Estimate Software Delivery With Confidence
Commit to achievable software releases by grounding realistic expectations.
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An ineffective estimation practice will lead to:
- Unrealistic and unachievable delivery expectations with the business.
- Distrust between the delivery team and stakeholders, which leads to gaming and inflating estimates.
- Estimates that do not accommodate key risks and assumptions, jeopardizing the successful delivery.
A collaborative, data-driven, and analytical estimation practice can:
- Produce estimates that support and provide insights for key business and delivery decisions.
- Establish reasonable estimation variation tolerances with stakeholders.
- Justify team estimates by clarifying the scope of the backlog item.
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
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The Purpose
- Discuss the decisions that estimates will help make.
- Level set estimation expectations by clarifying what they can and cannot do.
- Review the current state of your estimation practice.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Grounded understanding of estimation that is accepted by all audiences and stakeholders.
- Identification of whether estimation practices are the root cause of estimation challenges or a symptom of a different issue.
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| 1.1 | Define estimation expectations. |
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| 1.2 | Reveal your root cause challenges. |
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Module 2: Build Your Estimation Practice
The Purpose
- Discuss the estimation and planning practices used in the industry.
- Define the appropriate tactics to use to make key business and delivery decisions.
- Simulate the tactics to verify and validate their fit with your teams.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Knowledge of good practices that can improve the effectiveness of your estimates and plans.
- Practice using new tactics.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Ground estimation fundamentals. |
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| 2.2 | Strengthen your analysis tactics. |
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| 2.3 | Strengthen your estimation tactics. |
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| 2.4 | Commit and communicate delivery. |
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| 2.5 | Simulate your target state planning and estimation tactics. |
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Module 3: Define Your Optimization Roadmap
The Purpose
- Review the scope and achievability of your improved estimation and planning practice.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Realistic and achievable estimation optimization roadmap.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Mature your estimation practice. |
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