Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Think about how you are going to run remote team meetings and workshops – it is different to holding meetings face-to-face. Change Management Workshop. $79. In 2021, Cisco estimated that 82% of consumer internet traffic was video. What you can do. Brush up on your virtual leadership skills. Recommended Training. What you can do.

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Planio

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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. To understand the work required, Rowan hosts a requirements workshop with IT and Customer Success team members.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2021

19 Product Owner Interview Questions on the Product Backlog, Refinement, Forecasts, and Estimates. Does this update change previous estimations? From my experience, this influences the readiness and availability of a Scrum Team to contribute to the refinement process effectively. The story is estimated by the team. (I

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2020

We held a series of workshops to upskill everyone and had kicked off strongly. I bought the discovery to the Product Owner, who was also a senior manager with a lot of influence in the organisation. We asked them to estimate how much of their time was being spent on support work. We had started well. They calculated 25%.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

While profit is not their goal, usually an economic impact figure can be estimated for the outcomes they aim to achieve. The activities' Doomsday Clock' and 'Karma Day' described in Collaborative Games for Risk Management  provide tools for facilitating teams through a risk identification workshop.

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MPUG

MARCH 18, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Jeff Bongiovani’s session, SIPOC Workshop Facilitation – Part 1, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Welcome to part one of MPUGs training course, SIPOC Workshop Facilitation. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations.

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Planio

MARCH 11, 2024

Aside from helping you to avoid disaster, risk management has a range of wider project benefits, including: More accurate project estimates: Factoring in risks and uncertainty helps project managers more accurately estimate their project’s timeline, budget, and benefits. With the right approach, limitations can be liberating.

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Planview

JULY 29, 2021

rate), as well as the risk’s impact scale, reflecting the severity of its influence on the project’s objective. Expert judgement : On many occasions it can be helpful to take advice from experts, such as individuals with recent experience on similar project cases, through interviews or risk facilitation workshops.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Modelling is the reason we don’t want our children to hang out with “the wrong sort of influence” and it is the reason we want them to hang out with “the right sort of people”. I will be running some workshops and doing some coaching. We know, instinctively that our kids will copy what is around them and the same is true of us at work.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The Product Owner owns the “why” and influences the “what” and “who,” but never the “how.” Good opportunities to engage stakeholders are Scrum events like the Sprint Review, workshops such as user story mappings, or training team members of stakeholders to better communicate with the Scrum Team in general.

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Technical Review SCRUM 2020 Cadence 212

Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2019

First of all, let’s have a look at the current issue of the Scrum Guide on the Product Backlog: “Product Backlog refinement is the act of adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the Product Backlog. More precise estimates are made based on the greater clarity and increased detail; the lower the order, the less detail.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2019

First of all, let’s have a look at the current issue of the Scrum Guide on the Product Backlog: “Product Backlog refinement is the act of adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the Product Backlog. More precise estimates are made based on the greater clarity and increased detail; the lower the order, the less detail.

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Planio

JANUARY 16, 2023

5 tips for building influence and advancing your career. In this guide, we’ve collected the best project management tips for new project managers - from what skills to focus on to how to get settled in a new role, run projects, and build your influence. Building influence. Create quick wins for your project. Get a mentor.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 9, 2020

AgileDC is a 1-day workshop held each fall where people from around the region share their best practices.” Multiple workshops, dinners, meetups, and webinars are held each week, along with several professional development days,” Alan says. Try to join some of the expat groups on Facebook.

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Susanne Madsen

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Projects often run into difficulties because of unclear scope and objectives, lack of business focus, poor estimation, inadequate risk management, and lack of engagement from key players, including the project sponsor and senior decision-makers. Keep the workshop short (e.g.

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MPUG

AUGUST 29, 2022

I have been conducting PMP training workshops for about 15 years. I usually have to explain that although the PMP exam is based on project management, the primary focus of PMP training workshops is to help participants to crack the PMP exam—not necessarily learn project management. Realistic estimation and planning.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It’s a non-viable, workshop everything model that nearly zero UX practitioners adopted. Everything is done by a workshop and team meeting. They don’t workshop their work to death. Lean UX is neither Lean nor UX; don’t be fooled by the name. I have hours on this as well. But you can see why SAFe liked Lean UX.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) , AACE Workshop, Denver, Colorado, April 16, 2011. Creating Credible Plans, Integrated Reporting and Control Systems - Part 1 , College of Performance Management, IPM Workshop, 2015. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline , AACE Workshop , April 16, 2011.

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Growing Agile

JULY 11, 2017

To help her get started presenting at conferences I’ve offered to co-speak with a workshop we’ve designed together based on work we’ve done together. Title: Influencing an Agile Transition. We’ve found that influence is a critical skill in Agile transformations. Mention here that it will be a workshop.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2022

The Product Owner may influence the Developers by helping them understand and select trade-offs. Everything is detailed and estimated: All Product Backlog items are entirely detailed and estimated. Otherwise, the Scrum team should invest in a workshop on writing better Product Backlog items.). Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

‘Knowledge work’ refers to tasks that take place mostly in our minds, like predicting scope, setting up plannings, considering consequences of changes to complex systems, working out test cases and estimating complexity. This will affect all estimates and predictions. This will affect all estimates and predictions.

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Planio

OCTOBER 24, 2022

See this project planning step in action: The best way to define your goals, objectives, and scope is to brainstorm them together as a team in a workshop. Then, use the 3-point estimating technique to estimate how long each one will take. to move you through the layers. Here’s an example: ??

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It’s a non-viable, workshop everything model that nearly zero UX practitioners adopted. Everything is done by a workshop and team meeting. They don’t workshop their work to death. Lean UX is neither Lean nor UX; don’t be fooled by the name. I have hours on this as well. But you can see why SAFe liked Lean UX.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

Methods vary depending on the project description and scope, ranging from data gathering and analysis techniques to estimation and planning approaches, including collaboration techniques and workflow optimization. The project objectives, the nature of the tasks involved, and the preferences of the project team influence the method choice.

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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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Leading Answers

MAY 1, 2020

This second option of embracing, using and sharing is “playing in the gray area,” a term I learned at a recent workshop I was giving. Or, we could welcome it, use it to our advantage and share the benefits/trade-offs with anyone willing to listen.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. These are the charts from a workshop showing how to build a credible PMB, starting with the Integrated Master Plan. IMP/EVM World Workshop Materials. College of Performance Management , IPM Workshop, 2016.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Activity Duration Estimates Review . is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. Analogous Estimating . is an external factor or event capable of influencing the project’s success. .

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Activity Duration Estimates Review . is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. Analogous Estimating . is an external factor or event capable of influencing the project’s success. .

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

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.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Estimates vary, but hiring new staff usually costs between half and two times the salary of an existing employee. Right size Carry out workforce demand forecasting to establish estimates for company growth. Or it could workshop the impact of AI on employee skills. If not, you may need to make changes.

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Planio

JUNE 19, 2023

In fact, studies have shown that around 27% of projects fail because of inaccurate task estimates, with another 11% failing due to undefined task dependencies. navy in the 1950s, the Program Evaluation Review Technique (or PERT) helps project managers worldwide estimate, plan, and visualize their projects in a way that allows them to succeed.

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Wrike

MARCH 19, 2015

And their influencers. Suggestion to keep them all straight: identify and rank your stakeholders according to their level of influence and how much they will be impacted by the outcome. Give reasonable time estimates, so they know exactly what they are getting themselves into. Keep project sponsors engaged. Trust your gut.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

At the #NoProjects #NoEstimates workshop it was mentioned that focus on "on-time, on-budget naturallt leads project to meet those goals and forget the value/benefits side of the equation. These are classic examples from an author who is either unskilled, untrained, and inexperienced in estimating software development.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

Yet another class #NoEstimates lack of understanding of estimating, reference class forecasting, reference class databases, parametric estimating, estimating tools, and other well established estimating processes in the agile software development world. Subscribe to one of several reference class estimating sites.

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