Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Instead, it refers to the need for forecasting, planning and sizing. It's a common technique that is useful for forecasting, planning and sizing. Example 1 : Sprint Planning. A typical format for Sprint Planning might look like this: The Product Owner brings an ordered Product Backlog to Sprint Planning.

SCRUM 187

SCRUM Estimate Performance Measurement Planning 187

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

It collects and uses project information through one or more software applications. What these programs do is help project managers to plan, execute and close their project. Some will also have automated gathering and reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs).

Software Review 213

Software Review Project Life Cycle Closing Budget 213

The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Baseline An original plan for measuring performance and tracking changes. Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices. Capacity Planning To identify the number of resources (e.g., identify items such as benefits and costs).

Development Team Review 148

Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Capabilities Based Planning. Capabilities Based Planning (V2).

2003 54

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

There is a current rash of suggestions on how to improve the performance of software projects. This is from one of our presentations from a International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association meeting on the same topic. I'd suggest the Principles for project success on non-trivial software efforts are universal.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

What is an estimate? An estimate as a noun is an approximate calculation or judgment of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something. An estimate as a verb is to roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of. But those estimates, nouns, and verbs themselves's have other attributes.

Estimate 46

Estimate Risk Management Risk SCRUM 46

Leading Agile

APRIL 29, 2021

In that discussion, I covered a range of topics – Building a Business Case and the Key Financial Metrics that should be provided in your Business Case, Understanding your Company’s Software Development Costs, the Importance of Benchmarking, Importance of keeping your Asset Management current, and Capitalizing and Amortizing Software Costs.

Finance 72

Finance Agile Performance Measurement Estimate 72

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.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

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 ). For your Honeywell or Nest controller on the wall, that sample rate is measured in seconds.

Closing 28

Closing Estimate Controlling Process 28

Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2018

The domain I work in is categorized as Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS). This means a Capabilities Based Plan for what business and operational capabilities are needed in what order to fulfill the Mission and Vision of the enterprise funding the program. Cost, Schedule, and these measures are tightly interconnected.

2001 31

2001 Software Estimate Performance Measurement 31

Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2018

The domain I work in is categorized as Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS). This means a Capabilities Based Plan for what business and operational capabilities are needed in what order to fulfill the Mission and Vision of the enterprise funding the program. Cost, Schedule, and these measures are tightly interconnected.

2001 28

2001 Software Estimate Performance Measurement 28

ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

An assumption in project management refers to assuming about possible factors or situations that may occur in the project planning process that it may actually happen. It refers to any prediction or estimation made on a project’s status, including how it will unfold in the future. Performance Measurement Baseline.

Underperforming Technical Team 111

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Risk Management Defining 111

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The original agile author's quote shows that systems engineering is missing from his development of software using Agile. In most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. The Measures of Performance are. Technical Performance Measures.

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.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. It can be the needed performance of a measure - Effectiveness, Performance, Key Performance Parameter, or a Technical Performance Measures.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

Workamajig

JUNE 11, 2019

A robust PM system might tell you how a project is doing at any moment, but it can’t tell you how the organization or its constituent people are performing. Measuring and monitoring project management metrics fills this gap. The tools you’re using to measure the metric must have a low error rate. Planned Value.

Estimate 93

Estimate Budget Infrastructure Performance Measurement 93

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).

Underperforming Technical Team 59

Underperforming Technical Team Agile Performance Measurement PMI 59

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2016

I come to this systems domain from the Software Intensive System of Systems paradigm. When I hear about complex software systems and how difficult they are, and how undesirable they are, and all the other urban legends about complexity, complex, complicated and chaos, I get a smile. Technical Performance Measures.

Engineering 28

Engineering Software Performance Measurement Finance 28

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Measures of Performance - are performance measures that characterize physical or functional attributes relating to the system operation, measured or estimated under specific conditions. Measures of Performance. The Technical Performance Measures.

2005 37

2005 Performance Measurement Closing Controlling 37

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). The Cone is NOT the result of the project's past performance.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The answer is a Capabilities Based Plan stating what capabilities the stakeholders of the project need to accomplish their mission. In our space and defense domain, we have an increasing maturity of the deliverables captures in the Integrated Master Plan. For software projects, Scrum can be used. Resources .

2010 39

2010 Governance Government Performance Measurement 39

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.

2007 42

2007 2012 2006 2008 42

Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2017

The common definition of the Definition of Done in agile software development is (mostly from the Scrum Alliance and other official Scrum sites): A simple list of activities (coding, comments, unit testing, integration, release notes, design documents, etc.) Does the code produce the Planned Capabilities that were paid for?

Software Review 28

Software Review Technical Review Performance Measurement Estimate 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). The Cone is NOT the result of the project's past performance.

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

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. Abstracted from [3].

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 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). There can be cost and schedule performance measures as well.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Wrike

JULY 1, 2020

While HR professionals may not be used to planning and managing formal projects, many of the activities they complete are, in fact, projects. . For instance, attracting new talent, launching and executing training and development programs, completing annual performance and salary reviews are all projects that HR teams need to complete.

Underperforming Technical Team 36

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Performance Measurement Executing 36

Herding Cats

AUGUST 14, 2016

Many blogs, tweets, books are spent of speaking about Value as the priority in agile software development. Without units of measure of Value beyond time and money, there can be not basis of comparison between one value based choice and another. MOP's are attributes that assure the systems to capability to perform.

Performance Measurement 49

Performance Measurement Engineering Lean Software Developers 49

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2017

Without these measures, Done will usually mean we ran out of time and money. . Plans are strategies for success. For the project to be successful, we need a Plan. Estimating how much is the starting point. Estimating is part of risk management. No Estimating? Strategies are hypotheses. No Adult Management.

Estimate 39

Estimate Risk Management Risk Engineering 39

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. . No measures of effectiveness.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Estimate Software Developers Software Development 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Modeling is at the heart of Program Planning and Controls. It's the Planning and Controls processes working together with the Technical Development processes that provide the ability to forecast what should happen in the future if we keep going like we are going now using a Model of the possible future outcomes.

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. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. A final Thought . Flyvbjerg, H. Skamris & S.

Transportation 39

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

What does Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? What is the Plan and the Schedule for the work in that Plan to reach Done for the needed cost on the needed date to deliver the needed Value to those paying for the work? What are the units of measures of progress to plan for each deliverable?

Process 53

Process Engineering Software Developers Software Development 53

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

“The Cone of Uncertainty,” Stephen Gryphon, Phillippe Kruchten, and Steve McConnell, Letters, IEEE Software , 23 (5) 2006, pp 8?10. Shrinking the Cone of Uncertainty with Continuous Assessment for Software Team Dynamics in Design and Development,” Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn,”Ph.D. 37–48, 2007.

2012 29

2012 2007 2010 2006 29

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. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. A final Thought . Flyvbjerg, H. Skamris & S.

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28