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Ask a PM: How to Get Proper Estimates

LiquidPlanner

How do you deal with a team that refuses to estimate how long tasks will take? Estimating can be done in several solid ways, and frankly, it sounds as if your colleagues don’t know how to estimate properly or are scared to give you the timescales that pop into their heads. It is difficult to estimate when the task is too big.

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No more initial estimates? NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Kiron Bondale

You are assigned to manage a project and before you or your team have had an opportunity to start to chip away at the looming mountain of uncertainty, you get put on the spot to provide a cost or schedule estimate by your project sponsor or some other stakeholder. Sometimes we see an oscillation between these outcomes. No be there.

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Workload Analysis: Steps, Examples & Tools

ProjectManager.com

Workload analysis is part of the larger workload management and is an ongoing process throughout the execution of the project. Workload analysis comes into play most with two scenarios: optimizing current business processes and planning new projects. Learn more When Should You Use Workload Analysis?

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Adopting Agile is an Exercise in Change Management

LiquidPlanner

Based on the classroom exercises, you’re excited to try new concepts and apply the magic cure-all that will solve all waterfall-based project problems. Everyone is already Agile, and they don’t need a formal process like stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint reviews or retrospectives. Adopting Agile is an Exercise in Change Management.

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Workshop Design with ChatGPT

Scrum.org

I want you to create a schedule, name the exercises, and point to sources where I can learn more about the suggested activities. Can you be more specific regarding the exercises for lessons 4 to 7? Please suggest what kind of exercises best advance the respective lesson topic for the students.

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How to Create a Work Breakdown Structure

Project Risk Coach

One of the reasons that project managers fail to properly estimate their projects is they miss key activities when developing their schedules. One of the most powerful tools for this exercise is the work breakdown structure (WBS) which is a hierarchical decomposition of the scope of work. Why does this happen?

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60 ChatGPT Prompts for Scrum Masters and Product Owners

Scrum.org

Explain the benefits and drawbacks of different estimation techniques. Design a Sprint board considering the following [your process information]. Your suggestions include surveys, talks, interviews, team meetings, games, exercises, or other parties like stakeholders or line managers, and other useful practices.

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