article thumbnail

Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

For at least twenty years and counting, the world around us has become more and more software driven, and, as a result, more digital. Electric vehicles are about 50% software, in terms of value, whereas fossil fuel cars are mostly hardware. Banks have essentially been software developing organizations for a long time.

article thumbnail

A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Five Immutable Principles of Project Success , PMI Spring Seminar, 2021, Austin TX. Five Principles of Project Success , PMI, Northern Utah Chapter, Professional Development Day, 2012. Applying Deliverables Based Planning ® To Increase Our Probability of Success , PMI Fort Worth, Chapter Meeting, 15 July 2010.

2003 54
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? Steve McConnell. Quantifying IT Forecast Quality,” J. Eveleens and C. GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide," GAO-09-3SP.

2012 48
article thumbnail

Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Number of PMI Certified Project Managers: Total Number of PMP credential holders: 607,128. # PMI Agile Certified Practitioner holders: 5,265. [14]. Project Management Software & Tools. 77% of companies use project management software, and 87% of high-performing companies use project management software. [5].

2015 60
article thumbnail

Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

255, April 2010. Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. 24, 2010. “A Overcoming Barriers in Assessing Risk Probabilities,” Tom Kendrick , 2012 PMI Global Congress Proceedings , 2012. 920, November 2004.

article thumbnail

A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. 255, April 2010. 24, 2010. “A Kwak and J.

article thumbnail

A Better Microsoft Project: Workload Levelling and Resource-Critical Path

MPUG

Examples are software development, new product development, pharmaceutical clinical studies, telecommunication, research and development, education, and government projects. Starting with the 2010-release, Microsoft Project could find the 19?day SuperProject used multiple algorithms to find the tightest schedule.

2010 52