Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. Thesis, University of Southern California, August 2012. 37–48, 2007.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 27, 2018

First let’s keep the concept of ROI basic, which is in this context: Applying this equation to a real-life example, if the cost for rolling out a SMILE activity = $10,000 and the estimated value of the program is $100,000 (considering quantitative and/or qualitative factors such as listed above): This number is not exaggerated.

Software Review 121

Software Review 2004 2012 PMI 121

Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Can All This Formality Have Any Use in Modern Software Development? The notion that agile development is a free-for-all development of what ever the customer wants to produce next, with the customer identifying the next important thing to develop works just fine for de minimus projects. McComb, Deanna M.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. Of late, Cone of Uncertainty has become the mantra of No Estimates advocates claiming that data is needed BEFORE the Cone is of any use.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Scrum/Agile) are more suitable to deal with complex problems because they are more attuned to our cognitive abilities. This will affect all estimates and predictions. This will affect all estimates and predictions. waterfalls) are very likely to fail.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21. By the way, the pure conjecture that agile enables late changing requirements to not have a significant impact on the cost and schedule of the development project is completely lacking any testable evidence outside of personal anecdotes of agile advocates.

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

The fallacy happens when we conclude from this that punishment works, and rewards don’t (Defulio, 2012). When teams estimate work, hearing an initial estimate is likely to “anchor” further estimates. The anchoring bias explains why Planning Poker requires participants to show their estimates at the same time.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Project Management (#APM). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp.

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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. The supposed evidence in the presentation, that estimating "does not work" starts with the Chaos Report. Principle #2 - Shorten the Feedback Cycle .

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Estimate Software Developers 40

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

So here are some books, handbooks, and guides that sit on my shelf that are used pretty much all the time on the Software Intensive System of Systems we work on. But when some statement is made about risk, estimating, performance modeling, or the like - always ask for references. I'm not expecting anyone to read all these books.

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Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. The notion of waterfall development on slide 9 as actually prohibited in our domain. The notion of waterfall development on slide 9 as actually prohibited in our domain. This is called Doing Stupid Things on Purpose (DSTOP). Not likely.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Estimate Development Team Review 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Agile Project Management. Project Management Software & Tools. 19% say Agile techniques. Agile Project Management. 38% of organizations report using agile frequently. [6]. 75% of highly agile organizations met their goals/business intent, 65% finished on time, and 67% finished within budget. Other – 6%.

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2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Workzone

AUGUST 4, 2021

Trello is a weak option for project managers concerned with estimates, budgets, and dependencies. Jira is the flagship product of Australian software developer Atlassian’s. Jira can create great reports for both roadmapping and agile project management. Most teams need more user-friendly software. user/month.

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2021 Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 26

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 16, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Embarking on project estimations can often feel complex - where the path forward is unclear, and the potential for missteps is high. This is where the concept of T-shirt sizing shines as a simple estimation technique. What is T-shirt Sizing?

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Agile Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review 52