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Estimating Agile Projects.Or Not

Leading Answers

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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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. ' In deciding which feature to develop first, those with the highest economic value are selected. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? Taking an Economic View of Decision Making. The Economics of Risk Management.

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On Technical Debt And Code Smells: Surprising insights from scientific studies

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Why do software teams?—?despite So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”.

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Project Manager Talent Gap: How to Make the Most of It

LiquidPlanner

Japan, Brazil, Germany, UK, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, which collectively represent the world’s developed and growing economic powers. The previous PMI Project Management Talent Gap report in 2012 had estimated that the number of project-related jobs would reach 52.4 Wanted: 87.7

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#NoEstimates Outlook in 2019: Is It Still Relevant?

Epicflow Blog

The movement aims at increasing productivity in the domain of software development by promoting management agility. NoEstimates Starts on the Grounds That Estimation Is of Little Value. NoEstimates Starts on the Grounds That Estimation Is of Little Value. Here’s a short overview of this trend and its prospects.

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Optimizing Portfolio Profit through DIPP-guided Resource Allocation

Epicflow Blog

Shouldn’t that value be identified, estimated, planned, optimized, and tracked? And, of course, the next step now becomes obvious: the estimated resource use of the project is usually monetized as the COST side of the triangle! We are doing it because of the value we are going to get from it. If not, don’t do it!

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Main Risks of Aerospace Engineering Projects: How to Implement Wise Risk Management into Your Organization

Epicflow Blog

developing a poor project plan), Executing (e.g., missing important milestones, unavailability of a critical employee), Estimating (e.g., unrealistic or inaccurate estimates), Communicating (miscommunication between the project participants). [1]. The estimation implies performing qualitative and quantitative analysis.