Estimation?
Great post on how traditional project management techniques involving estimation at the task level needs to change when we move to an agile environment. Often well seasoned developers don't find this...
View ArticleProducts don?t take resources, effort, and duration
Doing the work to create the products is what takes the resources, effort, and duration. Size of the product is the biggest determinant of how much it will take to create it and must be coupled with...
View ArticleAgile requires changes in the business model
We've been trying to switch to Agile at our company. The biggest problem that I can see is that executive management still wants a reasonable estimate of when the product wil be ready for delivery, and...
View ArticleRE: Comparing traditional and agile project management estimation techniques
Wow Rick, your strong bias toward an agile estimating approach is clearly evident, but I wouldn't recommend throwing the baby out with the bath water just yet.One of the issues my organization deals...
View ArticleCan we get a Agile-
I propose an Agile- methodology. That's Agile minus the daily 2 to 3 hour status meeting and the prep and follow-up time that incurs.
View Article"avoiding accurately matching actuals to estimates"
Confusing estimates with actuals is something that still plagues us.Even if scope is rigidly controlled ( fingers, toes and eyes now firmly crossed), estimates are made when you have the least...
View ArticleNo it requires a change in approach
and a dose of reality.That fixed cost they want before they start is a fiction.It's either based on wild ass guesses, or through spending so much effort making an accurate estimate you've all but done...
View ArticleThere is no change in technique
dependant on lifecycle, just a change in what you are estimating.It's an informed guess based on known information +/- a guess on contingency.All agile does is theoretically increase the amount of...
View ArticleI Like Ike
People who understand how to get things done, naturally gravitate towards a "spiral" or iterative process, because it keeps the focus on controlling what you can reasonably foresee and validating your...
View ArticleAgile made your customers unhappy?
Hello pfarrjam, I was surprised to see your statement "we've been adopting SCRUM and other agile development techniques for a while. This has made the developers happy, but we continue to struggle with...
View ArticleAhh but Tony ...
That doesn't fit into the hype and need to be close minded ... just because you're right is no need to point out that agile always meets it's budget ... but doesn't necessarily deliver anything of...
View ArticleOn target ....
We should start calling you Robin Hood.Estimation is not budgeting. And has only the most rudimentary relationship to implementation methods (Agile version = Est. x F1 & Waterfall = Est. x F2 &...
View ArticleWaterfall delivers...
Well put.You always know when our industry has once again meandered off the path of reason.!This is the best way...."Stop listening at the first .Initial assumption incorrect, rest of piece irrelevant...
View ArticleI wish you were not
correct.I'm afraid there are near as many muppets claiming your profession as there are mine now, proportionately anyway....
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