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Estimate at Completion: A Complete Guide + Template

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, I’ll explain what Estimate at Completion is for project managers, how to use it (because there are 4 different ways) and give you examples. Estimate at completion (EAC) in project management tells you how much the project will cost when the work is finished. What is the formula for estimate at completion?

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Capabilities Release or Cadence Release

Herding Cats

In the traditional project management world, that phrase is deliver as planned. . Agile developers like to toss that phrase around as an alternative to having a plan for the delivered value we'll replace planning and estimating with early and often delivery. So do we pick a Capabilities Release or a Cadence Release?

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Unlock the Power of the Project Management Plan

Velociteach

The project management plan (Plan) is a powerful tool. A good Plan reduces the likelihood of misunderstanding, conflict, and disappointment. Unfortunately, in the rush to start a project, insufficient time is often devoted to creating the Plan. Enterprise templates and prior Plans can serve as the starting point.

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Influencing the eternal optimism of a delivery team

Kiron Bondale

For those teams which use an iteration-based cadence for their delivery such as those who have implemented the Scrum framework there have multiple feedback loops to help them improve. Teams which don’t use feedback loops with their products and their processes should not consider themselves to be very agile.

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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. We might go far enough up the organization and address how we handle strategy articulation, budgets, product funding, and compliance.

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

Scrum.org

We planned this workshop just before the summer break to make sure we could inform (almost) all people impacted by this change. The three Product Owners, one for each team, shared their future plans by presenting their roadmaps and goals. We agreed to plan on a couple of time-slots during the day for them to work on those tasks.

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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. Encourage them to think of themselves as indispensable to the planning process. Schedule a demo today.

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