Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

Underestimating software engineering costs could result in management approving proposed systems that potentially exceed budget allocations, or underdeveloped functions with poor quality, or a failure to complete a project on time. The Economics of Software Quality , Capers Jone, and Olivier Bonsignou. No Estimates?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What is the Plan to reach done at the needed time for the needed budget, with the needed outcomes? 6] "Chapter 12: Software Engineering Economics," Software Engineering Body of Knowledge , .

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Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

I spent the week speaking at the College of Performance Management conference where government and industry come together to work on the issues of cost, schedule, and technical performance management process improvement needed to increase the probability of program success. Who's Budget is it Anyway? Software Engineering is a Verb.

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Software Engineering Performance Measurement Finance Manufacturing 28

Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

Or plan on being late, over budget, and reduced probability of technical success, before you start. This is called Software Engineering Economics. All Value is Cost and Time dependent. Related articles. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. IT Risk Management.

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Cadence Software Engineering Estimate Manufacturing 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

This is a recurring theme of #NoEstimates it's a waste to me the developer, I'd rather be coding , I'm not good at estimating , I see no value in my making estimating when you're just going to use them against me when I'm late and over budget. This notion shows that governance is not considered a requirement for the business.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. When you hear I have data that shows the uncertainty doesn't reduce , then that project is out of control and will be late, over budget, and likely not perform to the needed effectiveness and performance parameters. The processes is an engineering discipline.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Estimate Software Engineering 28

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.

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Process Estimate Software Developers Software Development 45

MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day.

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Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Governance 52

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. When you hear I have data that shows the uncertainty (or any other needed attribute) doesn't reduce , then that project is out of control and will be late, over budget, and likely not perform to the needed effectiveness and performance parameters. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

We can estimate the total cost, total duration, and the probability that all the Features will be delivered on the program we are working for the US Government. Or ANY software project for that matter. Showing up late, over budget, and with missing Capabilities is not what the customer paid for. Let's Look at What a Forecast is.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. This is the paradigm of the Cone of Uncertainty - it's a planned development compliance engineering tool, not an after the fact data collection tool. The Engineering Reason for the Cone of Uncertainty Model and the Value it Provides the Designing Makers.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. This is the paradigm of the Cone of Uncertainty - it's a planned development compliance engineering tool, not an after the fact data collection tool. The Engineering Reason for the Cone of Uncertainty Model and the Value it Provides the Designing Makers.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. This is the paradigm of the Cone of Uncertainty - it's a planned development compliance engineering tool, not an after the fact data collection tool. The Engineering Reason for the Cone of Uncertainty Model and the Value it Provides the Designing Makers.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You start selling software licenses, you disrupt the whole way of selling. The whole value chain beyond just the engineering piece gets disrupted. You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze. That software itself was one big business, one big p and l for the client.

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Technical Review Software Review Engineering Infrastructure 62

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You start selling software licenses, you disrupt the whole way of selling. The whole value chain beyond just the engineering piece gets disrupted. You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze. That software itself was one big business, one big p and l for the client.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Software Review Engineering Infrastructure 62

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

If the parameter of interest is not being reduced as needed, go find out why and fix it, or you'll be late, over budget, and the technical outcome unacceptable. Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone of Uncertanty does NOT need data to validate it is the correct paradigm. Prentice-Hall, 1981. .

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For instance, an individual having a software engineering degree might not be a great fit for a customer service role. Or, they might have decent design skills but lack other hard skills needed to accomplish projects within budget using the tools your clients require. The difference between soft vs. hard skills. Test for both!

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Artificial Inteligence 52

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. Nonprofit project management software. Examples: Toggl Plan and GanttPRO.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Technical Review Construction 52

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Complexity Primer (Sandia).

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . The Design Structure Matrix .

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

This Does Not Scale - If there are software development projects that can be executed without knowing how much it will cost in the end (an open ended spend plan), or projects where the budget is capped (a Not To Exceed Number) and we don't really need to know the upper bound of the features to be delivered, how large can this notion scale?

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Estimate Risk Management Finance Software Developers 39

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

“Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. Newnes, A.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 7, 2023

What’s the problem with recruiting software developers? The demand for software developers far outweighs the available supply, making it a real challenge to find the right candidates. To make matters worse, top-notch software engineers know their worth and often expect handsome salaries.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review CTO Hire Software Review Software Engineering 52

MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

And then determine if the proposed change can be accommodated within the fiscal and technical resources of the budget? Performing requirements traceability analysis is an important part of software engineering. They are generally going to be reviewed as requested by a governing body, for impact on the in process work.

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Monitoring Controlling Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

Although the term “automated testing” is questionable , test automation continues to be a strong focus in software delivery these days. There’s even a special job title, “Automation Engineer,” which doesn’t particularly imply much about either automation or engineering, as far as I can tell.

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