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Team workload management: How to avoid your team feeling overwhelmed

Planio

Define your scope, break it down into manageable tasks, and assign them to your team. How do you engage and get the most out of your underperformers? So, what’s the secret to maintaining your heavy workload without your team feeling overwhelmed? Team vs. personal workload management. Workload management.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

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. Chakraborty and K.

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Skills Mismatch | What Is It & How to Bridge the Gap

Teamweek

Understanding this mismatch is key to ensuring your team’s talents are used effectively and your business thrives. Continuous investment in employee development (onboarding programs, ongoing training, fostering a learning culture) is vital to prevent mismatches. Skills mismatches cost organizations billions of dollars worldwide.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

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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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

This is simply good process development and management. Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

This is simply good process development and business management. Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy, since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. And the practices are not connected to any principle.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Herding Cats

If, for example, a project manager believes a member of his or her team is a fast and effective worker, each time that team member works fast and effectively or is told by a colleague about the work that has been done fast and effectively, the project manager will consider his or her belief to be well-founded.