How do you estimate effort and uncertainty, and which techniques help you reduce delivery risk?
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 5mo
A structured way to estimate effort and manage uncertainty is through the 3C Framework – Clarity, Calibration, and Control. It helps balance speed with confidence in deli...
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Cisco Director of Product Management • 5mo
Honestly, a lot of it comes down to experience….both individual and organizational.We look at what we've built before, what our teams are capable of, and where uncertaint...
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Salesforce Senior Director of Product Management • 5mo
In AI projects, I estimate both effort and uncertainty separately to avoid surprises. Effort covers build time, while uncertainty reflects data quality, model readiness, ...
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Intuit Director of Product Management • 5mo
Success in this area starts with trust and data. Trust: Reducing risk starts with trust within the product triad of product management, engineering and design. This tru...
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GitLab Group Product Manager • 4mo
In my experience, estimating effort is less about getting to a magically precise number and more about creating a shared understanding of what we’re actually building and...
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