Herding Cats

MARCH 12, 2016

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?

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The project management plan (Plan) is a powerful tool. Plan Elements The Plan is like a book with three main sections: Execution Parameters establish how the project will be managed along with the approach, required lifecycle phases, and governance procedures. It describes how the project will be executed.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

These days, new project managers are exposed to conflicting guidance. When our projects undertake defined, repeatable work using technologies and approaches our organizations have experience in, then uncertainty and change rates are typically low and manageable. Here, traditional project management approaches work great.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

Move onto task management and list out milestones and steps. Estimate task time and effort. But like everything in project management, a project schedule needs to find the sweet spot between simple and complicated to be helpful. At a minimum, you should know what type of person you’re basing your estimate on.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

But what if you’re not entirely comfortable managing and running Agile ceremonies? Agile ceremonies — also known as Scrum ceremonies or just ‘events’ — are specific events that provide a structured framework for iterative software development processes. Working this way reduces the risk that you’re building the wrong software.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

Build a strong and diverse change management team to lead the effort. Engage key stakeholders early on in the process to gather input and buy-in. Be prepared to address and resolve any conflicts that may arise during the change process through effective conflict resolution strategies. Make the approach more agile.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. Meanwhile, some ideas have gained buzzword status in the process, causing the occasional collateral damage along the way. What product discovery part, you may think now.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Introduction: First, I am not writing this to be highbrow; besides technical and project management topics, I have enjoyed history and mythology for years. I recently watched an old Greek mythology movie from the early 80’s, and I had a revelation: the muses and project management.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Project reporting is the process of tracking, recording, and reviewing the ongoing status of a project. But there was a noticeable difference in how projects were managed when we started creating reports for the more complex projects. A project progress report can be created solely for your manager, your entire team, or your client.

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Planio

MARCH 20, 2020

While we’d love to say it’s the project management tool you use the truth is it’s something else: Communication. A 3-step process for how to make a communication plan that won’t let you down. A great project manager knows the true risks of miscommunication and plans accordingly. But why leave it up to chance?

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Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

IT Risk Management. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Herding Cats: Capabilities Release or Cadence Release. Estimating and Making Decisions in Presence of Uncertainty.

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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

A well-laid plan can go a long way in project management , as you have a clear roadmap that you and your team can follow. Yet you won’t always have the time or resources to build out a robust plan for every process, action, or workflow. Use Wrike’s project management templates to ensure your next project gets off to the right start.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

As the world of business increases in complexity, it will take more than user stories, estimation, and OKRs to build a trustworthy system that management can delegate into. But if managers want a trustworthy system, it’ll be up to them to create it. Why is it hard for managers to empower teams they want control?

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Digite

MARCH 17, 2017

The quote reads “There is no magic in SAFe except maybe for PI Planning” In this blog, I aim to take a closer look at the PI Planning ceremony and in the process maybe gain more clarity on why it is held in such high regard. The concern might add to the list of risks or require some re-planning or simply be informative.

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Herding Cats

JULY 27, 2017

We live in a golf course community , where our waste water is processed locally inside our area. The grass is green, the solid waste is hauled away for further processing, and we receive the benefit of lower costs. IT Risk Management. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 23, 2016

The Plan for the delivery of value is shown in the Product Roadmap and implemented in the Cadence Release Plan, or sometimes in the Capabilities Release plan. The need is defined in the Capabilities Based Planning process. . The notion of agile is the basis of all military process, not just 5 coders in the room with their customer.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

In this context, Kanban actually facilitates a “2-phase Commit” process about which more at the end of this post.). Based on these, there certainly are guidelines for you to follow about how to model your Kanban board so it matches your current business processes and helps you improve. At the other end as well, there can be two issues.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

In this context, Kanban actually facilitates a “2-phase Commit” process about which more at the end of this post.). Based on these, there certainly are guidelines for you to follow about how to model your Kanban board so it matches your current business processes and helps you improve. At the other end as well, there can be two issues.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. This category of the Product Owner theses addresses the meta-level of the Product Owner role and the Scrum process: The Product Owner embraces, shares, and communicates the product vision, representing the customer voice and internal stakeholders. Role of the Product Owner.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Creative features, successful product ideas, wild marketing stunts, full rebrands, or massive IT projects — none of them work without the project managers that tirelessly make sure everyone’s on the same page and making progress towards a shared goal. Assessing and mitigating project risks 7. But there’s a problem.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. They are attempting to advance the state of the art in work management predominately (but not only) in the area of knowledge work. Similarities.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

The Scrum Team may refine these items during this process, which increases understanding and confidence. Technical excellence is a prerequisite of any form of business agility; preserving this state is a continuous process that requires a steady and substantial investment. Too much estimating: The Developers even estimate sub-tasks.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

Managing Cost, Schedule, & Technical Performance Risk Is The Basis Of Good Project Management. Risk management is essential to the success of any significant project. The emerging risks that can be identified early in the project that impact the project later are often termed “known unknowns.”

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

And they’re counting on the fact that all of the planning processes, all the project management, or all the Agile or all whatever, is going to help them make promises, okay? We typically want to have those stories estimated, right? It’s not a dependency management problem. It’s not a commitment problem.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Project management terminology can be complicated. It doesn’t matter whether you’re working towards your PMP certification or simply managing projects casually in your organization, knowing core project management terms always helps. All Project Management Terms. Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

Managers are evil. But is it possible that there may be reasonable and rational behaviors behind the actions of those executives, managers, and people who obstruct what we’re trying to do? In fact, at conferences, we often talk about how managers are bad and executives are foolish people who want to derail the company.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM).

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

And you’ll hear us talk about the way that you deliver that is by designing your organization so that the governance — the way that we manage the flow of value through the organization and make economic trade-off decisions — is defined effectively. The first one is the one around risk, around scope rather.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like imagine if you’re a 30 year architect running a COBOL mainframe system doing a payments processing engine there where nothing can be off by a penny and you’re having all these problems and somebody comes along and says, man, if you were just doing daily standup meetings, everything would work out. He goes, yeah, I get it.

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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. When a nominally-agile process becomes established, teams fall into a rote pattern of grinding out a never-ending series of User Stories. Business Impact.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

He was not a program manager of engineered to order software intensive system of systems. This is the basis of the Agile Product Roadmap and Product Release Plan (either cadence or capability based). IT Risk Management. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects. Hayek was a social scientist.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Ben Howard’s session, Power BI for Business Users and Project Managers – Part 1: Introduction to the Power BI Suite, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may watch the live recording of this webinar at your convenience. Ben Howard: Brilliant.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

He’s an accomplished speaker, consultant and educator supporting the project management community for over 25 years. 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. There’s always a process. What needs to happen.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. Jeff: Here are our process groups.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves. The company wanted to automate their dispatching process. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Even better: It was the right process.

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