Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

When curating that pilot, it is tempting to tee it up in a way that controls for organizational context and all the messy variables that come with it. While this kind of “Agile laboratory” environment stems from good intentions (we certainly don’t want to set a team up for failure), it is not very useful from a hypothesis testing standpoint.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The degree is a balance between control and efficiency. Acceptable variances, reporting cadence, and status meetings are addressed in the plan. Team size is known, and the project duration can be time-boxed which simplifies estimating the project’s time and cost and monitoring its performance.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

Likewise, there are defined, repeatable IT projects that can (and have been) successfully managed using meticulous planning, detailed estimation, and formal change control procedures. Here, formal planning and estimation are difficult because we don’t know what we will encounter.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

Estimate task time and effort. But to correctly estimate start and end times , you first need to know what needs to be done at a high level, what resources you’ll require, and a basic outline of their order. At a minimum, you should know what type of person you’re basing your estimate on. Quality control. Project scope.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2016

Elliott could provide answers to these questions to our clients, when he suggests that estimates are worthless. . What's your Estimate to Complete and Estimate at Completion for those working demos for all the Capabilities I need to start down the path to breakeven for the software I'm paying you to build? Related articles.

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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. Why is it hard for managers to empower teams they want control? Why do they want control? We say they control the velocity with the backlog, right?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release paradigm, is a flow-based approach. The variability of the development work is minimized through the planned cadence. Focusing on meeting the needs of the customer or market is key to success in the Cadence approach.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Apparently, there is a difference in the inspect & adapt cadence when product strategy and Sprint Backlog are compared to each other. Contrary to popular belief in traditional command & control organizations, product roadmaps are subject to continuous planning. Read More : “ Creating Personas.”.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 4, 2022

They also helped to show the team exactly how projects were progressing compared to time and cost estimations. The template below allows you to add the ‘estimated hours’ for each task and the ‘actual hours’ worked. This is done by adding time estimates to each task and comparing that to the user’s daily working hours.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

Project Managers constantly seek ways to eliminate or control risk, variance, and uncertainty. Attempting to control these variances outside their natural boundaries is a waste (Muda). The answers to each of these questions require making estimates in the presence of uncertainty. Hope is Not a Strategy.

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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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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

We invite you to join in today with questions and comments by using the chat feature in the GoToWebinar control panel. In addition to that, as well as the PMI standards plus to lead the way for the immediate processes, the techniques when it comes to things like estimating or requirements management and things along those lines.

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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

Without resource management tools that let you allocate your budget accordingly, you could easily exceed your initial estimate. With external events outside of your control — such as a global pandemic or supply chain issues — it can be easy to lose control within your team.

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Digite

MARCH 17, 2017

As the PI has 5 iterations with multiple teams working in cadence to achieve a common vision, it is important for these teams to assemble and plan out the course of action for the entire PI duration. It distributes planning and control of work to the teams who are ultimately responsible for delivering. And that is a good thing!

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Open Loop / Closed Loop Project Controls - project management is a closed loop control system. Parametric Project Monitoring and Control - Earned Value is an approach to Performance measurement for monitoring and controlling the progress of software development projects. What is Risk?

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Leading Agile

JUNE 5, 2018

We’ll cover version control, dependency management, and run management. This will be the version control system. This gives them confidence that the development team knows what they’re doing, so they won’t need to ask for revised estimates every day for the next umpteen months. Where Were We? One more wrinkle.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

It includes the budgets assigned to scheduled control accounts and the applicable indirect budgets. This is the basis of the Agile Product Roadmap and Product Release Plan (either cadence or capability based). Five Estimating Pathologies and Their Corrective Actions. Is the character of the problem determined precisely?

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deloyed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. But, our on-prem customers may take new releases as late as once in 3 months only – and we have little control over that. It is really based on their own cost of deploying a new release from a vendor.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deployed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. But, our on-prem customers may take new releases as late as once in 3 months only – and we have little control over that. It is really based on their own cost of deploying a new release from a vendor.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

They hypothesized that estimating the cards and doing burn-down charts would increase throughput. That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. Allowing some compensating controls to emerge to deal with unresolved dependencies.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

The roles, the ceremonies, the artifacts, the cadences, all those different things that we model as implementation details. Are we doing story point estimating or are we using planning poker? It happened with RUP, it happens with SAFe, it happens with Scrum, it happens with everything. Is there a product owner? Are we doing reviews?

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Maybe we want our leaders to be less command and control. It says, it basically ranks you as to whether you’re logical or emotional controlling or non-controlling. And so red is logical controlling blue is emotional, controlling white is logical. Non-con controlling. We want things to be fun.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

If you have any questions during today’s presentation, please send those over at any time using the chat question box on the go to webinar control panel. Power BI gets refreshed every month so it has a high cadence. Click the “My Account” button and then click on the transcript link. We have the Power BI Gateway.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

I questioned why there were so many controls and regulations. Now, let’s talk about why estimating in hours is absolutely critical for what they’re responsible for and what cannot be done without it. No controls, no accountability. But it turns out, those rules were actually quite important.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

If you have any questions during today’s presentation please send those over at any time using the chat question box on the go to webinar control panel. You’re going to see this coming out at a very fast cadence. A lot of times I like to have fun, certainly in doing estimating. Add a bucket. Thanks Barbie.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

” To be really clear, the governance model here is shifting from controlling handoffs and accountability for artifacts to getting the organization to focus on the flow of value. All those can become very clear in — what the state of the work is, who needs to be involved, what the cadence of the meetings are.

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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. The first step has to be to bring the delivery process under control and measurement.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. An unattended CI/CD pipeline requires all environments to be built on demand based on configuration scripts that are maintained under version control alongside the application code and test code. But only a few.

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