Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

It's a popular misconception of the agile community that Waterfall is used in any domain outside their own personal experience, and Big Design Up Front (BDUF) and Big Bang Development (BBD) are the only alternatives to Agile. . Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. 4, December 1975. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. These systems were designed and built incrementally and iteratively decades before Agile was even a thought for the authors of the Agile Manifesto.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 13, 2018

Estimation locks down choices early through upfront t decision making, #NoEstimates preserves options. This is the same paradigm of Agile software development where responding to change over following the plan is part of the original manifesto. Aligning Software Investment Decisions with the Markets ," Hakan Erdogmus. "

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

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. First, the Cone of Uncertainty is a Principle used to define the needed reduction in the variances of estimates on Programs. Remember Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

There's a popular phrase in some parts of the agile community that goes like this. Software development is a Value Creaton activity, but Value cannot be determined unless we know the cost to produce that value and when that value will be available for use by those who of paid for that Value. This is the foundation for estimates.

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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

In the agile world, people have datasets from their projects, their friends projects, or made up projects. This was my starting point for becoming a software engineer rather than a physicist, by the way. . You're bad at estimating - WHY? Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

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. requires making estimates) ? De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

1] Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, [link] . [2] Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. . — George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra. [1] 2] " Aligning IT to Organizational Strategy ," . [3] Related articles.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2023

Even if a team is driven by value, agility is compromised when validation and value realization take excessively long. While Agile embodies a mindset defined by specific values and principles, it isn't tied to any particular framework or practice. The key takeaway? How do we reconcile our aspirations with the current reality?

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. Individual contributor team, lead section, lead project manager, program manager, director of engineering. And then team cohesiveness especially in agile environment. By education and training.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

Its simplicity and ease of implementation has made it the most popular version of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) for software engineering and IT projects. The origin of the Waterfall Model is often attributed to the manufacturing and construction industries. Cost estimation. Easy to estimate. Background.

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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. Chakraborty and K.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The #NoEstimates Manifesto - Actually restates Best Practice for estimating and making decisions with those estimates. . Deterministic estimates are point estimates and Point estimates without a Variance are of little value in the presence of uncertainty. Estimates make use of a broad range of models and data .

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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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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. You probably remember the case of the Volkswagen software engineer who was sentenced to prison for writing code that enabled vehicles to pass emissions tests fraudulently.

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Binfire

MARCH 13, 2017

It is the job of the project manager to foresee risks, create an impact estimation and define how to respond to the issues which will arise throughout project life cycle. Regardless of the project management methodology you use like Agile , Waterfall and Hybrid , Gantt chart are indispensable. The corporate world is ruthless.

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