Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Project Governance. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) , AACE Workshop, Denver, Colorado, April 16, 2011. Creating Credible Plans, Integrated Reporting and Control Systems - Part 1 , College of Performance Management, IPM Workshop, 2015. Project Driven Organization Framework. Project Breathalyzer.

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Planio

JANUARY 16, 2023

Lay your cards out by creating a solid governance structure. 5 tips for building influence and advancing your career. In this guide, we’ve collected the best project management tips for new project managers - from what skills to focus on to how to get settled in a new role, run projects, and build your influence. Get a mentor.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

Methods vary depending on the project description and scope, ranging from data gathering and analysis techniques to estimation and planning approaches, including collaboration techniques and workflow optimization. The project objectives, the nature of the tasks involved, and the preferences of the project team influence the method choice.

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Planio

OCTOBER 24, 2022

See this project planning step in action: The best way to define your goals, objectives, and scope is to brainstorm them together as a team in a workshop. Then, use the 3-point estimating technique to estimate how long each one will take. to move you through the layers. Here’s an example: ??

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Governance (#Governance). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Six Business System Rule - defines the assessment of the integrated business systems for Federal procurement and their integrity in providing information to the Government contracting office. .

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

When we hear about software development disasters and then hear that estimates are to blame, and NOT Estimating will somehow reduce or prevent these disasters, think again. Each of the categories operates in the presence of uncertainty and requires that estimates be made about the probability, conseqeunce of the resutling risk.

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Wrike

MARCH 19, 2015

This includes (but is not limited to) customers, employees not on the project team, contractors, suppliers, unions, shareholders, financiers, government, special interest groups, community, the general public, and future generations. And their influencers. Keep project sponsors engaged. Trust your gut.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

We were on of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . And, my customer is equally as clueless about the need to estimate as I am. I suspect the latter. .

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help. Almost impossible?

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. Is this normal?

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Planio

JUNE 19, 2023

In fact, studies have shown that around 27% of projects fail because of inaccurate task estimates, with another 11% failing due to undefined task dependencies. navy in the 1950s, the Program Evaluation Review Technique (or PERT) helps project managers worldwide estimate, plan, and visualize their projects in a way that allows them to succeed.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As a Product Owner, you probably need to be like The Influencer all the time. In this section, we’ll be sharing various tools, techniques, practices, stories and experiences with you, in order to become more effective as a stakeholder influencer. Influencing stakeholders is however not the only thing you do as a Product Owner.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? Estimation of Long?Term Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty … and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean,” Phil Beenhouwer, The Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA), May 17, 2006. Leidner, 2016 IEEE 16 th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

requires making estimates) ? Estimation of Long?Term Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty … and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean,” Phil Beenhouwer, The Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA), May 17, 2006. Leidner, 2016 IEEE 16 th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops.

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