Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

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. Turof, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering , 400, 2018. “A

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. Having spent half my life in the commercial space and half in the government space, the questions are always there. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs. Again, my name is Fletcher Hearns. What’s happening now.

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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. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. 5] "Decisions in software development projects management.

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Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects? All for the want of a nail.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

"Managing the Development of Large-Scale Software: Concepts and Techniques," Winston Royce, Proceedings, Wescon, August 1970. Iterative Enhancement: A Practical Technique for Software Development," Victor Basil and Albert Turner, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 4, December 1975.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. That's why I strive to create an environment with mutual trust between the engineers and the different stakeholders.

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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. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. 5] "Decisions in software development projects management.

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Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 2, 2023

They include computer programmers, web developers, support specialists, IT technicians, network engineers, database administrators, software engineers, computer scientists, data scientists and IT security specialists. However, the organization isn’t the sole focus of IT governance. That’s only a few.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The processes is an engineering discipline. Systems Engineering, Risk Engineering, Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering, are typical roles where we work. Economics of Software Development. Prentice-Hall, 1981. Related articles.

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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. Microeconomics .

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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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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

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Engineering Reason for the Cone of Uncertainty Model and the Value it provide to the Designing Makers. The processes is an engineering discipline. Systems Engineering, Risk Engineering, Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering, are typical roles where we work.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Before listening to any conjecture that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of Uncertainty for software development, please read these books. What are we looking for? Reading Materials.

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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

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. This is the domain of Microeconomics and when applied to software development it is the microeconomics of software development.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

A quick search via a popular search engine informs us of the following: Toolmaking is considered one of the world’s oldest professions at approximately 2.8 Most of these roles were based on aspects of IT operation, such as mainframe operation and maintenance, which later evolved into software development and commercialisation.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

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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. Improving Software Development Tracking and Estimation Inside the Cone of Uncertainty, "Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn, Thanida Hongsongkiat, and Barry Boehm.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2019

The cost of developing the software in new vehicles is now greater than the cost of the engine. It has become the single most expensive component, even in internal combustion engine vehicles with no autonomous driving features. This is where product development books can help.   Summary.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

Its simplicity and ease of implementation has made it the most popular version of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) for software engineering and IT projects. What Dr. Royce was describing was a flawed model for software development as he argued for a model with multiple iterations or runs.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Probabilistic over Deterministic is standard estimating processes in every single book, paper, guideline, policy, and regulations governing the development in use of estimates in commercial (ITIL) and Government (all agency and GAO Estimating handbooks). Delivery Time over Development Time.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments. Complexity Primer (Sandia).

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Some Model-Based Systems Engineering process. The Design Structure Matrix .

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Teamweek

AUGUST 7, 2023

Recruiting developers in today’s job market can be as easy as knitting a sweater with spaghetti. ? With software development being the world’s most in-demand profession in 2023, tech companies and every technical recruiter on planet Earth are vying for their attention. What does a developer do?

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.

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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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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Software developers will be relieved to find Backlog , a PM tool built solely for IT and software engineering teams. It’s the perfect tool for remote software development teams to manage their projects without switching between programs and focusing on delivering software. Example: Backlog.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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 ‒ Steve McConnell. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

This always takes us back the coupling and cohesion discussion all of us who were Software Engineers in the 1980's . There is no way out of this for any non-trivial software development project. Allen School of Computer Science Software Engineering Course . This information comes from the Paul G.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

This always takes us back the coupling and cohesion discussion all of us who were Software Engineers in the 1980's . There is no way out of this for any non-trivial software development project. Allen School of Computer Science Software Engineering Course . This information comes from the Paul G.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 28

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Today, we take a look at why your software isn’t soft, explore the challenges of writing code at scale, and discuss a modern approach to writing code that will maintain its safety and simplicity over time. Video Transcript Chris Beale In traditional software development. Chris Beale Yeah, absolutely.

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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. Although the term “automated testing” is questionable , test automation continues to be a strong focus in software delivery these days. The company wanted to automate their dispatching process.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 23, 2020

In their words: DevOpsDays is a worldwide series of community run technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. In their words: A full-day, two-track conference on all things React, gathering Front-end and Full-stack engineers across the globe.

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