

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 31, 2022

This ended up being a huge issue because they wouldn’t cooperate with my team and I. Poor planning, lack of visibility and the unknown frequently result in unexpected surprises that negatively impact project progress and outcomes. . Early and detailed planning is the key to ensuring your team can avoid unexpected surprises.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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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. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 13, 2022

Talking about the problems before they happen sets your team up to collaborate on and pursue solutions before things go south. This plan outlines how often the team will check in on progress, who is responsible for which tasks, and what to do if a project’s timelines start to lag. Your first instinct is just to cancel it, right?

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Likewise, we live in a world where the whole organizational approach to remote teams is finally changing. The distributed team concept is getting so endorsed that 50% of all of the US Workforce will be completely remote by the year 2020. Agile Project Management for Distributed Teams. Make your team more Agile.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I have personally worked in PMOs that were not supported at the top, where executives pushed their own projects through with hand-picked project teams outside of the PMO. Bad structure and misalignment leads to PMO failure, every time. You will be robbing your PMO team of the practical experience that will lead to success.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Project estimation is the backbone of proper project planning and execution. Using the right project estimation techniques helps managers predict the time, cost, and resources needed to complete a project. What is parametric estimating? What is parametric estimating? Analogous and parametric estimating.

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Planio

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That means communicating with their team and project stakeholders , setting realistic requirements, running meetings , assigning tasks , and managing time, budgets, and expectations. to keep their teams organized, document lessons learned, and manage tasks from start to finish. How to develop your project leadership skills.

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Planview

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, many digital transformation initiatives struggle to deliver the expected financial value, with more than half lagging behind original estimates, according to a Gartner survey of CIOs. VSM builds connections between siloed teams within an organization. Value stream management (VSM) changes that.

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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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MPUG

JANUARY 4, 2021

In the following two-part article, I will argue that: ‘ Agile ’ is not agile. opposite approaches to scheduling in one project in Part 2 of this article. your project team). For at least twenty years and counting, the world around us has become more and more software driven, and, as a result, more digital.

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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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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Scrum is a lightweight agile framework that encourages team members to work on a problem together. It helps teams to gather knowledge from experience and learn self-organization through working on an issue. . Scrum encourages teams to improve by reflecting on their success and losses. . The Scrum Master.

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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. Educating Team Members.

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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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Planio

APRIL 22, 2024

According to some estimates , PMs spend 90% of their time communicating with team members, sponsors, and stakeholders. Easier to share information with teams and stakeholders. There’s no need for fancy software or hours of reading time, instead, an executive summary is a quick update that’s read in a matter of minutes.

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Alan Parker Blog

MAY 20, 2024

Despite their ominous nature, Death March projects are alarmingly common in many organisations, often arising from a mix of over-ambition and poor planning. The concept was popularised by Edward Yourdon in his book “Death March: The Complete Software Developer’s Guide to Surviving ‘Mission Impossible’ Projects.” The misfits.

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Proofhub

JUNE 12, 2023

As a project leader, mastering this art empowers you to inspire your team, navigate complex challenges, and drive projects to triumphant success. You can develop these traits to improve your project leadership skills. Visionary: Exceptional project leaders inspire team alignment with a clear vision.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Put a rough project cost estimate together and send it to the client for approval–poof, you’ve got a winning project budget. Project estimate vs. project budget. A project estimate is an approximation, while a project budget is more of a financial plan. Further Reading: Project Cost Estimating: How to Nail Your Estimates.

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Leading Agile

MAY 28, 2018

Velocity is the most widely used-and-abused metric associated with Agile software development. How are things going in your software development organization? ” We just estimate the time for each User Story and convert that into Story Points. You start with a time estimate and covert it to Story Points?

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 20, 2022

You don’t need me to tell you this is a bad habit to get into. Breaking tough work down this way and distributing across the team will enable you to do what you do best, oversee the project while encouraging and celebrating success. The best ones used ranged estimates to determine resource needs and predict outcomes.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In discussing the delivery capacity of a software development team, we can say “velocity” and everyone knows we mean the amount of work the team can complete, on average, in a given time interval , and we don’t mean, literally, va=v+v02. Estimated hours completed? It’s only a metaphor.

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Planio

APRIL 3, 2020

Poor planning is at the root of most project failures. In the most basic terms possible, a risk management plan is a document used by project managers to identify potential risks to the project, estimate the impact and the probability of them happening, and then define responses. When you fail to plan, you’re planning to fail.

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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. Melanie is here with team MPUG. Melanie: Hello welcome. With that, let’s start off.

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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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Workzone

MAY 24, 2019

Here are three reasons your team currently isn’t meeting their deadlines, and what you can do to eliminate these problems going forward. For instance, imagine your last software development project took 16 months to complete. The more data you have, the more confident you can be in your estimates. Method 3: Add reserves.

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