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. Programmatic ?

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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. probably not.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For software, this can be value produced (assuming we have a unit of measure for that value in the for of effectiveness, performance, key performance parameters, or technical performance measures ). It can be the cost, schedule, and technical performance measures of the software project.

Closing 28

Closing Estimate Controlling Process 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. In Earned Value Management paradigm, progress is always measured as physical percent complete. The MOE's belong to the End User - this is the what part of the development project.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

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.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

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.

Software Review 34

Software Review Technical Review Estimate Software Developers 34

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

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). Tolerance bands for the project base weight provide management with actionable information about the progression of the program.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

The paper on the Cone of Uncertainty is used by many in the No Estimates community as an example of why estimates are of little use. In this paper, there is data that does not follow the Cone of Uncertainty, in that the uncertainty of the estimates does not reduce as the project proceeds. Then there is some analysis.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

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). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty. There can be cost and schedule performance measures as well.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 27, 2016

There are two kinds of uncertainty on all projects, no matter the domain, including software development projects. Facts are the relevant data, information, and knowledge used in the process of assessing the alternatives against the values in order to make the decision. The Notion of Enterprise Software Development.

2009 28

2009 2015 Influencer Performance Measurement 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

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). Tolerance bands for the project base weight provide management with actionable information about the progression of the program.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

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). Tolerance bands for the project base weight provide management with actionable information about the progression of the program.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Rarely the case in software development, where Little's Law is misused often. The OP claimed Goodhart's Law was the source of most of the problems with software development. What this says is again when the measure becomes the target, that target impacts the measure, changing the target. .

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Estimate Software Developers Software Development 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. When System One works it is because of memories and past experiences inform the decision. What dos Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers?

Transportation 39

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. All project work operates in the presence of uncertainty.

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It's can inform the decision makers about the validating of the past decisions, but it must be applied to a model of the future to be of any use in informing the decision makers about possible outcomes in the future so the can make choices before that future arrives. This is the basis of Earned Value Management.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. When System One works it is because of memories and past experiences inform the decision. What dos Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers?

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The data and statistics below are sorted into categories so you can quickly skim to find the information you need. Simply grab the stats you want and find the corresponding original source information at the bottom of this page. Information/. No central source of project information: 35%. Information/Technology – 67%.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

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. Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. Jeff, a big MPUG welcome back.

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

Informational cohesion: performs a number of functions, each with its own entry point, with independent code for each function, all performed on the same data structure. In the presence of uncertainty, estimates is needed to make decisions. There is no way out of this for any non-trivial software development project.

Underperforming Technical Team 32

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

Informational cohesion: performs a number of functions, each with its own entry point, with independent code for each function, all performed on the same data structure. In the presence of uncertainty, estimates is needed to make decisions. There is no way out of this for any non-trivial software development project.

Underperforming Technical Team 28

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 28