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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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How to Estimate Any Software Problem

Herding Cats

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? What would be the evidence that we could make decisions in the presence of uncertanty without estimating the impacts and outcomes of those decisions? . Start here.

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Top Solutions to Project Failure – Epicflow Research Part 2

Epicflow Blog

Ken Stafford , an Independent Consultant at Ken Stafford Project Support Services, also talks about the perks of having a powerful project plan: “ Solid planning, [a] well defined critical path and controlled interfaces are so important as a base, but I have found they support, more than define, project success.”.

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Scrum Developer Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Scrum Developer Anti-Patterns. After covering the anti-patterns of the Scrum Master, the Product Owner, and the stakeholders, this article addresses Scrum Developer anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events and the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Developers in Scrum. Source : Scrum Guide 2020. .

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2022

ProjectManager.com

There will be breakout sessions on using project management tools and techniques to help with more accurate estimates, how to keep projects on track and on evaluation of project performance. What to Expect: Sessions focus on agility, software engineering and lean business. Global Scrum Gathering. AIPM National Conference.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

MPUG

We are a project management consulting company in the Baltimore Washington area. And there’s just a quote here from a consultant in the DC area that says, “Managing a project without metrics is like sailing a ship without a compass.” I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers.

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Development Team Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Development Team in Scrum. Source : Scrum Guide 2017. . TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns.