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Coach New People to Success
I’ve been having some strange email conversations with two testers, one business analyst, and a project manager. Yes, a total of four new people. They have each found jobs on projects. And, they are in over their heads. Each of … Continue reading
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Tagged coaching, communication, one-on-one, project management, team
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Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 5
So where does all of this get us with budgets and dates? In many ways, estimating project budgets or dates for agile projects turns out to be irrelevant. If you have a ranked backlog, and you finish features, you can … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, estimation, iterative planning, kanban, team, timebox, transition to agile
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Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 4
In Part 3, you had some knowledge of the team’s velocity. This is the option of when you do not have knowledge of the team’s velocity, because this team has not worked together before, or has not worked on a … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, estimation, iterative planning, kanban, team, timebox, transition to agile
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Estimating the Unknown: Projects or Budgets, Part 3
You have options for estimation, once you have met the preconditions. If you don’t have the feature set in a ranked order, you are in trouble. That’s because if you use any lifecycle other than an agile lifecycle, the feature … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, estimation, iterative planning, kanban, team, timebox, transition to agile
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Estimating the Unknown: Projects or Budgets, Part 2
So now that you know why it’s so difficult to estimate what do you do when someone asks you for an estimate? Preconditions for Estimation First, you ask a question back: “What’s most important to you? If it’s 3 weeks … Continue reading
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Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 1
Almost every manager I know wants to know when a project will be done. Some managers decree when a project will be done. Some managers think they can decree both the date and the feature set. There is one other … Continue reading
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“Headquarters” and “Remote”: Language Matters
I’ve been working with program teams lately, and some of them have issues when they talk about different teams on their programs when they use words such as “headquarters” and “remote” locations. The headquarters teams tell me the remote teams … Continue reading
Agile Programs Require Agile Teams, Up, Down, Sideways
A few months ago at Agile Boston, Mike Cottmeyer said that when he looks at teams who want to scale agile, he looks at their ability to create working teams. If they can create teams, they can scale. If they … Continue reading
Starting Agile with a Program
The good news is that agile has name recognition. The bad news is that a number of organizations are trying to start agile in a big-bang way, especially on programs. Program management is hard enough without throwing a new approach … Continue reading
Defining Program Management and How Agile Helps
It’s a good thing I said my post about musings was just that–musings! I didn’t bring all of you along. Sorry about that. Let me be more clear. A program is a collection of projects, where the value is in … Continue reading
