MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

An example of this type can be the Scrum framework. It’s usually based on a cadence. As shown in the above figure, there is no regular timeboxed iteration, but incremental delivery can happen in cadence. When Inaccurate Estimation Results in Delayed Delivery. To utilize story points, estimate the tasks (i.e.,

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

As the world of business increases in complexity, it will take more than user stories, estimation, and OKRs to build a trustworthy system that management can delegate into. But basically agile small teams working together are close to the surface. But if managers want a trustworthy system, it’ll be up to them to create it.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 13, 2018

Scrum calls the list the Product Backlog.) Fortunately, contemporary lightweight software delivery methods based on time-boxed iterations (like Scrum) or continuous flow (like Kanban) include mechanisms to handle unplanned work gracefully. They have a plan for completing the items on the list. There will be stress. Cognitive Bias.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Open Loop / Closed Loop Project Controls - project management is a closed loop control system. A steering target is established, actions are taken, variances are assessed, corrective actions are taken to close the loop. RFETS was a nuclear bomb manufacturing plant, built in 1951, operating until 1989, and closed in 2005.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

I wasn’t around when things like XP and Scrum were invented, but I have been lucky enough to spend time with many of the original signers of the Manifesto. We pull the customer close. They hypothesized that estimating the cards and doing burn-down charts would increase throughput. Even if you are doing Scrum well.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

Old ways of working won’t solve it, and simply implementing practices like Scrum, DevOps, FinOps, or ProOps are not sufficient to create the organizations we need for the changes we must make. So, who is responsible for closing that gap? We agree with that, don’t we? Our goals and their goals may not be aligned.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

You’re going to see this coming out at a very fast cadence. That is a best practice is to be as close to the customer or the person who is actually viewing and defining what is the stakeholder that I want or what I’m representing. We want to keep them as close to the team that’s building. Add a bucket.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

When I first started thinking through this idea, I was actually really thinking about the idea of practices because back in 2010, a little bit earlier than that, Jim Kundiff, the Scrum Alliance, and those guys were really popularizing the CSM certification, PMI was doing the PMI ACP or a lot of us were part of that. So think about scrum.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

High WIP levels and failure to recognize delivery capacity, identify scarce resources, and consider estimates led to intense pressure to deliver late in the project schedule. Zombie Scrum describes the impact on delivery teams. One of the roles or functions of the Product Manager is that of Product Owner, in the Scrum sense.

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