Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. These are all focused on developing software, delivering that software to those paying the developers. Why This Missing Concept is Important to Agile Software Development? .

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2016

There appears to be a resurgence in the No Projects conversation, similar to the No Estimates notion that has been around for awhile. I’m going to suggest that most of the disconnects around ideas of software development ‒ from No Estimates to No Projects to whatever ‒ starts with Developers and the assumption It’s their money.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. This domain has turned into the S oftware Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) paradigm that dominates software development activities today. Software-intensive systems include: . Related articles.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Making changes late in the development cycle has significant impacts on the verification and validation of the system no matter the software development method. . A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management. It's as simple as that.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

To accomplish this requires financial governance, creating and controlling an IT budget, tracking expenses and doing cost-benefit analysis of IT investments. This position is also responsible for IT governance , ensuring that standards, rules and proper procedures are being followed. It’s not limited to the IT department.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This is especially important in software development projects, where terms such as deployment , release , go-live , and implementation get used interchangeably, causing endless confusion and misalignment. Identify tasks, estimate timings, and map a timeline Step 4. Unique to software development projects and product teams.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 30, 2017

One of the 4 summary root causes of project performance failures is Unrealistic Cost and Schedule Estimates based on inadequate risk-adjusted growth models. One notion in a governance paradigm is It's Not Your Money . If you have no uncertainty, then estimates provide no value. This is how business works.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 3, 2017

Alistair Cockburn's talk on 21st Century Software development. . Pay attention the hoax of #Noestimates and most major misunderstandings of the Agile Manifesto and the 12 Principle.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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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. What is a Team?

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Paul Boos has a post about estimating and makes a case for the Principles of when NOT to estimate. This struck a cord around a bigger topic - the inversion of estimating. When should we NOT estimate? Then on to the original conjecture for No Estimates from Paul's post. That is, to make decision with “No estimates”.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 15, 2016

Here's the IT budget for the Federal Government. Estimating and Making Decisions in Presence of Uncertainty. This is larger than all the IT systems found everywhere else in the world, plus all their custom built IT stuff. This is not the embedded systems. These are business systems. Related articles.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, the digital transformation market was estimated at a whopping $731.1 However, as IT projects often require a deeper understanding of technology, many IT PMs have a background in software development or IT support. Software Developers). billion in 2022 — with no signs of slowing down.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population. The estimate can also be produced parametrically or through a simulation (Monte Carlo is common, but Method of Moments is another we use). . Estimates can be about the past, present, or future.

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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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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

There are trends and systems that can calculate and estimate the likelihood of what is to come, but the reality is there are too many variables to make any such equation infallible. The history of business agility as a concept begins with software development. Then there is the human element. Origins of Business Agility.

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

government began using it to manage complex defense projects. Agile is used in a wide range of industries, including software development, IT, construction, engineering, and many others Hybrid Hybrid combines elements of traditional and agile pm to create a customized approach that meets the specific needs of the project.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Third, how are we reproducing working tests in software? Additionally, we need to consider how we organize teams in the presence of dependencies, how we orchestrate and govern those dependencies, and what we measure and control around the team. How are we orchestrating and governing those dependencies? How are we forming teams?

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate. Project Governance The framework and guidelines for decision-making, responsibility, and accountability within a project.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

And how they are used in a changing software development and deployment structure. And how they are used in a changing software development and deployment structure. Rethinking Agile Principles for the Modern Business World In this video, Mike explores which Agile principles still apply today. Watch the Video 9.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

A nice conversation on twitter about estimates on software brought up the topic of estimates as commitments. The #NoEstimates advocates see estimates as making commitments. Yes, commitments are made when we estimate. oo (an estimate) with a 15% error band (an estimate). . Estimates are not needed.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 18, 2017

Can you make a decision without an estimate? There are NO means of making a credible decision in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of that decision. Don't assume, Estimate. How can you assess the strategy without making estimates of the impact of the outcome of the hypothesis? First a principle.

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Planio

APRIL 22, 2024

According to some estimates , PMs spend 90% of their time communicating with team members, sponsors, and stakeholders. The budget and scope remain on track, but there are risks to the project’s software development resources following a resignation. Project managers are born communicators. 60,000) from 1st January.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? An estimate is. It's a fallacy.

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Project Bliss

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Budget – estimated cost of the project. Technology – this could cover software development, platforms, environments, and infrastructure. Budget – estimated cost of the project. Project will follow team governance guidelines and requirements. Delivery – what’s intended to be delivered.

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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. During this phase, there’s a lot of box-ticking and governance to ensure everyone understands their ongoing requirements. But there’s a problem.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

The conference committee encourages everyone to prepare papers on one of the relevant topics, among which there are: Managing people, Managing projects, Software management activities, Project execution and monitoring, Empirical estimation technique, Critical path analysis. Pricing: starting from 100 EUR.

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Planview

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, many digital transformation initiatives struggle to deliver the expected financial value, with more than half lagging behind original estimates, according to a Gartner survey of CIOs. So what can technology organizations do to achieve a higher rate of return on investment (ROI)?

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Estimate a project timeframe: Create time estimates for each task. and add that to your cost estimate. You should let the client know that your estimates are, in fact, just estimates and not a fixed cost. Review task estimates and actuals regularly and communicate any significant deviations to the client.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Software developer. Of course, AI will have a significant impact on software development. So, in the near future, software developers are not expected to be fully replaced by artificial intelligence, though the specifics of their work can change over time. . There have been attempts to write a code by AI.

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Planview

JUNE 28, 2019

Adopting Lean-Agile budgeting practices helps to decrease funding overhead and friction while maintaining financial governance, helping to align budgeting practices with Lean-Agile goals. IT provides cost and time estimates and executives prioritize funding based on perceived value delivery in 12-18 months or longer.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Product Development (#ProdDev). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Six Business System Rule - defines the assessment of the integrated business systems for Federal procurement and their integrity in providing information to the Government contracting office. . Strategy (#Strategy).

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

Establish project governance: Project charter templates help to identify key stakeholders and team members involved in the project, e.g., project sponsors, project manager, and team lead, indicating who is responsible for specific tasks and who has the authority to make decisions. This includes personnel, equipment, and funding.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 17, 2018

We know old concepts that govern agriculture do not apply to industry. Yet many project managers who work in the knowledge worker domain still apply project management approaches developed for the industrial era. Introduction. Engineers do not consult the weather or growing seasons before designing machinery.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 17, 2018

We know old concepts that govern agriculture do not apply to industry. Yet many project managers who work in the knowledge worker domain still apply project management approaches developed for the industrial era. Engineers do not consult the weather or growing seasons before designing machinery.

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