Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

This is the foundation for estimates. Estimates with accuracy and precision values needed to make credible decisions. These estimates are critical to both developers and customers. These estimates are used for generating requests for proposals, contract negotiations, scheduling, monitoring, and control.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

All making things smaller dos is show that you're late, over budget, and what you're building (Technical Performance Measures) doesn't work faster. 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. No References?

Risk Management 43

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Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis. Showing up late and over budget does not produce the needed Value.

Process 45

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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 sampling rate to maintain control must be matched with the processes change rate. Let me point out an obvious problem - software projects go over budget and are late.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Project tracking software helps you: Understand if you’re on track to meet task, milestone, and project deadlines Time tracking Compare estimated vs. actual efforts and costs Adjust plans quickly if you’re not on schedule or within the budget. Workflow management software. Example: OrangeScrum.

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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. This early work took me into other fields of engineered systems. Software-intensive systems include: . This is called engineering the solution.

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Workzone

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s specifically built for technicl creatives—such as game developers, UX designers and software engineers. Geared towards engineers, Planio has issue tracking, version control, help desk capabilities, wikis and chat capabilities. Favro Gamers or rather game developers, you may want to check out Favro.

2023 52

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. All project work operates in the presence of uncertainty.

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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.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Estimate Software Engineering 28

Teamweek

OCTOBER 20, 2022

You may think that nailing down project specifications early on is the best way to control costs and budgets. But Waterfall projects fail to accommodate and control the major problems affecting your bottom line. Bite-sized sprints that are time-tracked —sprints give agencies greater visibility and control over their resources.

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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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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow, through some unstated process of correction or prevention, fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. The sampling rate to maintain control must be matched with the processes change rate. Not likely.

Underperforming Technical Team 28

Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Estimate Development Team Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

The infrastructure removal program meant installing a complete wireless umbrella across several 100 square miles of property with full encrypted security while maintaining voice, data, first responder, physical, and cyber control. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. So how do we get ±10% accuracy?

Estimate 42

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The conjecture that we can make decisions in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impacts of those decisions is without any principles that can be tested beyond personal anecdotes of I know people who spend other peoples money without providing estimates. We need to learn how to predict with credible methods.

Estimate 39

Estimate Risk Management Finance Software Developers 39

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

The infrastructure removal program meant installing a complete wireless umbrella across several 100 square miles of property with full encrypted security while maintaining voice, data, first responder, physical, and cyber control. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Almost impossible?

Estimate 37

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

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.

Risk Management 38

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

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. This community of program controls, cost analyst, earned value managers and program managers is accountable for providing information to decision makers on enterprise and complex projects and programs.

Software Engineering 28

Software Engineering Performance Measurement Finance Manufacturing 28

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). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

requires making estimates) ? Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

Risk Management 35

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

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

MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Please send those over at any time using the chat question box on the “go to webinar” control panel where we do plan to answer those questions for you throughout the session today. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. This was from last week.

Performance Measurement 59

Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Engineering 59

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). Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

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. Closed Loop Stochastic Adaptive control in the presence of Evolving Uncertainty. This extended post covers.

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Paymo App

JANUARY 25, 2018

By precisely measuring employee time records, project managers will be able to make better time estimates for future projects. Consider what your budget is and if getting a time tracker will improve your work and bring you more profit to cover its costs. This can speed up your work in the early stages of the time tracker’s use.

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

Monitoring and Controlling. In this case, project planning boils down to identifying project scope, estimates of time and costs, and setting milestones. In the end, you need requirements that software engineers will understand. Such approach doesn’t exempt you from delivering the project on-time and within budget.

Software Developers 67

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 67

MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

Kyle: If you have any questions during today’s presentation, please send those over at any time using the chat question box on the go to webinar control panel. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. By education and training.

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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. An unattended CI/CD pipeline requires all environments to be built on demand based on configuration scripts that are maintained under version control alongside the application code and test code. But only a few.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Development Team Review 69