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Nine things to do in your Sprint Planning

Scrum.org

Discussions held during the Sprint Review can directly influence the next Sprint Planning. My current team and I have set up a specific “What’s Next” section in the Sprint Review agenda that directly influences the order of the Product Backlog to pull from in the coming Sprint Review. Reassess any remaining work from the last Sprint.

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Agile Principles - Become More Effective

Scrum.org

As a developer, if you wanted to do it you had to work covertly and build time into your estimates to improve things. It felt wrong at the time and only encouraged bad practices like estimate inflation and hiding certain types of work. We can take advantage of new tools and practices to save time, money and energy.

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The Fourth And Final Thing You Do To Prevent Value Delivery

Scrum.org

What had happened was simply that the team switched their estimation tools. Before, they, like the other teams there, used Story Points to estimate the effort of different backlog items. It’s also low energy. It’s also high energy. Their manager, not wanting to engage in conflict, asked me to have a look.

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The Agile Hangover

Scrum.org

Lots of passion, energy, and money were spent on the desire to improve. For many organizations, the ability to estimate upfront and then deliver on that estimate was always a source of frustration for IT and the business they served. Come from a place of humbleness and empathy.

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Resource allocation 101: How to manage your team’s resources

Planio

But what might influence your decision to allocate resources? Let’s look at some key factors that influence how you’ll choose where to allocate resources within your project: Project goals & objectives. Actionable steps to take: Start by reading the Planio Guide to Estimating Projects.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. COSMIC Software Estimation Approach,” Alain Abran, ICEAA Workshop, Portland Oregon, June 6?9, Estimating Probable System Cost,” Stephen A. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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How to Influence Personal Productivity of Your Team Members

ActiveCollab

This can create confusion, drain a lot of your energy and time and slow down the progress. The easiest way to keep track of the time each employee spends on their tasks is to encourage them to make their own Time Estimates for each task. It lets you group tasks by an assignee and sees estimated vs tracked time for each task.