The document contains a collection of "truths" or sayings related to project management. Some of the key points made in the truths include: 1) Projects rarely go exactly to plan and meeting deadlines is difficult. 2) Stakeholders often want strong project managers but then don't like them. 3) Good project managers are always planning for future problems and know when a project can't be successfully managed. 4) Estimating timelines is challenging and senior management may not support good ideas.
What it takes to build production ready AI solutionNenad Bozic
We are data company that works with other companies to help them build AI solutions. We are a blend of data scientists and data engineers and that makes us question from different angles how next big AI module will be integrated in your platform. We have pushed more then dozen AI solution in production over past few years.
In this presentation I will share our experience working with various clients on AI solutions. We will give you a list of the most common AI pitfalls that prevent AI solutions to end in production. Are you familiar with PoC drawer, where RnD departments allocate some money to try something new, build that up to a working solution, but it never ends up in production? This presentation will help you prepare for your next AI project and it will help you lower down the chance for it to end up in the PoC drawer.
How to Make Working From Home More ProductiveSpringworks
Are you wondering how to stay productive when you work from home and surrounded by distractions? Here are 7 practical ways to make working from home more productive.
Software management...for people who just want to get stuff doneCiff McCollum
This document discusses concepts and techniques for software project management, including planning, estimation, execution, and retrospectives. It covers these concepts at the level of projects, milestones within projects, sprints, and individual stories. Key points emphasized include breaking work into small chunks, using techniques like planning poker and burndown charts, being honest about estimates, and using retrospectives to improve.
When will it be done? (Lean Agile Forecasting)Rodrigo Vieira
This document summarizes key points from the book "When will it be done?" by Daniel Vacanti. It discusses how traditional software estimating techniques often fail and presents better approaches. These include using data from past cycle times to generate forecasts in the form of percentiles, tracking item ages, and applying Monte Carlo simulations to forecasts for multiple items. Keeping work in progress limited and flows smooth helps improve predictability. Focusing standups and retrospectives on queue times, scatterplots, and histograms can help teams reduce cycle times and make more reliable forecasts. The document emphasizes that reliable forecasts require a predictable process with minimal waste.
This document provides guidelines for project planning and scheduling. It discusses key principles for developing a project plan including decomposing work, defining task interdependencies and time estimates, validating effort required, and assigning responsibilities. The document emphasizes maintaining schedule integrity by keeping the schedule current, tracking performance, and updating plans based on changes. It also covers best practices for tasks like using proper links between tasks, avoiding dangling activities, and understanding the differences between free float and total float. The overall message is that thorough planning and schedule maintenance are essential to project success, and there are no shortcuts to developing a realistic and useful project schedule.
The document contains a collection of "truths" or sayings related to project management. Some of the key points made in the truths include: 1) Projects rarely go exactly to plan and meeting deadlines is difficult. 2) Stakeholders often want strong project managers but then don't like them. 3) Good project managers are always planning for future problems and know when a project can't be successfully managed. 4) Estimating timelines is challenging and senior management may not support good ideas.
What it takes to build production ready AI solutionNenad Bozic
We are data company that works with other companies to help them build AI solutions. We are a blend of data scientists and data engineers and that makes us question from different angles how next big AI module will be integrated in your platform. We have pushed more then dozen AI solution in production over past few years.
In this presentation I will share our experience working with various clients on AI solutions. We will give you a list of the most common AI pitfalls that prevent AI solutions to end in production. Are you familiar with PoC drawer, where RnD departments allocate some money to try something new, build that up to a working solution, but it never ends up in production? This presentation will help you prepare for your next AI project and it will help you lower down the chance for it to end up in the PoC drawer.
How to Make Working From Home More ProductiveSpringworks
Are you wondering how to stay productive when you work from home and surrounded by distractions? Here are 7 practical ways to make working from home more productive.
Software management...for people who just want to get stuff doneCiff McCollum
This document discusses concepts and techniques for software project management, including planning, estimation, execution, and retrospectives. It covers these concepts at the level of projects, milestones within projects, sprints, and individual stories. Key points emphasized include breaking work into small chunks, using techniques like planning poker and burndown charts, being honest about estimates, and using retrospectives to improve.
When will it be done? (Lean Agile Forecasting)Rodrigo Vieira
This document summarizes key points from the book "When will it be done?" by Daniel Vacanti. It discusses how traditional software estimating techniques often fail and presents better approaches. These include using data from past cycle times to generate forecasts in the form of percentiles, tracking item ages, and applying Monte Carlo simulations to forecasts for multiple items. Keeping work in progress limited and flows smooth helps improve predictability. Focusing standups and retrospectives on queue times, scatterplots, and histograms can help teams reduce cycle times and make more reliable forecasts. The document emphasizes that reliable forecasts require a predictable process with minimal waste.
This document provides guidelines for project planning and scheduling. It discusses key principles for developing a project plan including decomposing work, defining task interdependencies and time estimates, validating effort required, and assigning responsibilities. The document emphasizes maintaining schedule integrity by keeping the schedule current, tracking performance, and updating plans based on changes. It also covers best practices for tasks like using proper links between tasks, avoiding dangling activities, and understanding the differences between free float and total float. The overall message is that thorough planning and schedule maintenance are essential to project success, and there are no shortcuts to developing a realistic and useful project schedule.
To do a time audit:
1. Write down your goals for tracking your time such as identifying productive times or eliminating time wasters.
2. Make some predictions about how you spend your time before tracking it.
3. Track everything you do in 15 minute increments for 1-2 weeks without skipping anything.
7 Productivity Lifehacks - Be More Productive NowWeekdone.com
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work,” wrote Stephan King.
And every time you achieve something, you get a sensation of satisfaction. This satisfaction is productivity that has come to life, fulfilled it's goal.
In Weekdone, we believe in high standards and hard goals. That's why we tried to find the best lifehacks to help us be more productive. Now, we're sharing them with you.
Tom Raper, Director of Product Solutions at KeyedIn, presented on how spreadsheets are commonly used for project management but have significant downsides for collaboration, data management, and usability. While spreadsheets are flexible and easy to use, they make collaboration difficult, can only store limited information, require manual updates, and lack version control. This can result in projects taking longer and being harder to manage. Formal project management solutions can help address these issues and improve project success. KeyedIn is a project portfolio management provider that aims to help organizations transition from spreadsheets.
Presentation by Em Campbell-Pretty & Adrienne Wilson at the Global SAFe Summit 2021
Mob Programming thought leader, Woody Zuill, suggests that instead of always focusing on solving problems, we also take the time to notice the things that are going well and amplify them, thereby "turning up the good". When it comes to SAFe Dean Leffingwell perhaps said it best: "There is no magic in SAFe . . . except maybe for PI Planning." I suspect most of you agree that PI Planning is the magic in SAFe. There is nothing quite like the energy created by bringing a group of 100+ people together to build a collaborative plan over a couple of days every 10 to 12 weeks. So what would it mean to "turn up the good in PI Planning"? If we focused on what is good and what we want more of, would we get more magic?! For Em and Adrienne, the answer is a resounding "Yes!" In this session, they will take the "The Facilitator’s Guide to PI Planning" and illustrate how turning up the good can bring your PI Planning magic to the next level.
This document discusses reflecting on new ideas gained from a conference. It encourages applying those ideas to future work. It provides three techniques for reflection: 1) Considering current and future jobs and competencies, 2) Arguing how change benefits oneself, and 3) Analyzing past experiences and determining future improvements. The overall message is that change is possible but not easy, so reflection is important.
Beyond the Retrospective: Embracing Complexity on the Road to Service OwnershipJ. Paul Reed
This document summarizes a presentation given by Kevin Finn-Braun of Intuit and J. Paul Reed at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2016. The presentation discusses moving beyond traditional retrospective approaches to embrace complexity and service ownership. It outlines different levels of experience with incident analysis, from novice to expert, identifying behaviors and approaches associated with each level. These include how incidents are discussed, the focus of retrospectives, and how outcomes are applied. The document also introduces the incident lifecycle model of detection, response, remediation and prevention.
How To Be A Healthy, Happy, and Productive Remote WorkerAtlassian
Ever wondered what it takes to be a successful remote worker?
Join Stella Garber from Trello and learn the tips and tricks for time and work management that make remote work an absolute joy. Hear personal and life tips from Trello's team of 70% remote workers, and learn how they tackled the challenges and succeeded in making remote work work.
Henry Ford una vez dijo, “El único verdadero error es áquel del que no aprendemos nada.” Entonces, ¿Cómo podemos aprender más de las fallas de los sistemas? En esta sesión mostramos como usar los datos para mitigar y evitar fallas en el futuro. Esta sesión es presentada a usted, por nuestro socio AWS, Datadog.
Aprovechando la infraestructura dinámica disponible a través de los proveedores de nube y los contenedores, podemos escalar como nunca antes. Sin embargo, al incrementar nuestra escala, el monitoreo se ha vuelto más complicado y por consiguiente, necesitamos ajustar nuestra estrategia de monitoreo. En esta sesión, aprenda cómo escalar su estrategia de monitoreo. Le mostraremos cómo estructurar sus métricas para determinar qué información recolectar y como interpretarla. Esta sesión es presentada a usted, por nuestro Socio AWS, Datadog
3 Most Common Project Management Mistakes & How You Can Avoid Themeisedo To do list
The document discusses common mistakes in project management and how to avoid them. The three most common mistakes are: 1) Not having complete knowledge of the project and changing plans frequently, which leads to confusion; 2) Not using a proper project management platform or tool; 3) Not having the right skilled team members or enough resources for the project. It then promotes the eisedo project management tool as a way to help organize tasks and prioritize work.
No (Lab) Jacket Required: Designing Experiments for Learning [XP2020 Conference]Matthew Philip
Slides as presented at the XP2020 Conference (Copenhagen/Online) by Matthew Philip (Accenture | SolutionsIQ).
Abstract
Hypothesis-Driven Development is thinking about the development of new ideas, products and services – even organizational change – as a series of experiments to determine whether an expected outcome will be achieved, so we need to know how to design and run experiments properly. This workshop session helps participants understand the importance of using experiments to help teams and organizations learn and improve, while giving hands-on practice in designing experiments to yield measurable evidence for that learning. We’ll even play a couple of inductive-logic games to get us in the mindset of how to write tests to validate — and invalidate — our hypotheses in order to acquire knowledge. Whether you’re in product development of organizational improvement, for those wanting to move from projects to experiments in the quest of continuous learning and evolutionary improvement, this session will provide the tools and mindset for going beyond simply calling something an experiment to conducting experiments with the proper rigor to maximize learning.
This 60-minute workshop session helps participants:
understand the importance of using experiments to help teams and organizations learn and improve
gain hands-on practice in designing experiments to yield measurable evidence for that learning
understand how to properly measure outcomes without confirmation bias
https://www.agilealliance.org/xp2020/xp-2020-online-program/industry-and-practice-abstracts/#Philip
The document discusses alternatives to estimates in software development called "#NoEstimates". It argues that estimates are unreliable due to uncertainty and human biases. Estimates promote cost-focused mindsets that hinder adaptation. Instead, the document advocates for iterative development styles that involve continuous feedback, slicing work into small increments, and technical excellence. It promotes agile practices like story mapping, tight feedback loops, and refactoring to support responsive, collaborative development aligned with customer needs over rigid pre-planning.
The document discusses tips from Spurwing Communications for keeping employees engaged during turbulent times like the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It provides five tips: empowering remote employees; establishing clear communication; encouraging boundaries; organizing virtual social events; and leaders sharing personal experiences. The tips focus on open communication, supporting remote work adjustments, maintaining work-life balance, and fostering connections while physically separated.
Complexities of Time Management: The Art of Scheduling and Time TrackingOrangescrum
Time Management is the most important skills required to effectively balance your personal and professional life, and one of the most critical steps towards success in any industry.
QGate provides 10 reasons why they are the best partner for business intelligence projects:
1) They have 15 years of data experience to get your data ready for BI.
2) They understand what KPIs successful companies use and can help develop your understanding of BI.
3) They offer separate solutions depending on your specific needs.
This document provides time management tips and techniques. It discusses that time management is the process of planning and controlling time spent on activities to increase effectiveness. While technology can be distracting, social media especially needs to be properly managed to avoid wasting time. The document recommends spending 5 minutes at the beginning of each day planning goals and 5 minutes at the end reviewing performance, as an 18-minute daily time management strategy.
GDG Cloud Southlake #5 Eric Harvieux: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in P...James Anderson
Eric Harvieux, an SRE on Google's Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team, will talk to us about Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in Practice, including a panel discussion with Fidelity, Home Depot, Sabre, and Google SRE Practitioners. We hope to hear how real-life SRE is different than the books.
1) Adding more resources to a project does not necessarily decrease the time needed to complete it, similar to how having more women pregnant does not allow a baby to be born sooner.
2) Estimating the time and costs of a project is not an exact science and different people will provide varying estimates, especially at different points in time.
3) Project managers should be upfront about uncertainties and what they do not know, rather than pretending to have all the answers, as this can hurt team motivation and morale over time.
7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Project ManagersCarol Smith
This document outlines 7 habits of highly ineffective project managers. The habits include: spending too much time in meetings and not working on the project, assuming engineers are trying to sabotage the project, constantly checking in on engineers' progress instead of understanding technical details, allowing managers to interfere with project timelines and goals, treating all tasks as emergencies, damaging rapport with engineers, and making promises to stakeholders based on engineers' estimates without padding for errors. The document advises that effective project managers empower their team, assume competence, maintain credibility with managers, understand technical work, and communicate priorities clearly.
Estimates are not promises
Your gut lies
Premature estimation is sabotage
Big teams are slower than small ones
Beware unwarranted precision
Count all the things!
When in a pinch, use a proxy
You can’t negotiate math
Scoping and Estimating WordPress Projects as an AgencyJohn Giaconia
WordCamp Los Angeles 2016. Scoping and Estimating WordPress Projects as an Agency. Presentation video available here: http://wordpress.tv/2016/09/25/john-j-giaconia-and-kara-hansen-scoping-and-estimating-wordpress-projects-as-an-agency/
To do a time audit:
1. Write down your goals for tracking your time such as identifying productive times or eliminating time wasters.
2. Make some predictions about how you spend your time before tracking it.
3. Track everything you do in 15 minute increments for 1-2 weeks without skipping anything.
7 Productivity Lifehacks - Be More Productive NowWeekdone.com
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work,” wrote Stephan King.
And every time you achieve something, you get a sensation of satisfaction. This satisfaction is productivity that has come to life, fulfilled it's goal.
In Weekdone, we believe in high standards and hard goals. That's why we tried to find the best lifehacks to help us be more productive. Now, we're sharing them with you.
Tom Raper, Director of Product Solutions at KeyedIn, presented on how spreadsheets are commonly used for project management but have significant downsides for collaboration, data management, and usability. While spreadsheets are flexible and easy to use, they make collaboration difficult, can only store limited information, require manual updates, and lack version control. This can result in projects taking longer and being harder to manage. Formal project management solutions can help address these issues and improve project success. KeyedIn is a project portfolio management provider that aims to help organizations transition from spreadsheets.
Presentation by Em Campbell-Pretty & Adrienne Wilson at the Global SAFe Summit 2021
Mob Programming thought leader, Woody Zuill, suggests that instead of always focusing on solving problems, we also take the time to notice the things that are going well and amplify them, thereby "turning up the good". When it comes to SAFe Dean Leffingwell perhaps said it best: "There is no magic in SAFe . . . except maybe for PI Planning." I suspect most of you agree that PI Planning is the magic in SAFe. There is nothing quite like the energy created by bringing a group of 100+ people together to build a collaborative plan over a couple of days every 10 to 12 weeks. So what would it mean to "turn up the good in PI Planning"? If we focused on what is good and what we want more of, would we get more magic?! For Em and Adrienne, the answer is a resounding "Yes!" In this session, they will take the "The Facilitator’s Guide to PI Planning" and illustrate how turning up the good can bring your PI Planning magic to the next level.
This document discusses reflecting on new ideas gained from a conference. It encourages applying those ideas to future work. It provides three techniques for reflection: 1) Considering current and future jobs and competencies, 2) Arguing how change benefits oneself, and 3) Analyzing past experiences and determining future improvements. The overall message is that change is possible but not easy, so reflection is important.
Beyond the Retrospective: Embracing Complexity on the Road to Service OwnershipJ. Paul Reed
This document summarizes a presentation given by Kevin Finn-Braun of Intuit and J. Paul Reed at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2016. The presentation discusses moving beyond traditional retrospective approaches to embrace complexity and service ownership. It outlines different levels of experience with incident analysis, from novice to expert, identifying behaviors and approaches associated with each level. These include how incidents are discussed, the focus of retrospectives, and how outcomes are applied. The document also introduces the incident lifecycle model of detection, response, remediation and prevention.
How To Be A Healthy, Happy, and Productive Remote WorkerAtlassian
Ever wondered what it takes to be a successful remote worker?
Join Stella Garber from Trello and learn the tips and tricks for time and work management that make remote work an absolute joy. Hear personal and life tips from Trello's team of 70% remote workers, and learn how they tackled the challenges and succeeded in making remote work work.
Henry Ford una vez dijo, “El único verdadero error es áquel del que no aprendemos nada.” Entonces, ¿Cómo podemos aprender más de las fallas de los sistemas? En esta sesión mostramos como usar los datos para mitigar y evitar fallas en el futuro. Esta sesión es presentada a usted, por nuestro socio AWS, Datadog.
Aprovechando la infraestructura dinámica disponible a través de los proveedores de nube y los contenedores, podemos escalar como nunca antes. Sin embargo, al incrementar nuestra escala, el monitoreo se ha vuelto más complicado y por consiguiente, necesitamos ajustar nuestra estrategia de monitoreo. En esta sesión, aprenda cómo escalar su estrategia de monitoreo. Le mostraremos cómo estructurar sus métricas para determinar qué información recolectar y como interpretarla. Esta sesión es presentada a usted, por nuestro Socio AWS, Datadog
3 Most Common Project Management Mistakes & How You Can Avoid Themeisedo To do list
The document discusses common mistakes in project management and how to avoid them. The three most common mistakes are: 1) Not having complete knowledge of the project and changing plans frequently, which leads to confusion; 2) Not using a proper project management platform or tool; 3) Not having the right skilled team members or enough resources for the project. It then promotes the eisedo project management tool as a way to help organize tasks and prioritize work.
No (Lab) Jacket Required: Designing Experiments for Learning [XP2020 Conference]Matthew Philip
Slides as presented at the XP2020 Conference (Copenhagen/Online) by Matthew Philip (Accenture | SolutionsIQ).
Abstract
Hypothesis-Driven Development is thinking about the development of new ideas, products and services – even organizational change – as a series of experiments to determine whether an expected outcome will be achieved, so we need to know how to design and run experiments properly. This workshop session helps participants understand the importance of using experiments to help teams and organizations learn and improve, while giving hands-on practice in designing experiments to yield measurable evidence for that learning. We’ll even play a couple of inductive-logic games to get us in the mindset of how to write tests to validate — and invalidate — our hypotheses in order to acquire knowledge. Whether you’re in product development of organizational improvement, for those wanting to move from projects to experiments in the quest of continuous learning and evolutionary improvement, this session will provide the tools and mindset for going beyond simply calling something an experiment to conducting experiments with the proper rigor to maximize learning.
This 60-minute workshop session helps participants:
understand the importance of using experiments to help teams and organizations learn and improve
gain hands-on practice in designing experiments to yield measurable evidence for that learning
understand how to properly measure outcomes without confirmation bias
https://www.agilealliance.org/xp2020/xp-2020-online-program/industry-and-practice-abstracts/#Philip
The document discusses alternatives to estimates in software development called "#NoEstimates". It argues that estimates are unreliable due to uncertainty and human biases. Estimates promote cost-focused mindsets that hinder adaptation. Instead, the document advocates for iterative development styles that involve continuous feedback, slicing work into small increments, and technical excellence. It promotes agile practices like story mapping, tight feedback loops, and refactoring to support responsive, collaborative development aligned with customer needs over rigid pre-planning.
The document discusses tips from Spurwing Communications for keeping employees engaged during turbulent times like the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It provides five tips: empowering remote employees; establishing clear communication; encouraging boundaries; organizing virtual social events; and leaders sharing personal experiences. The tips focus on open communication, supporting remote work adjustments, maintaining work-life balance, and fostering connections while physically separated.
Complexities of Time Management: The Art of Scheduling and Time TrackingOrangescrum
Time Management is the most important skills required to effectively balance your personal and professional life, and one of the most critical steps towards success in any industry.
QGate provides 10 reasons why they are the best partner for business intelligence projects:
1) They have 15 years of data experience to get your data ready for BI.
2) They understand what KPIs successful companies use and can help develop your understanding of BI.
3) They offer separate solutions depending on your specific needs.
This document provides time management tips and techniques. It discusses that time management is the process of planning and controlling time spent on activities to increase effectiveness. While technology can be distracting, social media especially needs to be properly managed to avoid wasting time. The document recommends spending 5 minutes at the beginning of each day planning goals and 5 minutes at the end reviewing performance, as an 18-minute daily time management strategy.
GDG Cloud Southlake #5 Eric Harvieux: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in P...James Anderson
Eric Harvieux, an SRE on Google's Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team, will talk to us about Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in Practice, including a panel discussion with Fidelity, Home Depot, Sabre, and Google SRE Practitioners. We hope to hear how real-life SRE is different than the books.
1) Adding more resources to a project does not necessarily decrease the time needed to complete it, similar to how having more women pregnant does not allow a baby to be born sooner.
2) Estimating the time and costs of a project is not an exact science and different people will provide varying estimates, especially at different points in time.
3) Project managers should be upfront about uncertainties and what they do not know, rather than pretending to have all the answers, as this can hurt team motivation and morale over time.
7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Project ManagersCarol Smith
This document outlines 7 habits of highly ineffective project managers. The habits include: spending too much time in meetings and not working on the project, assuming engineers are trying to sabotage the project, constantly checking in on engineers' progress instead of understanding technical details, allowing managers to interfere with project timelines and goals, treating all tasks as emergencies, damaging rapport with engineers, and making promises to stakeholders based on engineers' estimates without padding for errors. The document advises that effective project managers empower their team, assume competence, maintain credibility with managers, understand technical work, and communicate priorities clearly.
Estimates are not promises
Your gut lies
Premature estimation is sabotage
Big teams are slower than small ones
Beware unwarranted precision
Count all the things!
When in a pinch, use a proxy
You can’t negotiate math
Scoping and Estimating WordPress Projects as an AgencyJohn Giaconia
WordCamp Los Angeles 2016. Scoping and Estimating WordPress Projects as an Agency. Presentation video available here: http://wordpress.tv/2016/09/25/john-j-giaconia-and-kara-hansen-scoping-and-estimating-wordpress-projects-as-an-agency/
Scoping and Estimating WordPress Projects as an AgencyKara Hansen
The document provides an overview of how to scope, estimate, and manage WordPress projects as an agency. It discusses the importance of understanding scope through discovery, estimating projects by breaking work into discrete tasks, and managing customer expectations through clear communication and documentation of assumptions. Continuous improvement is emphasized through retrospective reviews of past projects to refine processes.
Make project estimates not only affected by the known factors like resources, budget, type of the project and its scope. But also for the unknown variables and risks. Have the right project estimating techniques to make the accurate estimations. Here are a few tips to be followed for the accurate project estimations based on the project priorities, risk factor, proper planning process, clarifying assumptions, including contingency and common activities like meetings, edits etc. Be proper on management of estimates on time.
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is short, simple, and wrong!”
To estimate the complexity and the size of the project we’re about to develop is definitely a complex problem. It doesn't matter if it is a simple app for buying cat food or a very elaborated banking system. Usually, we’re using different estimation approaches to deal with this problem, but it’s pretty easy to fall into various traps. The results of your fall-downs may be really painful, such as an unhappy client or a frustrated team.
In this presentation we’re speaking about different situations and mistakes we’ve made (or have observed in other teams) and we’ll try to give some tips how to avoid them.
You’re an expert developer, peacefully composing code into a profoundly elegant masterpiece, when suddenly your boss rushes in with the Next Big Idea that will Revolutionize The Way People Use The Internet. He’s on his way to pitch to a VC, and stops by to describe the Idea in excited terms. After a 30 second elevator pitch, he pops the question: “So, Peter, how long do you think it will take to build this thing-a-ma-bob?”
What do you say?
These eight Protips will cover your back, save your job, and keep your boss’s shirt.
Digital PM Summit 2014: A Date is a DateTera Simon
For nearly every client, when asked if they have a launch date in mind the answer is always ASAP. What clients do not understand is the cause and effect of ASAP. During this session we will have an open discussion surrounding the following topics:
- How to set client expectations around deadlines
- The cause and effect of missed dates
- The benefits of planning and working in a cushion
- How to become focused on quality not on hours
- Removing the term hours from your vocabulary
- Lessons learned from past experiences
Summary of the material covered in the Project Management and Organization course (Forundersøgelse og projektstyring) from the Faculty of Engineering, SDU.
Timelines and Production: Methods in High Volume Project ManagementLana Wilson
Methods in delivering and planning complex production schedules. Lana Wilson organized this presentation for the Creative Operations Exchange Conference 2019 to share her insights in the effective management of high volume production environments. Enjoy!
The document describes a method called "Planning Poker" for quickly estimating project tasks through group discussion and iterative voting. A facilitator leads a team in estimating how many chickens are needed for a dinner party for 20 people. Through three rounds of voting and discussion to clarify assumptions, the team converges on an estimate of 13 chickens. Planning Poker aims to leverage collective expertise while avoiding biases from individual experts.
This document discusses the pros and cons of planning for projects. It acknowledges that the future is unpredictable and estimating is difficult, but argues that planning is still necessary to understand scope, manage complexity and resources, track progress, and adapt to changes. Without planning, projects risk failing due to unclear scope, insufficient resources, lack of baselines, and an inability to course correct. While agile approaches embrace change, they still require planning through timeboxing and prioritizing features. Modern technology may change how planning is done, but the core principles of understanding requirements and managing uncertainty through analysis and review will still apply. The document concludes that cognitive biases can undermine planning rather than a lack of knowledge, and that planning will remain crucial as projects
This is a presentation I made in the beginning of this year to explain the basics of agile Estimates. Although the presentation doesn't cover exceptions and some special cases (like in the case of hours estimates) it's a good starting point. A text to understand better the presentation will come on my channel on Medium soon.
Estimates or #NoEstimates by Enes PelkoBosnia Agile
Do we need estimates? Are the estimates abused so much that they became unusable? There is a new emerging movement behind #NoEstimates that thinks so. But is it for anyone and in any situation?
Gilt Senior Director, Program Management Office Heather Fleming and Director of Program Management Justin Riservato discuss Agile, Gilt's PMO challenges and more in this informative presentation.
Beyond the Crystal Ball –The Agile PMO - Heather Fleming and Justin RiservatoAtlassian
Perhaps we've set our project management officers (PMOs) up for failure. Without knowing it, we ask them to predict the future using a one-size-fits-all approach to best practices – and that just doesn't work. There is no magic crystal ball! Learn how an agile PMO can help your organization tackle the right work, at the right time, with the right teams using JIRA.
To Estimate or Not To Estimate + #(No)Estimates GameAgile Humans
The document discusses the debate around estimating in software development. It presents arguments for and against estimating, as well as different approaches to estimating such as using story points, t-shirt sizes, and the #NoEstimates method. The document also explores reasons for estimating like planning, forecasting, and facilitating meaningful discussions, as well as techniques for estimating like planning poker, decomposition into subtasks, and using the Fibonacci sequence. Overall, it examines the tradeoffs of different estimating approaches and emphasizes focusing on complexity and uncertainty over precise hours or dates.
This document provides guidance on improving estimates. It discusses expanding one's comfort zone to better understand related processes and people. Common estimation methods are outlined, including analogy, expert judgment, and task breakdown. The document emphasizes the importance of holistic, continuous estimation that considers risks, assumptions, and dependencies. It advises committing to estimates only when requirements are clear and risks are addressed, and avoiding arbitrary padding or unrealistic deadlines. Signs of poor estimates, like unreasonable assumptions or lack of deliverable definition, are identified as "estimate smells" to avoid.
Artem Bykovets: Чому люди не стають раптово кросс-функціональними, хоча в нас...Lviv Startup Club
Artem Bykovets: Чому люди не стають раптово кросс-функціональними, хоча в нас Agile? (UA)
Kyiv PMDay 2024 Summer
Website – www.pmday.org
Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/startuplviv
FB – https://www.facebook.com/pmdayconference
Natalia Renska & Roman Astafiev: Нарциси і психопати в організаціях. Як це вп...Lviv Startup Club
Natalia Renska & Roman Astafiev: Нарциси і психопати в організаціях. Як це впливає на розробку продуктів та реалізацію інноваційних рішень (UA)
Kyiv PMDay 2024 Summer
Website – www.pmday.org
Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/startuplviv
FB – https://www.facebook.com/pmdayconference
Igor Protsenko: Difference between outsourcing and product companies for prod...Lviv Startup Club
Igor Protsenko: Difference between outsourcing and product companies for product managers and related challenges (UA)
Kyiv PMDay 2024 Summer
Website – www.pmday.org
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System Design Case Study: Building a Scalable E-Commerce Platform - Hiike
Olha Chmyr. Team estimates f*up.
1. WHY TEAMS ALWAYS
F*CK UP WITH THEIR
OWN ESTIMATES
OLHA CHMYR,
PROJECT MANAGER, SPD-UKRAINE (PitchBook)
2. ● 4+ years of Project Management
● worked for startups, small/medium
companies, and FMCG corporations
● beautiful creatures and coffee lover
● Project Manager at SPD-Ukraine
(PitchBook)
ABOUT ME:
8. TIME ESTIMATES PROCESS
DEFINE THE TARGET
DIVE INTO DETAILS
● split into obvious subtasks;
● do not get brought away with
detailed detailing.
1
2
9. DEFINE RISKY SUBTASKS
ESTIMATE TIME
FOR DETAILED TASK
● include non-productive hours;
● include time for code review, integration and other dev activities.
3
4
TIME ESTIMATES PROCESS
10. LET’S TALK MORE ABOUT
NUMBERS AND UNKNOWNS
● Ask for at least 2 estimates –
min and max
(it is better to have even three –
min, max and most likely);
● More unknowns, less confidence
11. UNKNOWNS AND UNKNOWN
UNKNOWNS
● Do we understand the spec well?
● How many negative cases are
covered in the spec?
● How will we test the system?
● How will the system behave at the
moment of failure?
12. ● Can the architecture be scaled?
● What are the risks associated with this solution
and to the choices about to be made?
● How will we monitor the system?
● Is it possible to complete a task more
straightforwardly while still accomplishing
a business task?
UNKNOWNS AND UNKNOWN
UNKNOWNS
14. YOU CAN BREAK THE ANALYSIS PARALYSIS
● Can it last for a
half a year? ● Can it last for a
week?
● Can it last for a
month? ● Can it last for a
day?
16. HOW TO AVOID MISTAKES
● do not get brought away with detailed detailing;
● include risky tasks and increase their estimate;
● provide more specificity in the task;
● split into the subtasks until everyone feels
well comfortable about them;
17. HOW TO AVOID MISTAKES
● calculate individual coefficient of error
estimation;
● include the blocking dependencies between
the tasks of different devs.
● investigate tasks which are hard to estimate;
● include non-productive time expenditures;
29. If everything is as usual, how much time
do you need to finish the task
How did the events go, which of
them usually lead to the timing shift?
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