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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. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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A Vital Focus in These Turbulent Times!

International Institute for Learning

Factoring in the Pandemic, estimates put a rise in anxiety and depressive disorders at more than 25%, while at the same time, mental health services have been severely disrupted and the treatment gap has widened. . In economic terms, mental illness causes over $100 billion in lost productivity each year. .

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Function Point, Our Culture and the Creative Industry

Function Point

Last week we engaged in Second Wind’s Premium Seminar on Management of a Busy Studio. 3) From a client perspective, we track each client job and review this to see how we are doing regarding our estimates and the profitability of the work over time with comparisons between estimates and actuals. Let’s learn from the best.

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My Journey as a Scrum Master

Scrum.org

If only we would create more accurate estimates…. I had never done a presentation at a seminar before, not even in Dutch and in The Netherlands! Again, long story short… Scrum Day London was a success (something I like to think) and many other seminars would follow. Speak at seminars. So yes, I had many sleepless nights!

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Student Syndrome in Project Management: Real Constraint or Just Human Factor?

Epicflow Blog

Countless lectures, seminars, home tasks, projects, etc. But the students estimated the task and asked the professor to give them extra time to accomplish it. As a rule, the buffer duration is 50% of the extra time taken from every task estimate. . Probably everyone has ever been a student. Sounds familiar?

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Getting Into Project Management – Five Steps to Take

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Attend webinars, seminars and conferences. Do you need to understand estimating or scheduling better? Don’t be caught out in conversations when people ask about certain elements of project management and you don’t have a clue. Read books, whitepapers and blogs. Speak to people in and around the profession.

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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.