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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?

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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?

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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.

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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.”.

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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.

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Sequencing Product Backlog

MPUG

Cohn (2005) describes a “relative weighting” technique for sequencing a product backlog, which is similar to what we describe here. Agile Estimating and Planning. Reinertsen’s nomenclature was adopted by the Scaled Agile Framework – Enterprise (SAFe) methodology ( Weighted Shortest Job First ). Cahon, Gerard and Terwiesch, Christian.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

Making decisions in the presence of uncertainty requires estimating the outcomes of those decisions. Any conjecture claiming decision can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimates is a fallacy. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. and Vidal, L-A., and Vidal, L-A., McManus, H.

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