Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

When we hear about software development disasters and then hear that estimates are to blame, and NOT Estimating will somehow reduce or prevent these disasters, think again. Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Integrated Master Plan: The Foundation of Program Success , College of Performance Management, May 21, 2014. Risk Management. Managing in the Presence of Uncertainty and Resulting Risk. Handling Risk on High Technology Programs. Managment Processes.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk.

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MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of John Owen’s showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, presented by Barbecana.

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MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of John Owen’s showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, presented by Barbecana.

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PM Times

APRIL 7, 2021

It will discuss why the Core IT Complexity model is a good approach for most IT organizations and why it is important to determine project complexity as an ongoing and integral part of the Change Management and Risk Management process. It can also indicate potential risks to existing projects. 2014; Lessard et al., Introduction.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. First, let's establish a principle.

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Ron Rosenhead

MARCH 15, 2016

As late as June 2014, TfL’s senior management continued to claim that the project could still be delivered by 2018 despite rail experts suggesting that this was impossible. The Assembly experienced this first-hand.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 28, 2020

Benefits are much harder to estimate but it can still be done, and experienced companies are able to map projected benefits, albeit within wider ranges than for project costs, whilst avoiding the natural tendency to over-estimate those benefits. Schedule and Cost Control Starts with Good Estimates.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As stated in PMI’s Pulse of the Profession® (2014) , inadequate project requirements are the cause of project failure in 37% of organizations. PMs can use this knowledge to estimate the time needed for accomplishing tasks, order them, and allocate resources adequately. Risk Management. Project Requirements .

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 27, 2016

The dashboards give you a snapshot of the project in real time and are ideal for showing a summary of progress, risks and effort on one page – good for project sponsors and other stakeholders who aren’t that good at reading status reports. Reports have the option of exporting data as PDF or Excel, or you can view it online.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 29, 2016

There’s a risk that your team’s projects will sit at 80% complete for quite some time…. Software review: Simplestimate [2016] Find out more about how to make estimating simple with this software review of Simplestimate. If you complete a task it does not automatically change the percent complete of the project. The Bubble Chart.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Risk Management (#RM). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. But in fact, risk management is part of the other 4 principles as well. Table of Contents (Click the Name to go to Section). Management Processes (#MP).

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

64% of organizations say they frequently conduct risk management. [6]. Managing small, low-risk projects. Managing medium-size, moderate-risk projects. Estimated Project-Oriented Job Openings 2010-2020: . Undefined risks/opportunities – 30%. Inadequate cost estimates – 29%. March, 2014. 2% — Other.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Of course, all three of these are operating in the presence of uncertainty and therefore require estimates to be made. Estimates of the aleatory and epistemic uncertainties that create risk to the delivered Value need to be handled. 1] "Selecting Attributes to Measure the Achievement of Objectives ," Ralph L.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Continuous Integration: Verification and Validation in an Agile Environment FAA Verification and Validation Summit 2014," Nick Bartlow, Ph.D. And of course, each of these domains operates in the presence of reducible and irreducible uncertainty requiring Risk Management processes. Each of these can be found with Google.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Some feel that the cone does not provide any value for the work they do and does not match the reducing uncertainty in their estimates. This letter states.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. The CoU is a build-to paradigm, where measures of the program's performance cumulative to date is used to inform the risk for future performance. This usually results in a project's actual costs far outrunning the optimistic estimates and creating a large overrun.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. A #Noestimates advocate makes the claim that having a ±10% accuracy for estimates of cost and duration is a dangerous thing. Define the probabilistic ranges of the work in a single point estimate manner. What is the Value at Risk for your Project?

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering provides an approach to making the decision about what's in the ConOps and its format based on some Systems Engineering analysis of criteria: Program risks - reducible and irreducible uncertainties that create these risks. IT Risk Management. Related articles.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World. However, while this book covers basics like estimating and planning projects, where it shines is in covering the soft skills of project management. Published date: 2014. Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.

2020 148

2020 Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 148

Wrike

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Bimodal IT is a concept that was first introduced by leading global IT research firm Gartner in 2014. Implementing this IT mode in small iterations prevents huge losses, risks, and large-scale issues from occurring. A bimodal IT strategy can lead to losses and expose your business to risks without proper management and execution.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Using this method, the performance, cost, time, and risks of alternatives can be articulated as ratios that can then be compared with one another. This decision model for software development projects addressed: performance, cost, time, and risk. The risks related to performance, cost, and time must also be considered.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

If you're not an expert, you're not going to recognize the possible solutions, risks, impediments, and opportunities for the problems you'll encounter in developing a solution that has never been developed before. maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help. For software development starts with.

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Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2017

The other statistical issue is the chart showing #Noestimates versus other types of estimates. But the sample space of the total population of projects with #Noestmates as their estimating technique is only 3% of the total population. Maybe 11 to 12 for No Estimates and maybe some less than 15 for Light Weight Scrum, say 13. .

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

If we take Tim Lister's advice about managing risk while spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty, where is the adult supervision here? . . These are classic examples from an author who is either unskilled, untrained, and inexperienced in estimating software development. The Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Estimation is part of project management. . The most important estimates for the project manager are related to time and cost. . Since it is easier to estimate small tasks, these estimates are often calculated and performed as point estimates, for example, a task will take 3 days. My proposal is don't estimate.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JULY 18, 2019

Of course, such mega-failures are more interesting that minor-failures, but most experienced project managers might find an echo within their own projects of examples such as that of SNCF who ordered 2000 new trains in 2014, only to find that they did not fit all the stations. The Project Canvas.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes. A second Critical Success Factor is the ability to predict what will happen in the future given the model of the project's activities and risks and the alternative designed as well as emerging designs and external processes. . 1-11, January 2014.

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Resource Guru

JUNE 23, 2023

Plus, the risk of human error is just far too great. Founded in 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel, by Eran Zinman and Roy Man, monday.com was launched to the public in 2014. The issue with task-based project management tools is that you run the risk of ignoring resource availability and capacity before assigning tasks.

Software Review 52

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Workzone

JANUARY 29, 2019

According to the Human Capital Institute, employee disengagement is estimated to cost the US economy as much as 350 billion dollars per year in lost productivity, accidents, theft, and turnover. Not only will there be frustrating back-and-forth but also the risk of miscommunication that’d derail an entire project.

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Sudipta Lahiri

MARCH 16, 2014

The Pune Chapter Meet of the Limited WIP Society was held on Mar 8, 2014. Estimate upfront (high level) and understand the feasibility of delivering. Avoid detailed estimation, planning to man hour level and then getting into variance tracking. It was based on estimates and we all understand that estimates are dead on arrival!So,

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MPUG

JANUARY 9, 2020

So we’re going to build a project plan, build a risk plan. And this is the idea that if you’re in dynamics and you’re doing a CRM kind of a proposal or an estimator, you’ve got work coming in. So notice while I’m in here, I’m just able to pull up document libraries, issues and risks.

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