Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

When people make such statements, they usually mean that they have trained product owners and a proficient Scrum master, and their team consistently follows the cadence of sprint planning, daily stand-ups, interviews, and retrospectives. They believe or have been told that by doing these things, they will achieve the desired outcomes.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Here are the Agile ceremonies that most teams use and why they’re essential: Sprint planning: These sessions are what initiate each sprint. Then, the development team works together to discuss each item and estimates how much effort will be required to complete them. Update user stories to properly estimate tasks.

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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. The product roadmap needs to be adapted to the learnings from running product experiments regularly in an appropriate cadence to meet that standard.

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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. Estimation. Decision-making.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

We thought that AI might initially come after simple office jobs. Once the initial answer is available, follow up with additional questions to guide the bot in a more suitable direction or to receive information on the rationale of the response from the LLM’s algorithm. A rough estimation of the budget required.

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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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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

Without resource management tools that let you allocate your budget accordingly, you could easily exceed your initial estimate. For example, without access to a dynamic timeline that you can adjust on the fly to account for shifts in scope or employee capacity, you might inadvertently pass an important deadline.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 13, 2018

We did our short-term planning last week and we came up with an idea of what work we would be able to complete in the next iteration or cadence. We bear down and set out to prove our initial plan was correct. What happens when the actual time to complete a piece of work differs from our estimate?

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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. On the one hand, the delivery team is not able to precisely estimate when it can deliver a release. It is really based on their own cost of deploying a new release from a vendor.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Cadence Software 71

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. On the one hand, the delivery team is not able to precisely estimate when it can deliver a release. It is really based on their own cost of deploying a new release from a vendor.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 5, 2018

Developers won’t discover their initial architectural assumptions were wrong until there’s no time or money left to make changes. 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.

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Scoro

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Progress monitoring: Regularly comparing your project’s pace to the initial plan to proactively identify and address issues. Break down projects into smaller tasks Breaking down a large project into more manageable tasks makes it easier to estimate how much time is needed, plan the project, and track its overall progress.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

The Scrum Guide characterizes the Sprint Planning as follows: Sprint Planning initiates the Sprint by laying out the work to be performed for the Sprint. A good Scrum team can handle that in ten to 30 minutes before moving on to the decomposition tasks and the initial planning of how the Developers intend to accomplish the work of the Sprint.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Roadmap planning is—like Product Backlog refinement—a continuous effort, just at an extended cadence. Having a committee of stakeholders deciding on product discovery and portfolio management is the most critical reason for agile product delivery initiatives’ failure.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. Here’s a breakdown of the typical project lifecycle and what project managers do at each stage: Initiation: Every project needs a “why.” But there’s a problem.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

We typically want to have those stories estimated, right? Maybe we’re great at doing user stories and estimation and kind of release planning level stuff. The challenge is I think it kind of hand wave over the fact that most organizations, at least initially, are products, or excuse me, projectized organizations, right?

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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

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. System of Delivery The “to be” operating model of the organization.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

A good team can handle that in ten to 30 minutes before moving on to the decomposition tasks and the initial planning of how the Development Team intends to accomplishing the work of the Sprint. Too much estimating: The Development Team estimates sub-tasks. Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum Team has variable Sprint cadences.

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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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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

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. And then what’s interesting is when you don’t get to support that you didn’t ask for in an effective way and your initiative fails, whose fault is it exactly?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Cost and schedule growth for federal programs is created by unrealistic technical performance expectations, unrealistic cost and schedule estimates, inadequate risk assessments, unanticipated technical issues, and poorly performed and ineffective risk management, all contributing to program technical and programmatic shortfalls. What is Risk?

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

They maybe estimate them using new story points, planning, poker, they burn them down, they produce a working test and increment of software at the end of every sprint. And he goes, how can I support this initiative? Their team, they have everyone and everybody necessary to be able to deliver the work that’s in the backlog.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

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. But there are people who are building tools, but they remember the competency of what’s being organized, structured and delivered is on a very different cadence. Add a bucket.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Ben Howard: So it is useful to us, and that might be changing some postcodes or changing some initials or zip codes, or actually deriving some new data. Power BI gets refreshed every month so it has a high cadence. So based upon somebody’s height, I could perhaps classify them into tall, medium or small.

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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 overhead of repeated team-forming affected delivery schedules by introducing delay into every initiative. Business Impact.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

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. So taking the knowledge areas and saying, here, initiating, here’s how you start. Then planning. It makes sense.

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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. Before you jump on the automation bandwagon, I suggest you consider two things: Be sure you understand what “all the things” really are; there may be more than you realize initially; and. Think it through.

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