Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The most successful students also include reading a range of PMI-ACP books in their exam prep, as well as a training course, just as that little bit of extra comfort. It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. Alternatively, choose books that fill in your gaps.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 23, 2024

If your tool is integrated with a timesheet app, the percent complete of the task may increase automatically as your team members book time to the task. There is no percent complete formula here - you guess, estimate, or rely on the thought processes of your subject matter experts. Ask them how they rate progress on the task.

Software Review 360

Software Review Estimate Software Closing 360

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?). A complete book in itself! Estimating methods. Here are four estimating methods. Analogous estimating.

Underperforming Technical Team 472

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Software Review Risk Management 472

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Learn more about how to coach these kinds of line managers and help them overcome their preference for the industrial past with a simple exercise on how to cook the agile books. Cooking the Agile Books — A Simple Exercise. The often observed estimate inflation is just one way of dealing with the problem from a team’s perspective.

Agile 194

Agile Underperforming Technical Team Estimate SCRUM 194

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Still plenty of teams use hourly estimates for complex work. Relative estimation: takes less time, focuses on team collaboration i.o. Relative estimation: takes less time, focuses on team collaboration i.o. Relative estimation: takes less time, focuses on team collaboration i.o. In my experience this always hurts.

Estimate 203

Estimate Software Review Budget Agile 203

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This report typically includes an analysis of project objectives, required resources, potential risks, estimated costs and expected benefits. Financial Feasibility Analyzes the projects cost estimates , funding sources, return on investment (ROI) and overall profitability.

Technical Review 219

Technical Review Software Review Construction Infrastructure 219

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Work out the end date ignoring the fixed delivery date, even if you do have to crash your analysis time into a shorter period and use estimates with a greater degree of uncertainty than normal. Backing in is when you start at the end of the project and work your way backwards calculating task estimates until you reach today.

Telecoms 482

Telecoms 2010 Estimate Prince2 482

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 21, 2021

In this extract from their new book, Jahn Karsybaev and Fred Obiero share the characteristics and behaviors of successful and unsuccessful project leaders. Instead, he or she provides recommendations and options as well as highlights potential risks to consider in order to estimate a given task. What makes a bad project manager?

2021 488

2021 PMO Executing Risk Management 488

ProjectManager.com

JULY 12, 2022

This phase also includes planning and scheduling the scope and cost estimation by analyzing the job’s needs. Our interactive Gantt chart helps you estimate costs, plan resources and organize tasks on a timeline. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts help you estimate the schedule and budget for construction projects. Bidding Process.

Software Review 448

Software Review Construction Estimate Budget 448

Kiron Bondale

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Estimates are guesses. The service center is an hour’s drive from my house and I had booked the first appointment time slot of the day. I had also received similar estimates from two different technicians and both seemed very experienced. Remember the upper end of the original estimate range was an hour and a half.

Estimate 194

Estimate Leadership Risk Process 194

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Estimation is a complementary practice Scrum Teams use in Product D evelopment. The purpose of estimation is to provide a rough idea of how much effort, time, and budget are needed to complete specific features or PBI- Product Backlog Item of the product.

Estimate 194

Estimate Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Innovation 194

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

She has written five books on project management including Communicating Change, Collaboration Tools for Project Managers, Handbook of People in Project Management, Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World and Customer-Centric Project Management. Related: Top Project Management Conferences of 2019. Jason Westland.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2022

As the project manager, it’s good practice to book out time to spend elaborating the next iteration of the plan as you get closer to the relevant time frame because people’s calendars get booked up. Get Your Copy. Wordery Amazon UK Booktopia Bookshop.org.

Planning 444

Planning Governance Government 2015 444

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2022

She’s even written the book on it. We have so much material about what processes to use, and yet it is estimated that 70% – and possibly as much as 81% – of project success depends on the human side of projects. Your book covers all of this. Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team.

Underperforming Technical Team 441

Underperforming Technical Team 2020 2001 PMI 441

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I have been a bit lax with project management reading recently but one book that I have made time for is The Conscious Project Leader: How to Create a Culture of Success for Your Projects, Your Team and Yourself. It didn’t take much browsing on his website to realise that it was going to be my kind of book. Colin Ellis.

Underperforming Technical Team 150

Underperforming Technical Team Leadership PMO Estimate 150

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Subpar bidding tool: Users find Procore’s bidding and estimating functionality problematic, which has been brought to the attention of the software. It’s especially useful for scheduling and has cost-estimating features. It is built to serve heavy civil construction estimating, operations and business intelligence.

2024 468

2024 Construction Software Review Estimate 468

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

Note: This article was put together before the PMBOK® Guide – 7 th edition was published so the information in it is drawn from publicly available information about what is going to be in the book. For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact.

Logistics 511

Logistics Artificial Inteligence PMI Performance Measurement 511

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 4, 2019

You might want to take this even further and document exactly how you are going to estimate how much time resources will be required for, how you are going to ‘win’ scarce resources, and what risks you might face around securing the resources. Step 2: Estimate Resource Requirements. Book the resources you need for your project.

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Software Review Prince2 PMI Estimate 336

nTask

JUNE 8, 2021

Estimating projects is part and parcel of project management for any project. However, estimating projects with accuracy is not always so successful. In fact, many of the issues in project management can be traced back to failed attempts at estimating projects. Why Does Estimating Projects so Often go Wrong? Your project.

Estimate 148

Estimate 2021 Budget Software Review 148

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

This conflicts with the advice Scott Berkun gives in his book, Making Things Happen. Data about how far off the original estimates were is needed to make accurate forecasts. This includes validating all the estimates and checking how people arrived at them because it helps you produce an accurate forecast for program completion.

Underperforming Technical Team 444

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sustainability Estimate 444

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2024

The contents of a budget proposal are: A solid project schedule (normally a Gantt chart) Estimated costs per work package/person that summarize into overall labor costs Other resource costs for subcontractors and expenses Any other costs you need to deliver the proposed work. Not only that: you need to estimate who will do the work.

Budget 359

Budget Planning Estimate Consulting 359

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 13, 2022

Have you noticed these are all framed in terminology used for project estimating ? In Don’t Wake the Beastie (my current favorite bedtime story, when I can pry the boys away from another Thomas book), you can tell that eventually the Beastie will wake up. Children’s books are full of them, for good reason.

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2015 PMI Estimate Planning 487

Project Risk Coach

JUNE 1, 2021

Use that conversation as a way to confirm the delivery date with them as well and to check that your estimate is realistic. Book yourself out so that your diary is full and no one tries to book you to attend a sneaky meeting. Again, this is all about managing expectations. This is your time to catch up.

Software Review 424

Software Review Planning Estimate Risk Management 424

ProjectManager.com

JULY 28, 2022

There’s still give and take between the designer and the architect and costs are estimated but changes could still occur. Design development takes more precise measurements and adds details to the final construction documents so the cost estimation is more precise. They also help with the cost estimates and the bidding process.

Construction 397

Construction Estimate Engineering Executing 397

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has powerful kanban features that can estimate project costs and track resource allocation. The book laid out the principles of lean manufacturing, which focuses on reducing waste, creating customer value and seeking continuous process improvement, and kanban.

Manufacturing 447

Manufacturing 2004 Software Review 2009 447

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 22, 2021

The project manager estimates the resource requirement and creates open positions that get fulfilled by the resource manager. The Project Management Book of Knowledge ( PMBOK® Guide ) – Sixth Edition has a comprehensive articulation of Project Resource Management and is perhaps most widely used by professionals worldwide.

Construction 393

Construction Estimate Technical Review Software Review 393

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 6, 2024

00:54 Story Points in a Nutshell 01:38 Using points for planning & estimation 02:16 Can points be used to calculate 'velocity'? Join me for a Scrum.org course: scrum.works/classes And consider adding my recent book to your library: davidsabine.ca/phoenix Join me as I break down this problem.

Estimate 185

Estimate Closing Planning 185

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 13, 2020

In order to estimate costs well, you first need to estimate the amount of work you need to put into each activity you have planned. Not only that: you need to estimate who will do the work. There are more examples in Edoardo’s book, Writing Proposals: A Handbook of What Makes your Project Right for Funding.

Budget 313

Budget Planning Estimate 2020 313

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

When you create a project, you can choose the approach for measuring progress for example, by weighted phases, number of tasks closes, estimated/actual costs, date, hours, or manually. Add names and roles plus their estimated workload. You can capture estimated and actual costs (and add an attachment if you need to).

Software Review 424

Software Review 2021 Estimate PMO 424

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 26, 2020

People go on holiday ( find out how to prepare for a vacation from your project ), they have training courses booked. You’re going to have to redo the fictional schedule again anyway, so why not start with a version that involves real data and real estimates from your colleagues and team? What to do instead.

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Controlling Monitoring Estimate Closing 79

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Goldratt, who literally wrote the book on Critical Chain , was on a mission to make projects finish quicker and cheaper than by traditional methods. Most tasks are likely going to take longer than their estimated duration. Estimates aren’t perfect. Think of it like the adage that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Critical Chain 366

Critical Chain Monitoring Software Review Estimate 366

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 31, 2020

I contributed this chapter (and another one) to the book. Given all their experience, they should be able to come up with some realistic estimates for time frames for all the tasks on the plan. And put some contingency time explicitly in the schedule if you are worried that there is a degree of uncertainty in the estimates.

Estimate 363

Estimate Finance Defining Planning 363

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It can be helpful to compare estimates back to actuals to review how accurate the estimates were and inform future task planning. Each team member can take their own area of responsibility and create workstream-level project plans as well as To Do lists for non-project work (as Elizabeth teaches in her Managing Multiple Projects book).

Technical Review 389

Technical Review Software Review Estimate PMI 389

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum. What Is Scrum?

SCRUM 448

SCRUM Manufacturing 2001 Agile 448

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

To begin, let’s look at the five project management process groups defined in the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK), published by the Project Management Institute (PMI), the leading industry trade group. The business case includes the estimated costs and benefits of the project. If it’s not, it’s abandoned.

Process 433

Process Monitoring Controlling Software Review 433

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2022

These can be broken down in smaller, more manageable sub-tasks and estimated by the team. It is the project manager’s responsibility to discuss priorities with the resource manager and management, and re-book, re-prioritize or re-assign the work accordingly (including updating the resource management system).

Technical Review 441

Technical Review Development Team Review Risk Management Agile 441

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Despite decades-long efforts of the whole agile community—books, blogs, conferences, webinars, videos, meetups; you name it—we are still confronted in many supposedly agile organizations with output-metric driven reporting systems. The Prime Purpose of Refinement, Sizing, and Estimation. Cooking The Agile Books. Related Posts.

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