Effort Estimation: how to estimate and get better every day
What you'll learn
- How to estimate in AGILE projects
- Learn how to get make estimations
- Learn the most used estimation techniques
- PLANNING POKER
- Learn WHAT and HOW can affect the estimations
- Learn how to verify that your effort estimates are correct
- Learn what is bases of the estimations principle and how can it improve your project estimates
- Learn what are main causes of effort deviations and what you can do to avoid them
- Learn to document your effort estimates
Requirements
- PC, Internet
- Basic project management knowledge
Description
When I started my career effort estimates were such a nightmare for me. They were really keeping me up at night and I was thinking what can I do to get it right. In the last decade since I've been working as a project manager, I tried a lot of effort estimation techniques. Some have been working for me, some didn't.
In this class I'm sharing with you the knowledge and experience that I learn in over 10 years:
- Methods of estimations which I use and that gave me the best results in over 100 projects that I managed
- My methods of crosschecking that the effort estimated in projects are covering the team effort and entire company is sustainable
- My secret principle that I use every day to estimate and to get better: bases of the estimation principle
- Analysis of the most common causes of effort deviations and how to apply the bases of the estimation principle in each situation
- How to can improve your effort estimations
In this class I bring 2 innovative principles:
1. Document your estimations - bases of the estimations principle
2. Keep the baseline you based your estimations on - because if the conditions don't change there is a high change your estimations will be right
Is this course for you?
- Do you want to learn the most effective and proven estimation techniques?
- Do you want to learn to verify if your effort estimations are correct?
- Do you want to learn what's the bases of the estimation principle and how did I apply it successfully in over 100 projects?
- Do you want to learn how the bases of the estimation principle can save you hundreds of thousands of dollars?
- Do you want to learn how to prevent deviations from the estimations?
- Do you want to learn how the environment will affect your estimates and will ruin your project budget? And HOW TO AVOID THAT?
YES! YES! YES! Let's do it!
See you in the class.
Anca
Who this course is for:
- Project team members
- Project Managers
- Business Owners
- Entrepreneurs
- Managers
Instructor
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- 11 Courses
Anca's been working on projects for over a decade. She has worked all around the world, except Antarctica. Anca has a special appetite to project manage trouble projects. Every year she turns many failed projects into success stories.
When she's not fixing standstill projects, she is managing innovative projects which sometimes turn out to become world benchmarks. Anca's project management approach made was recognised by IPMA as being in the top league in international project management. And.. recently she started to pack her knowledge in courses. If you have any suggestion of a class you'll like to learn about. Drop a message, we'll make it happen.
Anca's project manager profile:
Biggest project management consultancy success: Judges Commendation for Youth Project Manager of the Year Award 2014
Biggest project management failure: "Lima diferente", a project which never got to see the day light.
65+ countries she's been managing remote projects from.
Certifications:
PMP
Scrum Master Certification
ITIL
SAFe Program Consultant