Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Perhaps you’ve read many blog posts about how horrible SAFe is, or how useless estimation is, or what the optimal size of a team is. What if you recommend teams to stop estimation altogether and cause financial damage compared to when you wouldn’t have recommended this? You may have the practical experience to support your beliefs.

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Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

wrote The Mythical Man Month, he provided project managers with the valuable caution which later was named Brooks’ Law: “ Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later “ While there are always exceptions, this statement is generally true. as well as a number of other online book stores).

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

A good project management book. the truth is that project management books are a more in-depth way to get inside the minds of the best managers out there. We combed through best-seller lists, spoke with veteran PMs, and read a ton to put together this list of the best project management books for upgrading your career in 2020.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

She has written five books on project management including Communicating Change, Collaboration Tools for Project Managers, Handbook of People in Project Management, Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World and Customer-Centric Project Management. Related: Top Project Management Conferences of 2019. Jason Westland.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

There is a discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. To be informed how to estimate in this broad range of domains, problems, and impacts — education, experience, and skill are needed. illities are a waste.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2022

What about a forward estimation if stories are generated just in time? For example, does UX research for the next thing while developers deliver the current? Do you refer to OKRs in general or to OKRs as you define them in your OKR book? How to deal with bug fixes and the sorts? OKRs drive your backlog. Allan Kelly on Twitter.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

The lack of predictability of software development is the key to understanding the new model. Why is software so unpredictable. All software development is product development. In lean manufacturing, we can optimise the production of pre-developed products through the nature of its predictable production.

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Herding Cats

MAY 17, 2017

Agile software development is a software development process. Herding Cats: How to Talk About Estimates. Herding Cats: Book of the Month. It is popular to state that Agile IS Risk Management - but that is not correct. Risk Management is a process as well. But Agile alone is not Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

It was mathematically based, converting equations in books to Fortran using pre-written parts from the IBM Scientific Subroutine Package. Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. Software-intensive systems include: . large-scale heterogeneous systems, †.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2020

I believe Agile software development is more than ready to use new forecasting techniques to express uncertainy to narrow their decision-making process. These new forecasting techniques are not based on estimations but historical data, thus saving time on the part of developers to focus on what they do best.

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MPUG

APRIL 29, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Oliver Gildersleeve’s Analogous and Parametric Estimating Schedule Template webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. The new schedule template covers both analogous and parametric estimating features. Kyle: More on Oliver. Oliver: Thank you Kyle.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 24, 2016

I've started reading Vasco's book #NoEstimates and will write a detailed deconstruction. Let's start with some graphs that have been around and their misinformation that forms the basis of the book. If the project was over budget, was the needed budget estimate correct? The book needs a professional editor.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 15, 2017

I posted some comments on the #NoEstimates book awhile back. Why estimates don't work - Carmen is assigned a project that will make or break the company. This is a classic example used in the book of making seriously bad management decisions. . This quote is misused to suggest that estimating can't be done.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2022

He is also the co-author of the Kanban Guide and author of the books “Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability” and “When Will It Be Done?”. How do you estimate the impact on the throughput when adding new people to the team? And from scientific research to software development. So, What’s The Verdict?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 23, 2017

In the estimating business, like many things in project management, there is confusion about principles, practices, and processes. A good estimation approach should provide estimates that are within 25% of the actual results, 75% of the time. The book this statement comes from is Conte, S. Dunsmore and V.Y.

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Teamweek

MAY 17, 2024

For example, a software development team needs to create a new mobile application. When team members are double-booked, one of the tasks must wait, leading to delays and lower productivity. However, creating accurate estimations is something many project managers struggle with. Set your hourly time estimate.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. There is no discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. illities are a waste.

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Herding Cats

MAY 9, 2017

It seems of late there is a campaign in the software development community, especially in the agile community where ignorance is a virtue. The book The Death of Expertise is a continuation of a paper by the author in the Federalist. This book explains how the death of expertise has now crept into most corners of must domains.

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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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Herding Cats

MARCH 3, 2018

Our project management, software development world the more so. . The classic that happened yesterday was yet another misuse of the Standish Report, long debunked, to claim estimates p[rovide no value, in fact, estimates are the source of the reason why projects fail. Related articles. IT Risk Management.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 5, 2022

What about a forward estimation if stories are generated just in time? For example, does UX research for the next thing while developers deliver the current? Do you refer to OKRs in general or to OKRs as you define them in your OKR book? How to deal with bug fixes and the sorts? OKRs drive your backlog.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 10, 2017

I've been working in the probabilistic estimating business for a decade or two. . One of the seminal books that started it all is Short-Term Forecasting. As well - of course - is the nonsense that Forecasts are not estimates, popularized by #NoEstimates advocates. The Flaw of Averages and Not Estimating. Do The Math.

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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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Herding Cats

MAY 23, 2016

Estimating is part of all decision making in the presence of uncertainty. Accuracy and precision are two primary attributes of all estimates. We all know estimates are hard. But there are lots of hard things in the development of enterprise software. Estimating is part of all engineering disciplines.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Here's a collection of downloadable books that can be the resources needed to address these problems. These books and other contain fundamental definitions, rules, and theorems that provide a foundation that renders probability an important tool for evaluating scientific and engineering systems. Introduction to Probability.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The presentation " Quantifying the Impact of Agile Practices ," Larry MacCherone at the RallyOn 2013 Conference, presents some results on estimating impacts. The chart below shows 4 estimating types, including No Estimates, the sample sizes for each type and the components that make up the estimating types.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. What is a Team?

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

This book is a very useful even if you're not using SAFe, there is invaluable content in the book, including many pages on estimating. As well as this book, at the Agile Meetup Charles provided a link to an Agility Guide and the site EB Management with lots of resources on Empirical Management.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Of course, all three of these are operating in the presence of uncertainty and therefore require estimates to be made. Estimates of the aleatory and epistemic uncertainties that create risk to the delivered Value need to be handled. All three pieces of information are needed.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. Product Backlog Refinement And Estimation. Is estimated by the Scrum Team. Question 16: Person-hour Estimations.

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Epicflow Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

This article is inspired by the webinar featuring Epicflow co-founder Jan Willem Tromp and professor Mario Vanhoucke based on his latest book “The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”. Though this technique has numerous benefits, it also has some drawbacks.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 24, 2016

One of the escape clauses of #Noestimates is to re-label Forecasting as NOT Estimating , It is forecasting, based on empirical data. This is in comparison for estimating purpose for a theoretical model that produces data, parametric from empirical or theoretical models that produce data. All are estimates about some outcome.

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Alan Parker Blog

MAY 20, 2024

The concept was popularised by Edward Yourdon in his book “Death March: The Complete Software Developer’s Guide to Surviving ‘Mission Impossible’ Projects.” Yourdon’s definition resonated deeply within the software development community, where unrealistic deadlines and resource shortages are all too familiar.

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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. Or if I just need a high level estimate, we can take time to actually do the planning later.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Project resource management : Toggl Plan’s team Availability Overview lets you visualize team members’ bookings and capacity over a given period to assign the best available resources to the project. Project progress overview : Track a project’s progress by comparing the estimated vs actual effort spent on tasks.

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Planio

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Step 7: Estimate time and effort for each task. The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK–one of our must-read project management books ) defines the five phases of the project management process as: Initiation. Defines communication channels and expectations between developers and project stakeholders. Ask an expert.

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MPUG

JANUARY 4, 2021

For at least twenty years and counting, the world around us has become more and more software driven, and, as a result, more digital. Electric vehicles are about 50% software, in terms of value, whereas fossil fuel cars are mostly hardware. Banks have essentially been software developing organizations for a long time.

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