ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Manufacturers need to give their customers an accurate estimate of the lead time so they know when to expect the goods they’re going to sell. The more accurate those estimates are, the greater customer satisfaction. This leads to more efficient manufacturing processes and finds the balance between operation rate and cost per unit.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Agile estimation is one of the greatest instances of this. These estimating strategies are used to set the complete product, making it easier for the team to get through the product. Almost all Agile teams estimate and employ various estimating strategies, such as dividing complex items into smaller chunks.

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Techno-PM

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The lean portfolio management is a new way to look at the old problem of balancing cost vs. value in product development projects. The use of Lean portfolio management agile has exploded in the last decade as more and more companies have found that it is a powerful tool for structuring their product development processes.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Pros Clear, define steps End goal is defined at the beginning of the project Emphasizes a clean transfer of information Cons Changes to project are difficult to make Internal process with little focus on end user Testing doesn’t occur until project is done 2.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Boost your skills: Make sure everyone on the team knows how to manage risks and what the process is. Skill #3: Managing scope Understanding the change management process and being able to navigate your way through the changes as they hit the project – that’s a great skill to have. Check that you know who needs to approve changes.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management for the enterprise. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading: Part 1: What is Lean Portfolio Management? Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding. Didn’t we just say that a centralized PMO undermined LPM?

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate. process, policy, practices, perceptions, etc.) Also known as continuous process improvement.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When teams have a good project risk management process in place, then you can identify and deal with all the project’s risks in an appropriate and thorough manner. an estimate of three or more on the scale mentioned in No. Estimation. But there are ways you can mitigate and manage risk. Assign owners. And who doesn’t want that?

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Don't hear one?

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

Let’s take a couple of minutes to understand these: What is software development effort estimation. How we were estimating earlier. What is story point estimation. What is an estimation in software development? How were we estimating earlier? Analogous estimation is famous as ballpark and gut feel.

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Teamweek

JUNE 27, 2018

Lean project management sounds like a brand-new concept when in actuality it’s been around for over 40 years. Now, fortunately for project managers across all sectors, the lean philosophy is more widespread and making a difference in all sectors that value customer service. Origin of the Lean Philosophy. The Many Faces of Lean.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Chapter 5 covers the agile project management model and then the rest of the book covers the process and project lifecycle in detail, with chapters on governance, scaling and performance measurement. Lots of things are at the heart of agile methods – it’s a very lean way of going about delivering results). Buy on Amazon.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2021

estimating the work in size and value. Estimating Product Backlog items. The Hypothesis Canvas based on Jeff Gothelf's Lean UX Canvas encourages Scrum Teams to explore problems creatively. The process of grouping the remaining cards into the new list is repeated until the last card in the pile. Magic Estimation.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

This process continues until the team reaches a point where the task can be accomplished, who will get that assignment. It’s a project management technique to help with time estimates. But estimating time for a project isn’t easy. PERT has been used by project managers to make time estimates that are more accurate.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This category of the Product Owner theses addresses the meta-level of the Product Owner role and the Scrum process: The Product Owner embraces, shares, and communicates the product vision, representing the customer voice and internal stakeholders. Additionally, there is the Product Backlog refinement as a continuous process.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2023

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. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Much like the lean movement in manufacturing, companies that embraced it wholeheartedly were the ones that ultimately see the competitive edge that it provides. In lean manufacturing, we can optimise the production of pre-developed products through the nature of its predictable production. Why is software so unpredictable.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2021

Here are some of the factors to consider when trying to create consistency in your process: Pricing Strategies: When demand is low, reduce the price to match capacity. Aggregate production planning also lets manufacturers know what staff, materials, output rates, timeline estimates and budget costs they need.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2022

The following article points to 27 common Product Backlog anti-patterns – including the Product Backlog refinement process – limiting your Scrum team’s success. ???? Join 150-plus peers on May 30, 2022: HoA #42: The Skinny on Lean Roadmapping and OKRs w/ Janna Bastow. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2019

Of course, this assumes that organizations are streamlining processes, using new digital transformation approaches or methods and are assigning competent project managers to lead small, medium and large teams. Behaviors and competencies for lean and fast teams can differ in many ways. Project Performance Affects the Bottom Line.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 14, 2023

While spreadsheets have been used in the past for production scheduling , it’s a manually intensive process that slows down production. It allows users to manage all manufacturing processes in one place, adding visibility and notifications. It tracks serial numbers and works well with lean manufacturing.

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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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Kiron Bondale

JUNE 16, 2018

The challenge with all of these funding approaches is that they are based on an estimated cost of a project rather than the funding we wish to allocate to a product, capability or service. one sprint’s worth), but in most cases, project funding approval processes are not lean enough to encourage such behavior.

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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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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Taking on too many tasks emanates from a complex mixture of many things including a feeling that ‘I can do things better than someone else’, a commitment to keeping the enterprise lean and real zeal for their new business venture. As entrepreneurs, you may not have historical data to properly estimate timelines to complete certain tasks.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In fact, in some lean or agile organizations, over-reliance on documentation is seen as a clear impediment to innovation and collaboration. Budget: This is an estimate of everything in your plan and what it will cost to complete the project over the scheduled time allotted. Before You Start Your Business Case.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Saddest is that given decades of UCD and HCD as our key processes, SAFe picked “Lean UX” to add to their model. Lean UX is neither Lean nor UX; don’t be fooled by the name. But you can see why SAFe liked Lean UX. Lean UX is a model where UX has no real power to do much or make decisions.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In this presentation, Allan "Nuke the backlog" Kelly suggests you rethink the very idea of the backlog and rebuild your agile process around outcomes. What about a forward estimation if stories are generated just in time? Hands-on Agile 42: Lean Roadmapping and OKRs with Janna Bastow. So what are we to do?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

It’s a visual system for managing work as it goes through a production cycle or process. What scrumban does is take the prescriptive nature of scrum, which resides in an agile framework, and uses the process of improvement that is key to kanban. This gives teams the power to continually optimize its processes.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 31, 2023

The underlying assumption that the work is well-defined, and the required effort can be easily estimated is a shortcoming of these approaches. Monitoring and reporting processes are complicated and become lagging indicators. Work packages are small enough to be estimated and assigned. Kanban allows teams to visualize work.

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Scrum.org

MAY 19, 2021

We do not need to spend 3 months (replace by your estimation), people effort and company money to deliver something that is not valuable. You can combine a few Lean UX practices. Useful information about Lean UX can be found here. Ideally, you want UX people involved in this process. This is fantastic news!

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

46% of the organizations reported inconsistencies in practices and processes as their main challenge with agile transformation. SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for accomplishing business agility using Lean, Agile, and DevOps. Develop Lean-Agile Leadership. Seamless Delivery.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

SAFe defines the role of the Scrum Master as a servant-leader for the agile team who helps educate the team on various frameworks and methods, including Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, and SAFe, ensuring that the agreed-upon agile process is duly followed. SAFe embraces Lean and Agile principles making them very explicit.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Whether manufacturing physical products or providing digital services, most businesses follow some sort of process to deliver the proverbial goods. GE has estimated that the adoption of Six Sigma concepts produced a $10 billion benefit in the first five years alone. . Six Sigma explained.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Saddest is that given decades of UCD and HCD as our key processes, SAFe picked “Lean UX” to add to their model. Lean UX is neither Lean nor UX; don’t be fooled by the name. But you can see why SAFe liked Lean UX. Lean UX is a model where UX has no real power to do much or make decisions.

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Lean Software Review 2022 Technical Review 144

Velociteach

JUNE 7, 2023

Story Sizing We use story points to estimate work size and complexity instead of hours. Relative sizing tools, like t-shirt sizing, are generally reasonable and more accurate than duration estimates. Story points are used to estimate each backlog item’s size and the team’s velocity. Then the family estimates its capacity.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Insisting on precise estimates in such scenarios leads to unrealistic commitments and, often, failure to deliver value, impeding the building of trust between teams and their stakeholders. Inflexible Structures Hinder Adaptability : Traditional management often has rigid hierarchies and processes designed for stability.

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