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Estimate at Completion: A Complete Guide + Template

Rebel’s Guide to PM

EAC is a component of earned value management so if you have EV reports being produced for your project management software, then you have no worries: you’ll have the data calculated for your from your plans. How to report EAC. If you don’t have an earned value management system, you can still use EAC.

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Your Strategy Planning Meeting Agenda (with Template)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. If you are putting together your first strategy or doing a complete overhaul, you’ll need to spend a lot more time on it to get the strategic process set up and the relevant data collected. When do strategic meetings happen? Some businesses use quarterly meetings.

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Why Kanban Might Not Be a Good Fit for Your Scrum Team (Yet)

Scrum.org

If your team is struggling with basic Scrum elements like sprint cadence, empiricism, and delivering Done increment, adding Kanban’s work-in-progress (WIP) limits, cycle times, and throughput metrics can overwhelm your team and dilute the focus.

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How to Use Flow Metrics to Optimize Product Delivery

Scrum.org

Flow Metrics provide insightful data points illuminating a work item's journey from inception to completion. We will have collected the timestamp data while tracking Work Item Age. By recording all of the Cycle Times for individual work items over an iteration, you have data to create a scatterplot. What Are Flow Metrics?

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The Difference Between Right Sizing and Same Sizing of Work Items (and Why You Should Care)

Scrum.org

Right-sizing in Agile refers to the practice of customizing the size of work items in your backlog to match their inherent complexity and effort required to the time interval of your cadence. Your team can confidently commit to completing certain items based on historical throughput and performance data. The result?

Cadence 246
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13 Reasons to Choose Agile Project Management Methods

LiquidPlanner

The right data can reduce bench time, improve resource utilization, and highlight when the team is able to take on new work – all crucial to making smart business decisions. If you are talking to execs about why agile is a good choice for your business, then have your cost data available before you bring money into the conversation.

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The Simple Way to Improve Visibility on Projects

LiquidPlanner

It uses smart ways to think about and present project data so you always have a single view of the truth and the confidence that what you are seeing can be trusted. Planning intelligence surfaces data-driven insights to improve performance by speeding up decision making across your project portfolio.