ProjectManager.com

JULY 21, 2021

What Is Effort Estimation? In order to know a task’s LOE, you must practice something called effort estimation. Effort estimation is the process through which we approximate how much time, energy or money deliverables will demand so that we can rank this on a scale. Related: Free Project Estimate Template for Excel.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But if you’re working in an agile environment, the Gantt chart isn’t the right tool for your iterative approach to project management. A burn up chart is a tool used in agile project management to measure progress. This also allows them to estimate the time left in the sprint or project. What you need is a burn up chart.

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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.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 20, 2021

While agile is relatively new, it has made a big splash in the work of project management. It started in software development, but has since been adopted by other industries that have seen the benefit of agile’s iterative approach. Agile is more of an approach, and could almost be defined as a philosophy.

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Scrum.org

MAY 22, 2024

Estimates are notoriously bad. In the world of agile development, inaccurate estimates can lead to missed deadlines, blown budgets, and frustrated teams. But why is estimation so challenging? Estimates are predictions, and predictions are inherently uncertain. This approach leads to better decision-making.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 15, 2025

Cost Management: Helps monitor and control costs associated with projects or tasks, estimating costs when setting budgets (such as labor, material, etc.) This makes it an intuitive tool for users, especially those who work in an agile environment or are new to project management software. Heres a breakdown of those key features.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2023

Here are some tips on how Scrum Masters can balance team psychology safety with management pressure on estimation: Build trust with the team Building trust is essential to team psychology safety. Emphasise the importance of allowing for uncertainty and adjustment during the Sprint instead of demanding precise estimates upfront.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2024

Estimation is often viewed through the lens of techniques and tools. Understanding the human psychology behind estimation can lead to better team dynamics and, ultimately, more successful projects. This article delves into the psychological factors influencing Estimation and how to leverage them for better outcomes.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 25, 2022

What Is Agile Project Management? Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project through short planning cycles called sprints. By using incremental steps towards completing a project, agile teams can easily adjust their project plan or product development plan to better meet their customer requirements.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 24, 2024

This approach lends itself to all project management methodologies, from a traditional waterfall approach, agile environment or hybrid. It can also improve estimating, deliver projects closer to the planned deadlines and achieve better performance and results. For example, it helps with selecting, defining and delivering projects.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Agile teams often struggle with how to size and forecast upcoming work. Flow metrics offer a simple, effective way to solve that problem without the headaches that come from traditional estimation methods. Why Flow Metrics Work You might be wondering: “How can this work if we don’t assign specific estimates—even points—to each item?”

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Agile is a way of working that comes from software development. While the roots of incremental development methods of working stem back to the 1950s and into the 1970s, it wasn’t until 2001 that a group of software developers published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Agile Tools for Agile Teams.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

TL; DR: Estimates Are Useful, Just Ditch the Numbers. Many people dislike estimating work items as estimates supposedly open the path to the misuse of velocity by the managers, reintroducing Taylorism, micro-management, and excessive reporting through the backdoor. Estimating Leading to Micro-Management; the Legacy of Taylorism.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

To do so requires business agility. What Is Business Agility? Business agility is just as it says, a way for businesses to remain agile when markets fluctuate, as they have a tendency to do. Business agility then is an organizational method to help businesses adapt quickly to market changes.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Reflecting on Two Decades of Agile Over 20 years ago, while working as a Software Engineer on an Air Defense System, I found myself in a traditional waterfall context. Yet, within this rigid framework, my team and I began exhibiting Agile behaviors—cross-functionality, curiosity, and a relentless drive to adapt our ways of working.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Over the past decade, the landscape of project management has been significantly influenced by the rise of Agile methodologies and the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Despite the emphasis on flexibility in Agile, maintaining a high level schedule is essential for tracking progress and ensuring that project milestones are met.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 12, 2022

To get to an answer that provides meaningful information, your Scrum Team first needs to decide how to estimate. As the Product Owner, you need to take the data from the estimated Product Backlog items (PBIs) and choose how to forecast a delivery date. Three Ways to Estimate. Exact Estimation. It’s just how it sounds.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Some methodologies include balanced scorecard (BSC) , Six Sigma, total quality management (TQM), Kaizen, agile, business process reengineering (BPR), root cause analysis (RCA), value stream mapping (VSM), value chain analysis, and theory of constraints (TOC), to name a few. We’ll learn more about some specific methodologies below.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2021

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Should a Scrum Team Estimate Bugs and Defects? They are the co-founders of Agile for Humans , the premiere Scrum and Kanban training organization. Today's question is about how a Scrum Team should handle bugs and defects. Join Ryan and Todd in a Professional Scrum training course: [link]

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The four types of project management methods are: Data gathering and analysis methods Estimating methods Meetings and events Other (because it’s always worth having a bucket category for anything else, right?). Estimating methods. Here are four estimating methods. Analogous estimating. This is my go-to estimating method.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Estimating what can be delivered in a single Sprint is a question that stumps many Scrum teams. We start with a simple premise: the Scrum Guide, a compass for many, surprisingly, doesn't mention 'estimates' but talks about 'size'. We encounter the unpredictability of creative work and the folly in trying to estimate such endeavours.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2020

I believe Agile software development is more than ready to use new forecasting techniques to express uncertainy to narrow their decision-making process. These new forecasting techniques are not based on estimations but historical data, thus saving time on the part of developers to focus on what they do best. Definition of a forecast.

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

By Chuck Cobb Agile Project Management Agile , Agile Project Management Share 0 Tweet 0 Share 0 Agile Project Management now feels like a part of the landscape of the project profession. It’s 7 years since the PMI introduced Agile into the 6th Edition of its Project Management Body of Knowledge.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A couple of days ago Gojko Adjic made an awesome comment about Agile. He says, Before complaining that Agile/Scrum/whatever is dead, consider instead that it's become a norm. Now this was in response to the posts/articles that he was seeing with captions like “agile is dead”. It's just in the background.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The purpose of estimation in Scrum is to size higher ordered Product Backlog items so they can be completed within a single Sprint. The primary objective of estimation in Scrum is to size these items so they are small enough to be completed within a Sprint. (See We should never confuse estimation as an end in itself.

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Inloox

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Agility: separating the wheat from the chaff Next year will show which companies are practising effective agility and who is just “babbling agility”. Because: agility shamanism in the form of philosophical feel-good phrases will be discontinued. More and more companies will come to this realization in 2025.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Now Scrum is not just a smart way of delivering software, it is a fundamental part of any enterprise agility transformation. . A pattern I would like to label ‘The Agile Hangover’. . First there comes the Agile party. What happens when the business needs to start becoming more agile? They are already agile.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Our software can handle small to large, simple to complex projects, from waterfall to agile and hybrid methodologies. ProjectManager is a more flexible solution than Microsoft Dynamic 365 Project Operations, which is only for larger, complex projects. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

A burndown chart is a graphic representation of how quickly the team is working through a customer’s user stories, an agile tool that is used to capture a description of a feature from an end-user perspective. The story point estimates for the work that remains is represented by this axis. It Relies on Good Estimates.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Metrics. Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. Also, consider contributing to the Agile Metrics Survey 2020.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In this video, we explore the evolving landscape of Agile and examine why traditional frameworks may fall short in complex, large-scale organizations. Our discussion highlights the importance of stable teams, clear backlogs, and tested products—”The 3 Things”—as foundational for Agile success. Where are we at? Yeah, 2001.

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2022

One way is to estimate Product Backlog item (PBI) size. In a recent article, we talked about three ways to estimate: Exact estimation, relative estimation, and flow metrics. This week, I’d like to dive a bit deeper into the most popular estimation technique: relative estimation. . 5-point estimation.

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Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2024

AI can assist all types of Developers with: Backlog Management : AI can help in breaking down user stories into tasks, estimating the effort required based on similar Product Backlog items. Like any agile undertaking, over time technology combined with practice will increase team value.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It’s extremely easy to use with a low learning curve, so even if you aren’t (and don’t want to be) agile experts, you can quickly improve productivity and collaboration. Summary review of Teamhood: Teamhood is perfect for companies looking to work in more agile ways but without adding the overhead of ‘learning agile ’.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. So, which is the best project management method if we compare kanban vs. scrum? What Is Scrum?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2024

Agile frameworks are frequently misunderstood, and one area that exemplifies this is the use of story points. Initially intended as a tool for simplifying estimation, story points have become a source of confusion and dysfunction within teams. Remember, it's not just about embracing agility but mastering it with Naked Agility.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Read on to find out how it could help your agile team set effective sprint goals through better planning and estimating. Summary review of Chpokify: If you struggle with planning poker and agile estimating in a virtual environment, Chpokify is the answer. Chpokify is your essential sprint planning kit. Product: Chpokify.

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