Kiron Bondale
APRIL 3, 2022
If you ever find yourself wanting to inject some energy into a cross-functional gathering of delivery staff and stakeholders, ask for their opinion on estimates. Relative sizing – this covered such techniques as story pointing, T-shirt sizing, affinity estimating and others.
Leading Answers
AUGUST 25, 2020
Project managers generally like plans and estimates so we can forecast when things should be done and how much they may cost. " So, when project managers hear about ideas such as "let's stop estimating," it can trigger a knee-jerk reaction. It sounds lazy and avoiding the hard work of having to estimate.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 27, 2022
In 2012, Helen Mason stood outside her home and looked at the road. The project estimating techniques you use also help Helen’s team work out how busy a night they are going to have. Every day there were more frogs and toads that hadn’t made it to the other side. So she set up a project to do something about it. The frog-saving team.
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
‘Knowledge work’ refers to tasks that take place mostly in our minds, like predicting scope, setting up plannings, considering consequences of changes to complex systems, working out test cases and estimating complexity. This will affect all estimates and predictions. This will affect all estimates and predictions.
LiquidPlanner
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
an estimate of three or more on the scale mentioned in No. Estimation. Once you’ve determined what you’ll do to address each risk, estimate how much it will cost you to do so. Focus your attention on those risks that have the highest potential impact and likelihood of happening (i.e., Assign owners.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 17, 2020
The fallacy happens when we conclude from this that punishment works, and rewards don’t (Defulio, 2012). When teams estimate work, hearing an initial estimate is likely to “anchor” further estimates. The anchoring bias explains why Planning Poker requires participants to show their estimates at the same time.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
DECEMBER 9, 2020
As a major project, part of the team’s responsibility is to create a learning legacy , much like as was done during the London 2012 Olympics. There wouldn’t be that concentration of project managers if there wasn’t work to keep them all busy. Pinch the lessons with pride, as they say!
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