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estimation

Project & Team Management

Beyond a Single Budget: Use Guardrails to Ensure Successful Outcomes in Complex Projects

Prevent budget overruns and protect critical features in complex Agile projects by segmenting resources into guardrails.
Planning Your Project

Software Project Estimates are Not Budgets, and That Matters

Estimates and budgets are not the same. Treating an estimate as a budget for a software project can result in a whole host of problems.
Planning Your Project

Use Legacy Lines of Code to Estimate Software Rewrites

You can use legacy lines of code as a proxy to estimate the complexity and scale of software rewrite projects.
Development Practices

Useful Tools for Facilitating Planning Poker Estimation

Planning Poker provides an engaging way for the team to discuss implementation approaches and build consensus around the effort involved.
Managing Your Team

Why Developers and Managers Should Co-Own the Backlog

In the most successful projects, the backlog is co-owned by developers and managers. Learn why this approach to backlog management works.
Project & Team Management

How to Estimate Work When You Don’t Know Who is Going to Do It

Estimates are first and foremost for project planning. Eventually, as various team members get familiar with the codebase, disparities should fade away.
Project & Team Management

Rethinking Agile, Part 4: Start Estimating Value

I propose that we stop measuring throughput or velocity. Instead, companies should empower software teams to make value estimates on individual work items.
Project & Team Management

Rethinking Agile, Part 3: Stop Estimating Effort

In this third part of my Rethinking Agile series, instead of adding practices, I recommend something for you to remove. That is, stop estimating effort!
Choosing Your Team

Selecting a Software Partner – What to Do When the Estimates Differ

You are down to the final two choices for a software partner, and you have vastly different project cost estimations. What’s your next move?
Project & Team Management

Never Average Story Points!

Estimating work is a difficult process, and coming to consensus can be challenging. But just averaging everyone's points estimates isn't good enough.
Project & Team Management

How to Estimate Big, Scary User Stories

In every backlog I've estimated, I encounter the story that knows no bound. The Un-estimatable Story. Anxiety wells within me at the drawn out conversation about to begin as we get

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