Last year with Dragos we embarked on establishing a working group, a website (http://agilecfo.fr), a seminar around #noestimates, #beyondbudgeting. Definitively convinced that the budgetary part, intimately linked to the “estimation” part, was an essential element of a real change of direction for modern management of organizations.
Just yesterday I was able to note the decisive difference between a commitment of means rather than results in the well-being of a cell, an outsourced agile department.
You can note every day the deviations initially taken by projects, by products, solely because the starting point is distorted: the budgetary question, the estimative commitment that became definitive, etc.
For this Dragos and myself closely follow these reflections around #noestimates and #beyondbudgeting. We try to be ambassadors of these new ways of thinking. For this we have started some in-house seminars, here are the slides. Nothing original, it’s essentially a work of consolidation and translation (from English). All the links from which we take this information are in the slides, and here below is an extracted list.
THE SLIDES: AGILE CFO - NOESTIMATES - BEYONDBUDGETING
- https://www.infoq.com/fr/presentations/lkfr-vasco-duarte-noestimates
- https://www.bergen-chamber.no/visageimages/Pdf_files/bjarte_bogsnes_bb.pdf
- https://www.slideshare.net/YvesHanoulle/no-estimates2015
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law
- http://ajiro.fr/articles/2016/10/04/no_estimates.html
- http://ajiro.fr/articles/2017/01/16/simplifiez_votre_organisation.html
- https://www.leadingagile.com/2015/06/an-introduction-to-cost-of-delay/
- http://www.stevemcconnell.com/est.htm
- http://uk.businessinsider.com/cognitive-biases-that-affect-decisions-2015-8?r=US&IR=T
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