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Agile with Deadlines – Can They Work Together?
Ben Dovey explores ‘agile’ as a broad framework to allow teams to organize themselves, and have two-way conversations with senior stakeholders to determine fixed and variable deadlines.
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#NoProcesses - Getting More Done by Doing Less!
Dave Rooney examines the two key principles common to all successful software delivery approaches and builds outwards based on the experience of the participants.
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Forecasting in Complex Systems
Olga Heismann talks about using Markov Chains.to forecast the progress of a project with multiple entry points.
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Epic Estimation - Agile or High Risk Guesswork?
Ian Hawkins discusses the value in epic estimation, how to handle business expectations, what influences epic estimation and what makes it effective.
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Plan a Project in 10 Minutes - or How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love Little's Law
Chris Young explains how he is using Little’s Law to estimate a project’s delivery rate.
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Forecasting Delivery, with Oranges
Dan Brown explains the difference between forecasting and estimating, and how one can better forecast delivery with less effort and more accuracy than with estimation.
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Estimation for the Real World
Chris Trevarthen discusses how to reduce the amount of time spent estimating, providing more meaningful estimates, and building trust with the business.
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Estimates
Seb Rose wonders if estimates are worthwhile and discusses what business people – Steve McConnell, Demarco, Lister, Disraeli - have to say about this.
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The Great Canadian #NoEstimates Puzzle Experiment
Chris Chapman teaches delivering software without estimates through the Great Canadian #NoEstimates Puzzle Experiment, asking the participants to collaboratively build a jigsaw puzzle.
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The Guessing Game - Alternatives to Agile Estimation and the #NoEstimates Debate
Neil Killick exposes the risks inherent to the estimation culture, proposing practical alternatives for the project and spring level.
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The Guessing Game: Alternatives to Agile Estimation
Neil Killick proposes ways to reduce risk and uncertainty, calculate a product’s price, determine delivery dates and roadmap, do Scrum and XP without using estimates.
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Automated Trend line Generation for Accurate Software Effort Estimation
Karthikeyan Ponnalagu presents Estimation Key Map, an automated technique for software project estimation based on a parametric model using historical data.