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13 Reasons to Choose Agile Project Management Methods

LiquidPlanner

Robust agile estimation methods can improve quality by 250%. That’s largely down to consistent use of user stories, story points and breaking down stories into tasks with hour-based estimates. The work to estimate effectively requires teams to know a lot about what the task actually is.

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Map Your Route to Mastering Agile Fluency

Scrum.org

Without defining value, no agile transformation is possible. Once the value is defined and the teams starting to learn and deliver, the change isn't done yet. role of a product owner) to manage the value at that defined level (e.g., It all starts with focusing on value. In fact, it is never done. with a product backlog).

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Unpacking Agile Transformation: The System of Delivery

Leading Agile

Think about things like how we write user stories, how we estimate work, how we run planning cadences, how we deal with technical concerns, and how we measure done. How do we define, track, and report on our OKRs and KPIs? It’s about defining a reliable system that our organization can delegate into to achieve its goals.

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Overcoming the Roadblocks in Agile Backlogs

Leading Agile

The scope of each story needs to be clear enough that the teams can estimate the time required for each and complete them within the predetermined time box. Each story needs a clearly defined state of “done” to allow for progress and prevent technical debt. Additionally, the stories are poorly defined and give insufficient directive.

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Tips from the trenches: How to Start Up Three new Scrum teams Simultaneously.

Scrum.org

This exercise makes people share positive team experiences, helps them to define what their core power and drive is and what they need from a team to perform at their best. Explanation of effort estimation and planning poker. The goal was to synchronize the three teams so that they all got into the same cadence. Sprint planning.

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Tips from the trenches: How to startup three new Scrum teams simultaneously.

Scrum.org

This exercise makes people share positive team experiences, helps them to define what their core power and drive is and what they need from a team to perform at their best. Explanation of effort estimation and planning poker. The goal was to synchronize the three teams so that they all got into the same cadence. Sprint planning.

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Common Ground for a Conversation about Estimating

Herding Cats

Neil Killick posted a good question, what's the common ground for talking about estimates. All estimates have two attributes - accuracy and precision. The values of these two attributes are what those needing the estimates are after. That request comes from those asking for the estimate. 100M, 200M, 500M?