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Better Project Forecasts without Estimates – The Monte Carlo

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Summary

Adrian Fittolani introduces the Monte Carlo Simulation, an empirical mathematical method used to estimate project timelines.

Bio

Adrian Fittolani is a father, a runner, a developer, a guitarist, a handyman, a speaker, a sports coach, a dressmaker, a husband, a mechanic, a trainer and the Program Director at Envato. He considers himself to be good at only three of these things. A different three, depending on the week. He has a 16 years career in software, and is a member of Melbourne’s tech and agile community.

About the conference

Bringing together technology leaders from across Australia, the Agile Australia 2016 audience is a mixture of project and team leaders, coaches, software developers, testers, business analysts and the executive managers from the biggest enterprises to the youngest startups.

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Nov 06, 2016

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  • There is a way to estimate the number of stories for your new project

    by Dimitar Bakardzhiev,

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    Adrian,

    You advised the audiernce to consider that number of stories are input to Monte Carlo simulation.

    In this InfoQ article www.infoq.com/articles/probabilistic-project-si... I present how to forecast the number of stories for your project.

    Cheers,
    Dimitar

  • Spreadsheet Link

    by Adrian Fittolani,

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    From Adrian (the presenter) - Here's a link to the written accompaniment to this talk. It contains access to the spreadsheet I mention for you to copy and try for yourself.

    scrumage.com/blog/2015/09/agile-project-forecas...

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