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

Scrum.org

Explanation of effort estimation and planning poker. Pokering a small and a large story, gives us two benchmarks for relative estimation of the whole PBL using the magic estimation technique. I purposely postponed the estimation during refinement to first keep focus on sharing knowledge and then on estimating the work.

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Professional Development Day 2022 – IGNITE!

International Institute for Learning

Estimating and Applying Points with Agile – How to apply, and when is it done? As early as most of us can recall, we estimate the size/magnitude/amount of effort to do something in time. Adaptive development frameworks commonly use points for estimating size based on complexity, not duration or hours. Tony Johnson.

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

Scrum.org

Explanation of effort estimation and planning poker. Pokering a small and a large story, gives us two benchmarks for relative estimation of the whole PBL using the magic estimation technique. I purposely postponed the estimation during refinement to first keep focus on sharing knowledge and then on estimating the work.

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5 Tips to Build a Harmonious Project Team in 2023

LiquidPlanner

While there are many excellent tools available, the things that keep drawing me back to LiquidPlanner are features like real-time scenario planning, its use of ranged vs. fixed estimation , and automated schedule updates. You can do this as a group or individually, whichever feels best for the team.

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How To Implement Lean Portfolio Management?

Agilemania

To synchronize and coordinate the planning and feedback loops, the leadership team makes choices at a fixed cadence that is followed by both the operations (the tasks they carry out) and the governance (the reviews they conduct). LPM operations. Convert new ideas into investment candidates that are linked to the strategic mission.

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A Word on Velocity

Leading Agile

It is important to understand that the usefulness of velocity as a predictor of a team’s future story capacity in a sprint is an emergent property of a persistent team following an estimate and execute cycle; the key implication of this being that stability of velocity is what’s desirable, regardless of the magnitude.