Remove Cadence Remove Development Team Review Remove Engineering Remove Estimate
article thumbnail

Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

While profit is not their goal, usually an economic impact figure can be estimated for the outcomes they aim to achieve. For example, if the reporting engine we were asked to use does not support the data volume needed, we may need to stop using it, select a replacement, test it and implement that solution instead.

Risk 145
article thumbnail

A modern (and easy) guide to the 5 agile ceremonies

Planio

Agile ceremonies are the fuel that keeps your development team moving forward. Agile ceremonies get abandoned when teams stop seeing the value in them. (And Sprint review ceremony. Each morning, team members discuss what they worked on yesterday, what they’re doing today, and what’s blocking them from moving forward.

Agile 88
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

New PM, New Choices

Leading Answers

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. Consider the process of designing a new car or home.

article thumbnail

Release planning and predictable delivery

Scrum.org

Once you accept this, and quality becomes non-negotiable, your Dev e lopers can focus on creating usable increments of working software. Without a regular cadence of delivery of working software any belief that you will get a usable increment is misguided at best. Professional Developers create working software.

article thumbnail

Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Project Success Assessment - A checklist for assessing the processes for project success.

article thumbnail

Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 2 – Agile Features & Capabilities in MS Project / Project PPM

MPUG

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. 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.

Agile 40
article thumbnail

What’s Worse Than Not Automating Your Software Delivery Pipeline?

Leading Agile

Reviewing code by eyeballing it to ensure compliance with coding standards. 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 has to satisfy the needs of all stakeholders without requiring a halt for manual review and approval.