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Sean Doran's view on managing IT projects from an Agile and Lean perspective. July 31, 2012. 8220;Our estimates were wrong, should we re-estimate? 8221; It seems like a fair question and it is certainly a common question among teams I consultant with and coach. However, this apparently uncomplicated questions hides a concept that is not nearly as clear as it should be, that is, what do we mean when we say an estimate is ‘wrong’. Second, how many delays will slow or interrupt working on the task? The reas...
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Are Burn Up Charts Additive? | Sean Doran
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Sean Doran's view on managing IT projects from an Agile and Lean perspective. Larr; What are the Pennies in Your Process? The Impact of Unsustainable Pace. Are Burn Up Charts Additive? April 2, 2012. Burn up chart for a team ahead of pace. Their scope is 80 points across eight iterations. Their velocity has consistently been a little over 10 points per iteration so the burn up is projecting an on time completion, perhaps even with some capacity to take on a new story or two. Again their scope is 80 point...
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Is your PMO at the center or the periphery? Or where it belongs? | Sean Doran
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Sean Doran's view on managing IT projects from an Agile and Lean perspective. Larr; The Impact of Unsustainable Pace. Team Tasking in a Retrospective. Is your PMO at the center or the periphery? Or where it belongs? March 20, 2012. As discussed in a previous post. PMOs at the Periphery. The lack of direct responsibility for a team too often means that the PM is not allowed to share accountability for delivery. You might ask how having a PMO at the periphery is different from not having any PMO? Unfortuna...
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Team Tasking in a Retrospective | Sean Doran
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Sean Doran's view on managing IT projects from an Agile and Lean perspective. Larr; Is your PMO at the center or the periphery? Or where it belongs? Sorry, what does your PMO do? Team Tasking in a Retrospective. March 7, 2012. I was recently facilitating a retrospective with a team that I was coaching on adopting Agile principles and practices. We did a Starfish retrospective. And then cycled through action items for the things we had posted on the wall. Won’t human nature mean that no one will do it?
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Plan | The Agile Pirate
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Sailing the Oceans of Corporate Agility. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Short Reads From Elsewhere. Seeing the Value in Task Estimates. April 22, 2015. You might be aware of the ongoing discussions around the #noEstimates movement right now. I have the luxury here of rarely needing to use estimates as commitments to management but I usually. Still ask my teams to estimate their tasks. My consistently positive experiences so far mean I’m unlikely to stop any time soon. We’re als...
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Estimation | The Agile Pirate
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Sailing the Oceans of Corporate Agility. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Short Reads From Elsewhere. Seeing the Value in Task Estimates. April 22, 2015. You might be aware of the ongoing discussions around the #noEstimates movement right now. I have the luxury here of rarely needing to use estimates as commitments to management but I usually. Still ask my teams to estimate their tasks. My consistently positive experiences so far mean I’m unlikely to stop any time soon. We’re als...
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Should we re-estimate? | Sean Doran
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Sean Doran's view on managing IT projects from an Agile and Lean perspective. What are the Pennies in Your Process? July 31, 2012. 8220;Our estimates were wrong, should we re-estimate? 8221; It seems like a fair question and it is certainly a common question among teams I consultant with and coach. However, this apparently uncomplicated questions hides a concept that is not nearly as clear as it should be, that is, what do we mean when we say an estimate is ‘wrong’. The reason is simple. The effort q...
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What are the Pennies in Your Process? | Sean Doran
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Sean Doran's view on managing IT projects from an Agile and Lean perspective. Larr; Should we re-estimate? Are Burn Up Charts Additive? What are the Pennies in Your Process? May 31, 2012. I was intrigued and pleased to see that Canada has recently decided to eliminate pennies from the coinage system. Although not the first country to do so, Canada certainly will not be the last. All for a coin that most Canadians simply toss in a jar when they get home. A worthwhile question for more than pennies. 8230;]...
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Sorry, what does your PMO do? | Sean Doran
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Sean Doran's view on managing IT projects from an Agile and Lean perspective. Larr; Team Tasking in a Retrospective. 2 Sure-Fire Ways for a PM to Ruin a Retrospective. Sorry, what does your PMO do? February 29, 2012. Here is a brief list of the kinds of activities I have seen different enterprise PMOs engage in:. Staffing office for Project Managers. Managing business outcomes based on project deliveries, including change management. Managing coordinated projects within a single program. You are commenti...
