Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2021

Marc Andreessen’s adage that “Software is eating the world” is becoming the differentiator for Industries that were previously thought to be more manual. . A company known for developing “Agile” products surveyed more 18,000 customers and Software development professionals, which is what they discovered. .

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. There is a discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. This uncertainty creates risk, which can be reduced through specific actions. (2)

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

Project Management is a systematic and organized approach to planning, coordinating, and overseeing the work of a team to achieve a specific goal. Key to understanding Project Management, is to understand what a project is. Likewise, the project manager can set milestones, dates by which important aspects of the project need to be met.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

Project managers , who have just begun working on a project, may find it really stressful and time-consuming to manage multiple tasks, especially if they don’t know the basics. . Imagine you get a promotion as a project manager and are now solely responsible for various management tasks. Common Project Management Terms.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 18, 2018

There is a popular fallacy in the Agile community that small batch sizes are Risk Management. What small batches do is provide information that informs risk management at a fast rate. This analog signal is the underlying dynamics of the software development process. Small batch sizes answer the question.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population. The estimate can also be produced parametrically or through a simulation (Monte Carlo is common, but Method of Moments is another we use). . Estimates can be about the past, present, or future.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

If you’re used to shipping features and new products, IT project management (ITPM) probably isn’t on your radar. In fact, the digital transformation market was estimated at a whopping $731.1 IT project managers play a critical role in ensuring their company’s IT capability is dependable, up-to-date, and secure. How is it unique?

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. There are not specific to Agile Software Development. Uncertainty creates risk. Risk Management is how Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Conduct Schedule Risk Analysis. Uncertanty creates Risk. Capture All Activities.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

In project management, one of the key factors that contributes to the successful completion of a project is a well-structured and comprehensive budget plan. Understanding the importance of a project budget plan is crucial for project managers and stakeholders. This enhances productivity and reduces delays.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. Paradigm of agile project management from Glen Alleman. . In all cases, we start our work with. illities are a waste.

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

The project charter is written by the project manager and approved by project sponsors. It also serves as a reference point throughout the project execution, ensuring the team stays on track with the expected schedule and achieves the objectives without any misunderstanding, deviation, or avoidable risk.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Break the project down into tasks: Use a Work Breakdown Structure to make the project more manageable. Estimate a project timeframe: Create time estimates for each task. Similar past projects can help you here as a reference. and add that to your cost estimate. Less risk of reduced profits.

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Techno-PM

JULY 4, 2023

Scope management standards and procedures are essential aspects of project management that help ensure projects are completed successfully within defined boundaries. Scope refers to the specific deliverables, objectives, and boundaries of a project. Download Project Management Templates !

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What are the limitations and risks of metaphor? According to Wikipedia : A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect. More on this later under the heading of “risk.” “Velocity” in software development doesn’t mean velocity.

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

As products become more complex, technical project managers have quickly become the holy grail for growing businesses. Technical project managers (TPM) bridge the gap between understanding what’s technically possible in a project and managing the resources, timelines, and expectations to get it done. First, learn the basics.

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MPUG

JULY 15, 2019

Now, imagine a software development project. Also, in software development, requirement change is the rule, rather than the exception. Once have your stories, you break them down to tasks, which can be estimated in hours. Things such as value delivered, cost incurred, risk involved, knowledge gained etc.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In the fast-paced world of project management, staying organized and on track is essential to success. PERT charts provide a visual representation of a project’s tasks, their dependencies, and the estimated time needed to complete each task. It helps project managers analyze the critical path and allocate resources efficiently.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

Move onto task management and list out milestones and steps. Estimate task time and effort. But like everything in project management, a project schedule needs to find the sweet spot between simple and complicated to be helpful. At a minimum, you should know what type of person you’re basing your estimate on.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

But what if you’re not entirely comfortable managing and running Agile ceremonies? Agile ceremonies — also known as Scrum ceremonies or just ‘events’ — are specific events that provide a structured framework for iterative software development processes. Working this way reduces the risk that you’re building the wrong software.

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

By: Dr. Michael Shick, MSPM, PMP, CSM Are you a project manager or team member tired of projects that get out of control, consume resources, and seem to go far beyond their original scope? Discover the secrets to initiating a project that will succeed and make you a leading project manager in your organization.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 2, 2017

So the first part is following standard estimating principles. which states clearly and concisely that decisions can be made (in the presence of uncertainty - which is ALWAYS present on software development projects - without estimating the impact of those decisions. From large construction to software development.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Project scope creep is a common challenge in the world of project management. In order to successfully deliver a project, it is crucial to understand and effectively manage scope creep. Imagine a software development project where the project manager estimated that it would take three months to complete.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 27, 2018

First let’s keep the concept of ROI basic, which is in this context: Applying this equation to a real-life example, if the cost for rolling out a SMILE activity = $10,000 and the estimated value of the program is $100,000 (considering quantitative and/or qualitative factors such as listed above): This number is not exaggerated.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 13, 2018

Estimation locks down choices early through upfront t decision making, #NoEstimates preserves options. A real option is a choice made available with business investment opportunities, referred to as “real” because it typically references a tangible asset instead of a financial instrument. And attached the hashtag #RealOption.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Here's an extract from "Chapter 8: Human Behavior and Complexity," Terry Cooke-Davies, in Aspects of Complexity: Managing Projects in a Complex World. This is a cautionary tale for those listening to the #NoEstimates advocates, where anecdotes of bad management are used in an attempt to replace established principles of business management.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 24, 2016

I got the Kindle version, so I have a $10 investment at risk. Many times the books uses 12, 16, even 25 year old reports as the basis of the suggestion that Not Estimating fixes the problems in the reports. If the project was over budget, was the needed budget estimate correct? First there are two attributes of any estimate.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

Project management plays a crucial role in guaranteeing the success of any endeavor. From product development to infrastructure deployments, having a standardized approach is essential for consistency and efficiency. One powerful tool that project managers can utilize to achieve this is Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

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Resource Guru

JULY 19, 2023

Today we’ll cover: Our expert roll call Expect actionable insights from the following agency veterans: Shantal Gonzalez , experienced Director of Project Management for leading agencies like MRM. Not only do advertising agency workflows differ from workflows for other agency types—say recruitment or software development.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management.

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Techno-PM

JUNE 20, 2023

In the realm of project management, successful execution relies on the intricate interplay of various elements, one of the most crucial being dependencies. Understanding and effectively managing these dependencies are fundamental to ensuring the smooth flow and timely completion of a project. This is the most common type of dependency.

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Herding Cats

MAY 15, 2019

The difficulty could be related to complexities, risks, and efforts involved. Story points are a unit of measure for expressing an estimate of the overall effort that will be required to fully implement a product backlog item or any other piece of work. When we estimate with story points, we assign a point value to each item.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Brown and his book The Handbooks of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management and my review of the same book. This decision model for software development projects addressed: performance, cost, time, and risk.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Yesterday's Post Epistemic Uncertainty Creates Reducible Risk and What Is Risk? Risk is not there to be mitigated, it's there to be eliminated. Risk is the result of uncertainty, which comes in two kinds for all projects, for everything actually. Irreducible Schedule Risk. This, of course, is not factually true.

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Planio

JUNE 20, 2022

Project failure can refer to any number of common issues that range from minor inconveniences to full-on catastrophes. But it’s your job as a project manager to keep those losses to a minimum. Use a project management tool for added visibility. Project management isn’t just about what you build, but the results of that work.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2017

This quote is coming back in the modern era of internet-based misinformation pundits in many domains, including project management and software development processes. IT Risk Management. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Related articles.

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