article thumbnail

5 Insider Tips and Tricks for Working Well as a Remote Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Since 2005, the number of work from home employees had grown by 173%. By 2028, it is estimated that 73% of all departments will have remote workers. By March, I was joined by the majority of workers transitioning into a work-from-home lifestyle. Do you remember what happened?

2028 321
article thumbnail

Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

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, Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.

article thumbnail

Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

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?

article thumbnail

5 Insider Tips and Tricks for Working Well as a Remote Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Since 2005, the number of WFH employees had grown by 173%. By 2028, it is estimated that 73% of all departments will have remote workers. By March, I was joined by the majority of workers transitioning into a work-from-home lifestyle. The COVID pandemic had only perpetuated an already present trend.

2028 502
article thumbnail

Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

Scrum.org

Although our brain is a marvel of evolution, it has not evolved to excel at the kind of knowledge work (Davenport, 2005) that we actually do most of the time. Although our brain is a marvel of evolution, it has not evolved to excel at the kind of knowledge work (Davenport, 2005) that we actually do most of the time.”.

2002 196
article thumbnail

PERT Guide For Project Managers and Productivity Gurus

nTask

PERT or Project Evaluation and Review Technique is a statistical tool that is used in project management to estimating the minimum time required for a project to complete by analyzing all the tasks required and by calculating the minimum time it would take to complete each task in the project. Introduction. Critique of the PERT Methodology.

2005 100