Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Agile Estimating and Planning Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Agile Estimating and Planning related project.
Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.
The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Agile Estimating and Planning specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Agile Estimating and Planning Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…
- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
Then find your goals...
STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track
Featuring 996 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Agile Estimating and Planning improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:
- What are the primary factors that make software cost estimation challenging and what can be done to improve your cost estimates and accurately track the progress of Agile software development?
- What is used to provide a simple medium for gathering basic information about stories, recording high level requirements, developing work estimates, and defining acceptance tests?
- Do the initial user stories adequately reflect the known end user project priorities, tempered by any programmatic constraints that have been shared with the estimator?
- What estimation technique is an Agile team using when collectively estimating the relative size of its stories using story points?
- How do you estimate your understanding A through analysis is performed on the data collected of Agile Methodologies?
- Who is responsible for tracking progress within a Sprint in order to estimate the probability of achieving the goal?
- Does the platform support robust visibility into the entire project lifecycle, from planning to project delivery?
- What are the basic characteristics of user story that can affect effort estimation in Agile software development?
- Which estimation technique can be used in Agile project delivery to size the user stories during sprint planning?
- What are the advantages associated with adopting and implementing more flexible and Agile planning processes?
Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:
- The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Agile Estimating and Planning book in PDF containing 996 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Agile Estimating and Planning self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:
- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Agile Estimating and Planning Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Agile Estimating and Planning areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
- Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
- Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Agile Estimating and Planning Self-Assessment
- Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
- Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:
STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy
The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Agile Estimating and Planning projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Agile Estimating and Planning Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Agile Estimating and Planning project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Source Selection Criteria: Are they compliant with all technical requirements?
- Source Selection Criteria: What benefits are accrued from issuing a DRFP in advance of issuing a final RFP?
- Planning Process Group: To what extent do the intervention objectives and strategies of the Agile Estimating and Planning project respond to your organizations plans?
- Lessons Learned: Which estimation issues did you personally have and what was the impact?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: Can you perform this task or activity in a more effective manner?
- Risk Management Plan: Have top software and customer managers formally committed to support the Agile Estimating and Planning project?
- Contract Close-Out: Was the contract sufficiently clear so as not to result in numerous disputes and misunderstandings?
- Scope Management Plan: What are the risks of not having good inter-organization cooperation on the Agile Estimating and Planning project?
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Is accountability placed at the lowest-possible level within the Agile Estimating and Planning project so that decisions can be made at that level?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Why do you think schedule issues often cause the most conflicts on Agile Estimating and Planning projects?
Step-by-step and complete Agile Estimating and Planning Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Agile Estimating and Planning project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Agile Estimating and Planning project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Agile Estimating and Planning project Scope Statement
- 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
- 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
- 2.9 WBS Dictionary
- 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
- 2.11 Activity List
- 2.12 Activity Attributes
- 2.13 Milestone List
- 2.14 Network Diagram
- 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
- 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
- 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
- 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
- 2.19 Agile Estimating and Planning project Schedule
- 2.20 Cost Management Plan
- 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
- 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
- 2.23 Cost Baseline
- 2.24 Quality Management Plan
- 2.25 Quality Metrics
- 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
- 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
- 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
- 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
- 2.30 Communications Management Plan
- 2.31 Risk Management Plan
- 2.32 Risk Register
- 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
- 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
- 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
- 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
- 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
- 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
- 2.39 Change Management Plan
3.0 Executing Process Group:
- 3.1 Team Member Status Report
- 3.2 Change Request
- 3.3 Change Log
- 3.4 Decision Log
- 3.5 Quality Audit
- 3.6 Team Directory
- 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
- 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
- 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
- 3.10 Issue Log
4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:
- 4.1 Agile Estimating and Planning project Performance Report
- 4.2 Variance Analysis
- 4.3 Earned Value Status
- 4.4 Risk Audit
- 4.5 Contractor Status Report
- 4.6 Formal Acceptance
5.0 Closing Process Group:
- 5.1 Procurement Audit
- 5.2 Contract Close-Out
- 5.3 Agile Estimating and Planning project or Phase Close-Out
- 5.4 Lessons Learned
Results
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Agile Estimating and Planning project with this in-depth Agile Estimating and Planning Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Agile Estimating and Planning projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
- Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
- Integrate recent advances in Agile Estimating and Planning and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.
Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Agile Estimating and Planning investments work better.
This Agile Estimating and Planning All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.
Includes lifetime updates
Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
