Herding Cats

JANUARY 9, 2017

The idea of risk and its management and handling is a critical success factor for all software development. Peter Drucker (1975) Management (From The Principles of Software Engineering , Chapter 6, Tom Glib, 1988). Without these estimates, there is no risk management. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

For example, about which software to buy, which Features in the development backlog should be implemented next, what prices to charge for products and services. Software development is an exercise in microeconomics, since it deals with limited resources - time, cost, and what value is produced in exchange for the time and money.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Increasingly, all enterprises are becoming software-led, which is changing the traditional project management lifecycle into the continuous iterative loop that modern software teams have employed for decades. According to International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates , less than 10% of that data is analyzed.

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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. Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. Software-intensive systems include: .

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

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 ? This variation can be explained by the fact that initial concepts do not describe the final software system accurate enough.

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. When I googled “software development life cycle definition” I found different variants. Phases in Software Development. Examples of Software Development Life Cycles.

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MPUG

MARCH 9, 2020

As a software engineer; however, I was able to easily understand MSP, and it did not take me long to create a schedule for my project. Today, you will find plethora of articles and tutorials on the Internet for learning MSP, but I hope you will find that this article is different. Create WBS using Indent and Outdent.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 4, 2016

When we hear, we can't estimate this because we've never done this before. Or estimating is hard - meaning it's hard for me , and I can't possibly estimate when I don't know how. Or my favorite estimates are a waste, we need to start coding to produce value , these are examples of solving problems from scratch. .

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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 naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The Incremental Commit Spiral Model provides an iterative and incremental framework for complex software intensive system of systems. Agile is certainty more common these days and has moved to Software Intensive System of Systems where I work, but IID has been around a long time. Related articles. 4, December 1975.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. 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

MAY 19, 2017

It is popular to claim we've never done this before, so how can we possibly estimate the cost and schedule. If it truly hasn't been done before, then the software project is likely to be an inventing new physics project. In that world, we still made estimates of the cost to design, build, and operate the experiment.

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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

APRIL 14, 2018

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. For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Software development is Micro, not Macro.

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Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

This is called Software Engineering Economics. Related articles. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Estimating and Making Decisions in Presence of Uncertainty. IT Risk Management.

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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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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used in the software development and IT industry for the past sixteen years, but recently it has gained wide acceptance by many number of industries and organizations. In 2001 a group of software engineers and scientists in IT industry got together and wrote Agile Manifesto.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2016

Elliott could provide answers to these questions to our clients, when he suggests that estimates are worthless. . How many more working demos will be coming before we can go live with the software I'm paying you to build? Related articles. Software Engineering is a Verb. GAO Reports on ACA Site.

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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) ? reducible and irreducible ?

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Workzone

JANUARY 18, 2023

Brightpod They call it “gracious” project management software. It’s specifically built for technicl creatives—such as game developers, UX designers and software engineers. VivifyScrum Software developers and programmers will want to dig into this. Pricing: $6.80-$12.75/month month for 5 users 6. Pricing: $8-$11.50/user/month

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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

MARCH 9, 2017

DeMacro made this post, which has been picked up by the agile community to mean estimating is a waste. . Implicit in the quote (and indeed in the book’s title) is that control is an important aspect, maybe the most important, of any software project. For example in "Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?"

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute. Estimates of cost, schedule, technical performance on the left have a lower probability of being precise and accurate than estimates on the right.

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Wrike

JUNE 3, 2015

As a vendor of project management and collaboration software, we talk to a lot of project managers. Take a few minutes to read this fun article and pick up some communication tips for your team: How to Communicate Like Super Bowl Champions. Workers have to be paid for more time, so your estimated budget goes over.

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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

This was my starting point for becoming a software engineer rather than a physicist, by the way. . You're bad at estimating - WHY? Related articles. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Estimating and Making Decisions in Presence of Uncertainty. Stop talking and go find out why.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

In software this is a HUGE mistake! 1] Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, [link] . [2] Related articles. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Requirements, as traditionally used, are a separation tool. To separate the "thinkers" from the "doers". This conjecture is a fallacy.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Software developers and the IT managers they work for operating in the future. Many of this practitioners view the future as an esoteric, abstract, impractical realm, But the future is where the value of the software is earned. The future is where to cost to develop that software is paid back. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's start with a clear and concise description of the problem of successfully managing projects in the presence of uncertainty: Accurate software cost and schedule estimations are essential for non-trivial software projects. As a software project progresses, more information about the project is known.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). The BLUE bars are the probabilistic ranges of the current estimate date.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). The BLUE bars are the probabilistic ranges of the current estimate date.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

This is used in support of the fallacy that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of uncertanty. Related articles. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Software Engineering is a Verb. The #NoEstimates advocates love to use a Deming quote. IT Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute (in this post, cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Related articles. Economics of Software Development.

Technical Review 28

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. I know I’m going to have a senior software engineer and I want him working on these tasks [inaudible 00:12:15] who that is.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Perhaps you’ve read many blog posts about how horrible SAFe is, or how useless estimation is, or what the optimal size of a team is. What if you recommend teams to stop estimation altogether and cause financial damage compared to when you wouldn’t have recommended this? You may have the practical experience to support your beliefs.

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

When we talk about software project management in a conversation related to the organizational paradigm, it usually comprises of all of the things from software development, documenting the whole process, testing every single element, and delivering the finished product on time. Software Project Management.

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