Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

A project activity can be defined as the smallest unit of work that needs to be done in order to complete a project. This refers to the various schedules and costs defined at the start of a project. It defines a set of activities that need to be done in order to complete the project in time and as per the pre-defined schedule. .

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable.

Performance Measurement 35

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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. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.

Technical Review 35

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A product manager, who works for a large aircraft manufacturing organization in the United States, follows a hybrid model of development and, with his team, releases a new version of aircraft handling software every couple of weeks. In EVM terminology, baseline is further defined as the performance measurement baseline (PMB).

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

Technical Review 28

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

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 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). This is due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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). This is due to many reasons, one is levels of uncertainty early in the project.

Technical Review 28

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

These frameworks involve the use of statistical techniques, probability theory, and mathematical formulas to estimate the likelihood and impact of risks, calculate expected values, and determine risk exposure. These objectives serve as a roadmap for organizations, helping them define and prioritize their risk management activities.

Risk Management 36

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

This involves defining product requirements, conducting market analysis, managing product life cycles, and prioritizing features to maximize customer satisfaction and competitive advantage. Pulse of the profession: Success rates rise: Transforming the high cost of low performance (Report No. Harvard Business Review.

Governance 52

Governance Government Technical Review Sustainability 52

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. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM).

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Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

A recent lawsuit by Hertz Rental Car against Accenture has turned into a rallying cry by Agilest and No Estimates advocates. Of course, No Root Cause analysis has been performed by these advocates, but it makes good click bait for their followers. Were there: Measures of Effectiveness. Hertz spent months planning the project.

Software Review 41

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each 'activity' is the smallest unit of work that can be performed within the scope of the project. Activity ID: An alphanumeric code used to identify an activity. Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Progress: The actual current progress of the project compared to the estimated project baselines.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Activity Duration Estimates Review . is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. Analogous Estimating . Automated Code Coverage Report . Bottom-Up Estimating .

Software Review 45

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Wrike

AUGUST 30, 2021

Without the right software to organize all the project information, projects can go off track — so having a PMIS (or project management information system) comes in handy. A PMIS is a software program or application that organizes and controls the flow of project data and information. Project review and closure stage.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Activity Duration Estimates Review . is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. Analogous Estimating . Automated Code Coverage Report . Bottom-Up Estimating .

Software Review 40

Software Review Project Life Cycle Estimate Technical Review 40

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The Hypothesis requires tests (experiments) to confirm that we're moving in the right direction along the path defined in the Plan. If the IMP is being prepared as part of a proposal, then the Request for Proposal (RFP) and RFP attachments will be the primary documents to define the work to be performed. Plans are Strategies.

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Planning Software Review Governance Government 42

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Project Management Software & Tools. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Project Management Software & Tools. 77% of companies use project management software, and 87% of high-performing companies use project management software. [5]. 53% use project management software.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I was well aware that part of my code was complex and any addition would be risky. Practically it means that when a planned task is delayed due to uncertainty, the delay is not compensated by other tasks finishing early. It helps us begin somewhere rather than getting paralyzed by what we don’t know.

2016 52

2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare 52

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.

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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. Hayek , The American Economic Review , Vol. He was not a program manager of engineered to order software intensive system of systems. People have defined skills and capabilities. probably not.

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Resource Guru

JUNE 14, 2022

If your organization is struggling to keep projects on track with spreadsheets, emails, and files that seem to vanish right when you need them – you’ll be pleased to know that there’s a huge variety of project scheduling software out there that can put an end to your woes. As with all software, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution.

Software Review 52

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Epicflow Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

I was well aware that part of my code was complex and any addition would be risky. Practically it means that when a planned task is delayed due to uncertainty, the delay is not compensated by other tasks finishing early. It helps us begin somewhere rather than getting paralyzed by what we don’t know.

2016 52

2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare 52

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Today’s PMI activity code, I’ll have up on the screen here in a minute. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations.

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