Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. There are not specific to Agile Software Development. Either a Cadence Release Plan or a Capabilities Release Plan. These describe the increasing maturity of the project's artifacts. But here's how they are connected. Capture All Activities.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

As we will see, agile methods are, to a degree, a response to the kind of risks that software development projects face. What agile adds to this, therefore, is a distinct cadence of its own iterations or drawdowns of tasks into the Work in Progress part of the Kanban Board. This is the uncertainty of the end product.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Third, how are we reproducing working tests in software? When people make such statements, they usually mean that they have trained product owners and a proficient Scrum master, and their team consistently follows the cadence of sprint planning, daily stand-ups, interviews, and retrospectives. First, how are we forming teams?

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

While profit is not their goal, usually an economic impact figure can be estimated for the outcomes they aim to achieve. That could take two weeks and cost $100,000 when factoring in the new software license, the team's burn rate, and the cost of delay to the organization. The Economics of Risk Management.

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MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

It’s usually based on a cadence. As shown in the above figure, there is no regular timeboxed iteration, but incremental delivery can happen in cadence. When Inaccurate Estimation Results in Delayed Delivery. Estimates are often inaccurate because they are made in absolute numbers. This is depicted in the below figure.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

They hypothesized that estimating the cards and doing burn-down charts would increase throughput. That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. The caveat is that you had to start producing working tested software within a few weeks.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Agile ceremonies — also known as Scrum ceremonies or just ‘events’ — are specific events that provide a structured framework for iterative software development processes. Agile is an umbrella term for different iterative and feedback-driven software development processes. Update user stories to properly estimate tasks.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. Updating project management software to keep their team on track 9. But there’s a problem. Creating actionable project plans 5. Assessing and mitigating project risks 7.

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Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

It is for large-scale software development teams of 50-125 people on multiple projects but wants to still adopt the best Agile practices, despite their size. Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation :- SAFe reemphasizes and uses working software as the means of progress towards achieving the objectives.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

Estimate task time and effort. What is the best project scheduling software to use? But to correctly estimate start and end times , you first need to know what needs to be done at a high level, what resources you’ll require, and a basic outline of their order. Identify any and all project stakeholders. What needs to be done?

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

Likewise, there are defined, repeatable IT projects that can (and have been) successfully managed using meticulous planning, detailed estimation, and formal change control procedures. Here, formal planning and estimation are difficult because we don’t know what we will encounter. Integrating with the COTS software was a hybrid process.

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Wrike

MAY 23, 2023

Agile methodology has emerged as a dominant approach to software development as it offers several advantages compared to traditional methods. The Product Owner presents the product backlog, while the team estimates the amount of work that can be completed during the sprint. Let Wrike elevate your project performance today.

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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? And do this according the plan described in the Product Roadmap, using the Cadence or Capability Release Plan?

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2018

Let’s say that on average stakeholders request a couple of large items, a couple of medium-sized ones, and five small ones in any given cadence, iteration, release, or whatever unit of time your organization uses for such matters. In a typical cadence, stakeholders ask you to complete 12.5 things, and you agree.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Acceptable variances, reporting cadence, and status meetings are addressed in the plan. Team size is known, and the project duration can be time-boxed which simplifies estimating the project’s time and cost and monitoring its performance. Agile projects are fundamentally different.

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Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

This is called Software Engineering Economics. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Herding Cats: Capabilities Release or Cadence Release. Herding Cats: Capabilities Release or Cadence Release. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. Let's look at one example.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

In our Software Intensive System of Systems world, we are not 5 people sitting around the table with the customer building a warehouse management application for our privately help gadget making company. Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release paradigm, is a flow-based approach.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

An unattended software delivery pipeline frees technical staff to spend more time on value-add activities rather than tediously performing repetitive tasks by hand, such as. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Building software.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

To prevail in today’s game of an accelerated innovation-based competition—software is eating the world—, every organization needs to acquire a holistic understanding of an agile product creation process: A vision leads to a strategy that (probably) results in a portfolio of products (and services).

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Herding Cats

JULY 27, 2017

Like the agile incremental house cartoon, or the bicycle morphing into a car, NO discussion of the incremental or iterative development of software can take place without a Product Roadmap and Release plan. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Then those words are just hollow buzz words. .

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 13, 2018

Technical teams who are building or supporting application software usually work from a prioritized list of improvements, new features, and ideas to try out. ” In the Old Days, the expectation was that building software was just like building anything else. New software appears at the end of the line like clockwork.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. As I was introduced, I was a software and programming instructor for many years. What’s deliverable, cadence, project phase? It makes sense.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

As the world of business increases in complexity, it will take more than user stories, estimation, and OKRs to build a trustworthy system that management can delegate into. And teams have a cadence where they’re operating with intent but within constraints. This is going to be hard, this is going to be easy. What would you go do?

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Planio

MARCH 20, 2020

Not only that but finding the right cadence of communication can feel like a Goldilocks situation. According to one estimate , up to 90 percent of the time in a project is spent on communication by the project manager. Project management software that offers communication tools. Project management processes already in place.

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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

Without resource management tools that let you allocate your budget accordingly, you could easily exceed your initial estimate. In other words, proper project management — and the software you use for assistance — can help you turn the art of juggling tasks and projects into a science.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 23, 2016

The Plan for the delivery of value is shown in the Product Roadmap and implemented in the Cadence Release Plan, or sometimes in the Capabilities Release plan. But when we enter the Agile At Scale domain - ERP, Enterprise IT, Software Intensive System of Systems - we've got a separate issue. Deliver as planned. And that's fine.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

From the questioner’s post, it is not clear if their team is doing production support or software/ app dev. We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deloyed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. On the one hand, the delivery team is not able to precisely estimate when it can deliver a release.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

From the questioner’s post, it is not clear if their team is doing production support or software/ app dev. We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deployed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. On the one hand, the delivery team is not able to precisely estimate when it can deliver a release.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Agile Software Development (#ASD). Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

Now, let’s talk about why estimating in hours is absolutely critical for what they’re responsible for and what cannot be done without it. Executives aren’t solely focused on delivering software to customers. It’s crucial to get the executives to stop thinking that way. Let’s consider predictability.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

So the first lens or the first set of foundational things that we’re going to talk about when it comes to predictability is the idea of the three things, teams, backlogs, working tested software. We typically want to have those stories estimated, right? But you guys get the idea, right, software. Why is that important?

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.” High WIP levels and failure to recognize delivery capacity, identify scarce resources, and consider estimates led to intense pressure to deliver late in the project schedule. What has changed?

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Leading Agile

JUNE 5, 2018

This gives them confidence that the development team knows what they’re doing, so they won’t need to ask for revised estimates every day for the next umpteen months. This could be the only Story the team tackles in their first development cadence or iteration or Sprint or what-have-you. My Github URL was [link].

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

The roles, the ceremonies, the artifacts, the cadences, all those different things that we model as implementation details. Are we doing story point estimating or are we using planning poker? It happened with RUP, it happens with SAFe, it happens with Scrum, it happens with everything. Is there a product owner? Are we doing reviews?

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And so I was thinking about Scrum and so I just lifted this off of Mike Cone’s website and it’s attributed, so I hope he doesn’t mind too much mountain good software. So the software version of that, what we found is if we can just get predictable using agile methods first, we’re in the game.

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