Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

Not doing the exercise to find out what lessons the team learned when a piece of work is done means you are unable to learn from your mistakes. They make up their own estimates based on how long they think things will take. Not doing lessons learned Most post-implementation reviews end up with a list of lessons captured.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

Anchoring occurs when a project manager adjusts an estimate closer to a number she previously heard or saw. ” Even if the project manager disbelieves the two-week estimate, she would be unlikely to stick to her two-month plan.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 21, 2025

It is also sensible to ask them to estimate a budget for change management based on their prior experience. Try to take estimates of this work from interfaces the supplier has created before or your own internal project expertise. Even with a willingness on both sides you can still hit problems and that equals a higher cost.

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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.

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 18, 2021

One of the reasons that project managers fail to properly estimate their projects is they miss key activities when developing their schedules. One of the most powerful tools for this exercise is the work breakdown structure (WBS) which is a hierarchical decomposition of the scope of work. Why does this happen?

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In this exercise, we should consider: What deliverables must be created to achieve the project objectives? When individuals estimate schedule activities , they add time to account for risks. The project manager and the team must break down the project into pieces. building, software, reports). What will NOT be delivered in the project?

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 16, 2017

Improve buy-in and support for your project budgets Do you ever feel like the Lone Ranger when trying to improve cost estimates? Many project managers are left to their own devices when estimating projects. So, how can we improve our cost estimates? 3 Techniques to Improve Cost Estimates. You’re not alone.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 3, 2016

You are assigned to manage a project and before you or your team have had an opportunity to start to chip away at the looming mountain of uncertainty, you get put on the spot to provide a cost or schedule estimate by your project sponsor or some other stakeholder. Sometimes we see an oscillation between these outcomes. No be there.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Estimate the Resources That You Need Resources aren’t only people, but raw materials, equipment and anything else that the team needs to accomplish the task assigned to them. Estimate Costs and Create a Budget Now that you’ve estimated the resources you’ll need, it’s time to figure out how much each of these will cost.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 31, 2020

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. Finally, it’s time to present your new schedule to your Sponsor.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2025

This includes estimating work, managing their own tasks during the Sprint, and collaborating effectively within the team. Developers are also responsible for estimating Product Backlog items. Developers : Responsible for carrying out tasks related to building the product Increment.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Estimating in for many teams a pain. To me it is even the most important part of the whole sizing exercise. 3/ Let the team pick the group "small" and do the same exercise. Endless discussion if a Product Backlog Item is now 5 or 21 Story Points. Now the conversation itself is important. Repeat for the group Medium and Large.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

How do you deal with a team that refuses to estimate how long tasks will take? Estimating can be done in several solid ways, and frankly, it sounds as if your colleagues don’t know how to estimate properly or are scared to give you the timescales that pop into their heads. It is difficult to estimate when the task is too big.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Budget: This is an estimate of everything in your plan and what it will cost to complete the project over the scheduled time allotted. Create a Schedule: Make a timeline for the project by estimating how long it will take to get each task completed. Now, it’s not just an exercise to appease senior leadership.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 17, 2024

Perhaps your work is very linear so it’s so obvious you don’t need to go through the exercise of working it out. It uses the contractual agreements and workload estimates to accurately work out how much money you’ll need on the project in any given month. Get your estimates. For simple schedules, you might not.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

An event budget is the estimated costs associated with putting on an event. Corporate events can be used to train staff or educate the public on the brand or a product, celebrate company milestones, usher in changes in the company and provide networking opportunities or team-building exercises. Estimate Fixed & Variable Costs.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Fostering collaboration through project management tools , team-building exercises and other tools and techniques will drive productivity. But the idea is that when we do set that situation up, without estimating things appropriately and taking that into account, we get into trouble which can lead to project failure.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 7, 2019

TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics — An Eye-Opening Exercise. 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. Cooking the Agile Books for Line Managers.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 1, 2019

In this KA, you cover everything to do with defining the work required to deliver the scope, putting those tasks in the right order, estimating how long they will take to do and building the project schedule. The domain also covers keeping the schedule up to date. Cost management is basically managing project funding.

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Project Bliss

AUGUST 17, 2020

In fact, according to recent estimates, telecommuters work nearly 17 more days per year than regular on-ground employees. Team building exercises are a fantastic way to build that essential esprit de corps , even when you’re not sharing the same physical space. Team Building.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 7, 2020

By 2028, it is estimated that 73% of all departments will have remote workers. This is a remote team-building exercise used by Microsoft. By March, I was joined by the majority of workers transitioning into a work-from-home lifestyle. The COVID pandemic had only perpetuated an already present trend.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The affinity diagram is a fun, creative, and beneficial exercise. Quantitative analysis : Calculate the potential benefit by multiplying the probability times the estimated value. Project managers can use this simple method to help identify causes of opportunities. Affinity Diagram. Participants are asked to brainstorm opportunities.

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Scrum.org

JULY 27, 2021

Instead, we are saying tha t number two is less important in comparison to number one (it’s just like relative estimation! ). However, because stakeholders and customers (and maybe even your Product Owner) were never forced to order things with a clear number one, two, and three, this exercise can be very challenging. How do we choose?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This exercise makes people share positive team experiences, helps them to define what their core power and drive is and what they need from a team to perform at their best. I started the day with my favorite recap-warm-up exercise: building a treasure map of yesterday’s discoveries. Explanation of effort estimation and planning poker.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Product Backlog Creation and Estimation. That should be a continuous exercise. Is it a joint team effort or is the Product Owner writing the user stories and the team estimates them? How are you estimating the likely effort of a Product Backlog item? An estimate is a side-effect, not the primary purpose.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 6, 2021

One of my favorite exercises from my Professional Scrum Master classes is how to best sabotage a Scrum Master as a member of the middle management. The exercise rules are simple: You’re not allowed to use any form of illegal activity. The Exercise: Consider How to Best Sabotage A Scrum Master. Scrum Team Building & Management.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

If our estimates are wrong most of the time, why should we even attempt estimating in the first place? If this is the case, why bother estimating at all? If this is the case, why bother estimating at all? . Estimating can work but only if you understand why you are doing it. Let us understand why we estimate. .

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2020

All you have to do, is to run the questionnaire every four to six weeks during a retrospective, record the results, and aggregate them: In this example, we were using a kind of estimation poker to answer each question with one of the three values green, orange, and red. The colors were coded as follows: Green : It works for the team.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2021

The trial day is an expensive exercise and should not be wasted. Good exercises for hands-on learnings are: A. Thirty minutes to prepare for the exercise should be sufficient. Retromat offers a wealth of exercises to choose from, see also: How to Curate Retrospectives with Retromat. This is the simple part.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

Now, it’s not just an exercise to appease senior leadership. Once you have all the tasks collected, estimate how long it will take to complete each one. Your budget is an estimate of everything in your project plan and what it will cost to complete the project over the scheduled time allotted. Project Budget.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This exercise makes people share positive team experiences, helps them to define what their core power and drive is and what they need from a team to perform at their best. I started the day with my favorite recap-warm-up exercise: building a treasure map of yesterday’s discoveries. Explanation of effort estimation and planning poker.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 3, 2023

I want you to create a schedule, name the exercises, and point to sources where I can learn more about the suggested activities. Can you be more specific regarding the exercises for lessons 4 to 7? Please suggest what kind of exercises best advance the respective lesson topic for the students.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Next, fill in the time estimates for project tasks. I found the assignments where the answer was one thing or another (like a time estimate) easier to do than drafting narrative text. However thorough this case study, it’s only that: a desk-based exercise. The first is writing an email to a senior stakeholder, Deanna.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We determined what needed to be done to put in place instant fixes so that the website code would work and how much time a complete re-write of the website code would take – which we estimated would be all night long.”. There are exercises, flip charts, brainstorming. What’s the difference between a workshop and an ‘ordinary’ meeting?

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Scrum.org

MAY 15, 2023

Explain the benefits and drawbacks of different estimation techniques. Your suggestions include surveys, talks, interviews, team meetings, games, exercises, or other parties like stakeholders or line managers, and other useful practices. Summarize the outcome of the Retrospective with the following data: [Your data.]

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 28, 2023

Train Your Employees Plan training and exercises for your personnel. Track Production Schedules With Gantt Charts Production schedules rely on resource planning, estimation and forecast demand as well as knowing your inventory and monitoring progress. Our robust Gantt charts allow you to organize tasks, resources and costs.

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