Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2025

It was also observed that the estimates were at times inflated. And the list of improvements looked like- Improved the accuracy of estimates. Impact - The force or influence on something. Effect: The Scrum Team started filling up the backlog with unrelated work items just to hit the mark of 60 points of work.

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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

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. We should never confuse estimation as an end in itself.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2020

Cost estimates. It is in the estimation of costs and duration of the project where controls are essential. Therefore, it’s key for making accurate estimates. Cost estimates are developed into budgets and time estimates become project schedules. In fact, it works throughout the entire life cycle of a project.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Which stakeholders have the most power and influence? Let’s look at some practical ways that you can better engage and influence your project stakeholders at the right times in your project lifecycle. Engage your stakeholders in the estimates. Ask the people that will do the work for estimates. Work WITH your team.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Influences the estimates given by the team. When the team was transitioning to Scrum, this person gets into the role of Scrum Master; however has not yet let go off the old behaviour. This person keeps on making decisions for the team. Pushes technical choices on the team. In short, still plays the role of technical lead.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2024

Estimating what customers want and how much of each item they’ll want isn’t an exact science. To get an accurate estimate, businesses use many methods, some qualitative and other quantitative. Through these means, a business can influence demand for a certain item to match its planned supply. What Does a Demand Manager Do?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2025

Rather than concentrating decision-making at higher levels, it empowers specific accountabilities: the Product Owner holds authority over product decisions, the Developers over implementation decisions, and the Scrum Master influences and guides based on authority over the process framework.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

Since good decision-making is critical for good leadership and guidance, project managers need to know how heuristics (mental disposition) and biases (personal inclinations) influence a project manager’s decisions. Anchoring occurs when a project manager adjusts an estimate closer to a number she previously heard or saw.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It is a team-based estimating approach to work out the efforts involved for achieving business goals. At first all our employees were working from the same office, so usually we arranged our estimation sessions in the meeting room and used ScrumTime app , which is just a set of planning poker cards that you have on your mobile device.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 9, 2022

Stakeholders are very important because they can have a positive or negative influence on the project with their decisions. While every project has stakeholders and those stakeholders can be anyone with influence or that can be influenced by the project. Types of Stakeholders. External Stakeholders. Stakeholder Prioritization.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

Greyfly might be unique in what it offers but it certainly isn’t alone in how it’s approaching the challenge of using project data and new technologies to influence project success rates. “When you start thinking of it as a quality data challenge, it instantly relates the people and processes, maturity and capability.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Refine Regularly: The Product Backlog is a living document that requires continuous refinement, which involves adding details, estimates, and orders to items based on evolving insights and feedback. This approach ensures that development investments align with delivering maximum value.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 26, 2019

If it is a team which regularly completes more work than was forecast, this could be the result of traditional management oversight causing team members to act very cautiously when estimating their work.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

These 18 project management professionals, in particular, have established themselves as thought leaders and influencers. Each of these project management influencers reached the pinnacle of their profession through a combination of thought leadership, online presence and using the right tools to get the job done every time.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Outcome-Oriented Financial Planning Instead of focusing solely on fixed cost estimates, teams should align budgets with expected customer outcomes, ensuring funding prioritizes the most valuable and customer-centric features. This metric can influence financial decisions about where to invest.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 7, 2023

Businesses can’t influence the latter but can have some influence on the former, which includes labor, raw materials and subcontracting. A cost breakdown structure is a vital tool when managing the financial aspects of a project and helps to not only create a project estimate but also how to create measurable cost controls.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2024

Tracking budget variance can help identify those changes, whether they’re team-based assumptions on things that weren’t true, their estimates were poor, more work was added to or removed from the project, resources changed, etc. Inaccurate Cost Estimation Budgets are estimates. Here are a few of those variables.

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Budget Estimate Software Review Project Cost 396

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 makes it easy to share a common experience for sprint estimation.

Technical Review 365

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Bottom-up planning can reduce knowledge gaps within a team and encourages greater buy-in from team members because everyone is given the opportunity to influence decisions. So, the resulting estimate should be based on real views of the work packages.

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Planning Estimate PMI Innovation 105

Project Risk Coach

APRIL 5, 2021

Project Stakeholder Management Plan Define how you will identify and record stakeholders, interest, needs, power, and influence. Consider three things when creating a project plan: Baselines (e.g., schedule baseline) Subsidiary plans (e.g., schedule management plan) Ancillary plans (e.g.,

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Planning Project Life Cycle Defining Controlling 379

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

That affects how people make choices – and we can influence those choices by how we frame a statement. Framing occurs when people identify the key issues in a situation and then present them in a way that will influence the decision that is made. In other words, we seek out loss aversion more than we seek out gains.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2018

Hence, it’s important to know all possible constraints, their influences on each other and the project management tools that address those constraints. When you estimate probability, a risk will have a certain impact on your project. Stakeholders could have a significant influence on decisions that need to be taken.

Technical Review 393

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 4, 2023

I my first 15 years, I used single-point estimation to build project schedules. The next ten years I used ranged estimations with traditional Gantt chart project scheduling software tools – this was better but cumbersome. Ranged estimation has been around since the introduction of PERT and the three-point estimation method.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The cultural shift towards Agile thinking has been profound, influencing how we approach work, collaboration, and continuous improvement. A recent example of this is the criticism offered to Story Point Estimation. The Agile community, however, remains strong and supportive.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 10, 2025

Stakeholders: Stakeholders influence project initiation by providing input on business needs, feasibility and strategic fit. Stakeholder Register: Identifies key stakeholders, their roles, interests and influence on the project. They help define success criteria, validate objectives and assess risks.

Software Review 203

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 17, 2022

It’s estimated that nonverbal communication makes up about 60-70% of all human communication, which means it can be a very powerful tool. It can influence how people communicate with each other, what language they use, and the types of communication that are considered appropriate. How is culture related to communication?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

We have observed that patients are experiencing long wait times for appointments, with an average wait time of 30 days for non-urgent consultations, which is causing a 20% decrease in patient satisfaction scores and a 10% decline in patient retention, resulting in an estimated annual loss of £500,000.

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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. Resource estimation is always tricky.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 30, 2021

In order to coordinate all the moving parts of a construction project, the project manager must assign tasks to everyone on the team and estimate how much it will all cost to complete the project. Building relationships with clients, senior staff and other influencers. Estimate costs, builds and manage the budget.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 29, 2021

As such, you may have a bit more influence on these if appropriate actions are taken early. External risks can occur due to a variety of factors, often caused by influences more outside of our immediate control. Poor estimating. Sometimes the estimates are just rubbish. Internal risks occur within the organization.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2021

O verview of Agile Estimating. When more is known than unknown, use absolute estimating. Absolute estimating is the practice of applying an hourly, finite estimate to each requirement. Absolute estimating is the practice of applying an hourly, finite estimate to each requirement. Borrowed from nature, this.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

An event budget is the estimated costs associated with putting on an event. Estimate Fixed & Variable Costs. This means understanding the difference between fixed and variable costs and making accurate estimates for them. If your event budget is wrong, that’s even worse; you might not be able to pay vendors or speakers.

Budget 397

Budget Transportation Estimate Risk Management 397

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 17, 2024

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. Time-phased distribution of cost Time-phased project budgets allow you to work out exactly when your project budget will be spent.

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Critical Chain Software Review Budget Estimate 412

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2023

This costs money so there’s also a place to estimate the budget, add a risk log and lay out the change management process. You’ll find fields to define stakeholders, including adding basic information about them, such as their title, email and influence of power on the project, whether it’s high, medium or low.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the dynamic business environment, companies need accurate estimations for timely decision-making and futureproofing workforce availability against market volatilities. It is a step-by-step process that project managers can implement to estimate and allocate resources effectively.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review Estimate 369

LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Estimation is an invaluable tool for anticipating and managing project uncertainties. Accurate project estimates help identify cost and schedule requirements with relative precision, and reduce the risk of running out of time, resources, and budget during a project. Project Estimation Techniques. Breaking Work Down.

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