Scrum.org

JANUARY 1, 2024

It's the Scrum master's most valuable event, aiming to enhance the adoption of Scrum by continuously refining the team's working dynamics. The switch from 'how many points' to 'how many items' can be a game-changer in simplifying estimation setting realistic expectations, and achieving consistent, sustainable progress.

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

These conversations guarantee the team can deliver customer value within the given constraints while contributing to the organization’s sustainability. Product Backlog refinement : The Product Owner and Developers collaborate to refine, estimate, and order the Product Backlog items based on value, risk, and dependencies.

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

This started an interesting conversation and a pattern that we see commonly emerged; teams not crafting a Sprint Goal during the Sprint Planning event. After all, in Scrum, it is the Sprint Goal that should be the focus for the Development Team, not hitting a particular velocity or getting a set of Product Backlog items done.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2023

By allowing the team to address their challenges independently, the Scrum Master can focus on facilitating the Scrum events, removing true impediments, and creating a supportive environment for continuous improvement. This means the Scrum Master should not cancel the Sprint Retrospective (or other Scrum events) to “save time”.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 15, 2019

A few months ago we looked at how teams can optimize flow across the Sprint boundary , a technique which is founded on their ability to make limited and sustainable commitments. Rather, it is re-estimated on the Product Backlog to indicate how much is believed to remain. ." - Bryant H.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2022

When people believe Products are best developed in a linear sequence, they will take great pains to estimate when each skillset is needed and for how long. This is the bulk of the work and can carry on indefinitely — work toward being self-funded and sustainable. In companies that organize staff into Shared Services departments (e.g.,

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Development Team members must be self-organizing and cross-functional, to the point that they will repeatedly and sustainably create a valuable product increment -- fit for immediate release -- in no more than one calendar month. Any user stories which have not been completed ought to be re-estimated and returned to the Product Backlog.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Perhaps our most important "take-away" was that providing a range of estimates is not necessarily a matter of being vague. This simple and very precise estimate would therefore appear to be unreliable, and likely to prove inaccurate should it be employed. It will need to be re-estimated and returned to the Product Backlog.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

They hypothesized that estimating the cards and doing burn-down charts would increase throughput. Misconception 3: Agile Transformation is a One-Time Event Another popular misconception is that Transformation is a one-time event. When we do this, we seem to be able to deliver and test frequently. It has a starting place.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 10, 2018

As time went on, it became clear that there was no connection between the points and the team’s delivery capacity, value generation, sustainable pace, or quality. “Pointing” was nothing more than an activity that had been dictated to the team; an event to be checked off on the Sprint schedule. They were just numbers.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This uncertainty could be driven by changing customer demands, seasonal events, resource availability or even by a lack of sufficient historical data or analogous projects for estimation. These heroics are not sustainable. These traditional tools are also subpar when it comes to project estimation.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Scrum is a framework that consists of accountabilities, artifacts, and events that helps in creating and sustaining complex products. As a Product Owner, do you participate in story grooming or user story splitting and estimation discussion? Well-refined stories help the developers in estimating and forecasting.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 21, 2022

The core responsibilities of RTE include facilitating the ART processes and events, assisting the teams in delivering value, etc. Implement feedback- DevOps helps in sustainability by receiving faster feedback . Through IP Iteration we have dedicated time for PI events. It also provides an opportunity for continuous learning.

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Agilemania

MARCH 30, 2021

” At that time, organizations used to estimate three years between a validated business need and an actual application in production. Agile processes promote sustainable development. Even today, they organize agile events, support affiliate groups, and promote agile ideology in organizations. Author's Bio.

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Agilemania

MARCH 3, 2022

Mentor teams on Agile approaches to estimation, planning, and story mapping. Enterprise Agile Coach: Enterprise agility is crucial if a business wants to keep up with the current marketplace or sustainably compete in the new one. Host large events/open dialog sessions to promote agility. Take care of delivery hurdles.

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

Project Estimation. How do you come up with project estimation in Agile world? Project estimation is hard not only in Agile but traditional methods as well. Most rigorous planning and estimation in the traditional project management method don’t make for on time delivery in 90% of project cases.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

Project Estimation. How do you come up with project estimation in Agile world? Project estimation is hard not only in Agile but traditional methods as well. Project estimation is hard not only in Agile but traditional methods as well. Estimation for short run projects is always more accurate than for long projects.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I’d like to consider the following in this post: Sustainable Pace. Sustainable Pace. 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. Note: sustainable is good; sustained is not.).

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2019

If only we would create more accurate estimates…. Wasn’t there a different way of developing, delivering, and sustaining complex products?”. How to facilitate Scrum events? Check out our agenda for upcoming events. A Gantt-chart, no need to read the details…. I found my answer in a book by Rini van Solingen.

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Epicflow Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Risk Management Complexity: How to Mitigate Them Effectively A risk is an event or condition that can have either a positive or negative impact on a project. Risks can arise in any aspect of project management, whether during planning and estimation, execution, or communication within teams, across groups, or with stakeholders.

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MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

When Inaccurate Estimation Results in Delayed Delivery. Estimates are often inaccurate because they are made in absolute numbers. One way to resolve this challenge is to use story points for estimation. Story points are relative estimation techniques and have unitless measure. This is depicted in the below figure.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

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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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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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is a probability of an event. First, let's establish a principle.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

You want to learn faster than the competition and turn this advantage into marketable products and services, thus contributing to the organization’s sustainability. At a later stage, typical events, such as Sprint Reviews, also work well by demonstrating what value the Scrum Team created for them.

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Scoro

JANUARY 6, 2025

Talk to employees to estimate task durations and adjust workloads to avoid bottlenecks or delays. Here’s how to incorporate finances into project resource management: Check labor and external costs : Use historical project data to develop an accurate project cost estimate that accounts for both internal and external costs.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Estimation is part of project management. . The most important estimates for the project manager are related to time and cost. . Since it is easier to estimate small tasks, these estimates are often calculated and performed as point estimates, for example, a task will take 3 days. All that is needed is to know.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

Organizational governance supports the different value-creation strategies to integrate sustainable growth as it aligns with the company's success, compliance framework, and ethical standards. Ultimately, if there were no happy customers, businesses would struggle.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 26, 2023

Another example of ‘remarkable’ comes from my former boss, the entrepreneur and CEO, Ben Chodor, who went the extra mile by “starting a practice of sending thank-you notes to each client after signing a contract or hosting an event.”

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2018

If there is no fit among the activities, there is no distinctive strategy and little to sustain the strategic deployment process. 3] Strategic fit among the various systems components and the business processes they support is fundamental not only to competitive advantage but also to the sustainability of that advantage.

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Epicflow Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sustainability requirements Sustainability involves electrification and decarbonization efforts that in turn require investments and can essentially increase the product costs. Risk management being an integral part of project management involves predicting all possible risk-bearing events and planning responses to them.

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The Squad Report

APRIL 26, 2018

Are resources split between sustaining work and project work so you split them 50/50? Tip #1 Allocation Tip #2 Effort vs Duration Tip #3 Collecting Data Tip #4 PPM Tools Tip #5 People are People too Tip #1 - Allocation How do you determine what allocation to use when planning resources on projects? What about overhead?

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This document outlines an approach to support program and project teams in developing effective integrated execution plans for weapons systems and subsystems and component acquisition, modification, and sustainment. Most IMPs in development programs include Events for major design reviews such as PDR or CDR. Identify Events.

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Teamweek

MARCH 8, 2024

Doesn’t support manual time input from calendar events. The Outlook and Google Calendar import option for creating or starting time entries based on calendar events. You can contact support for an Enterprise plan tailored to your business needs. Time Tracking Fully automated time tracker. No in-app Pomodoro timer.

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Teamweek

MARCH 5, 2024

Doesn’t support manual time input from calendar events. The Outlook and Google Calendar import option for creating or starting time entries based on calendar events. You can contact support for an Enterprise plan tailored to your business needs. Time Tracking Fully automated time tracker. No in-app Pomodoro timer.

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Scoro

MAY 15, 2024

It can also help you set more accurate cost estimates in the future. Example Say you’ve agreed to design a website for a client and estimated it would take about 50 hours. So, your initial estimate needs to be as accurate as possible. That’s 10 extra hours of work that will reduce your profit margin.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Within your history, you can print or download a transcript and your certificates of completion, including the one for today’s event. A leader job is to create a reason where a stewardship is primarily focused with respect to sustainability. Next is tailor the delivery approach based on context. That is also remaining same.

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