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Useless Agile Metrics

Scrum.org

Learn more about useless agile metrics, from individual velocity to estimation accuracy to utilization rates. ? Comparing velocities may lead to unhealthy competition and encourage teams to inflate estimates, also known as cooking the agile books. Leading by example is a powerful way to influence change.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

Proceedings from seminars and symposiums on general project management concepts. Proceedings from seminars and symposiums specializing in project management best practices. Improvement in estimating accuracy by a certain percentage or dollar value. Relationships with other professional societies. Graduate-level theses.

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How to Conduct Project Planning: An Overview Guide

Project Pulse Journal

Gauging their influence. The communication plan is influenced by PMBOK's communication management knowledge area and details project communications' what, when, how, and to whom. Regularly track expenses against this initial estimate, ensuring the project remains financially viable and up to date.

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Industry, Product, and Technical Knowledge: What Makes a Project Manager an Expert?

Epicflow Blog

PMs can use this knowledge to estimate the time needed for accomplishing tasks, order them, and allocate resources adequately. Take part in industry-related webinars, seminars, conferences, meetups, discussions, and events alike. Production Processes. Your career journey stage and your ambitions.

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Managing Projects in Education: Specific Challenges and Ways of Addressing Them

Epicflow Blog

Your education isn’t over when you graduate from a university: being a highly skilled specialist and a healthy personality requires lifelong learning that in turn involves courses, training sessions, seminars, educational projects, etc. Improper planning. The backbone of a successful project is thorough planning.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Five Immutable Principles of Project Success , PMI Spring Seminar, 2021, Austin TX. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate. Estimating and Reporting Agile Projects using the SRDR and Earned Value Management , PSM Users Group 2017, 12-16 June 2017, Crystal City, VA. Basis of Estimate Process.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

When we hear about software development disasters and then hear that estimates are to blame, and NOT Estimating will somehow reduce or prevent these disasters, think again. Each of the categories operates in the presence of uncertainty and requires that estimates be made about the probability, conseqeunce of the resutling risk.