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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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Function Point, Our Culture and the Creative Industry

Function Point

Managing new sales leads, tracking vacation time, working with multiple operating systems in your firm…deployment of software in a creative agency, all pertinent topics. Last week we engaged in Second Wind’s Premium Seminar on Management of a Busy Studio. Let’s learn from the best.

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How to Conduct Project Planning: An Overview Guide

Project Pulse Journal

Resources include human resources (specific skill sets), equipment, software, locations, and budgets. Cost management explores all potential expenses, including staffing costs, software licenses, materials, etc. Regularly track expenses against this initial estimate, ensuring the project remains financially viable and up to date.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Five Immutable Principles of Project Success , PMI Spring Seminar, 2021, Austin TX.

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

Epicflow Blog

Needless to say that solid knowledge in the theory of project management and familiarity with PM software are the foundation of professional success. PMs can use this knowledge to estimate the time needed for accomplishing tasks, order them, and allocate resources adequately. What what’s more important for my career?