Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. Combine that tendency with management’s desire to protect their jobs when the bad things happen. I am willing to bet that no manager ever lost their job by embracing a contract provided by their legal department as well.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 29, 2024

Explanation: Software development is an evolving process. Changes and updates are inevitable; returning to work in every system part is normal in the development lifecycle. Objection: "We can't accurately estimate delivery timelines with incremental delivery." - ten common objections to incremental delivery.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The ability to measure progress is how project managers keep projects on track. But if you’re working in an agile environment, the Gantt chart isn’t the right tool for your iterative approach to project management. A burn up chart is a tool used in agile project management to measure progress. What Is a Burn Up Chart?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Managing information costs and managing information security for those costs are part of making an IT budget. Some of the items that are included in an IT budget are hardware, software, personnel, outsourcing, disaster recovery and any occupancy costs associated with the support of the IT in the organization.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Some project managers have a defensive mindset. 3 Is an Opportunity a Risk, Really? Project managers may use qualitative and quantitative risk analysis to evaluate opportunities. Consequently, these project managers and team members fail to take advantage of these upside risks. Table Of Contents.

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PM Basics

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In this article, you’ll find the real-life project risk management plan example. It comes from my practical experience working on software development projects. Below the example, you’ll find all the required information and resources to create your Risk Management Plan quickly and for free.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This, of course, is a violation of the principles of Managerial Finance and Microeconomics of software development in the presence of uncertainty and scarce resources. Software Project Cost Estimation . There are numerous horror stories about software development cost and schedule overruns.

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

“ I’ve done this a million times–let’s skip estimating just this once.”. You rush through the beginning estimates only to miss deadlines, blow budgets, and draw raised eyebrows from clients. In this guide we’ll cover: What are project estimation techniques? What are project estimation techniques? Cost estimations.

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Herding Cats

MAY 17, 2017

It is popular to state that Agile IS Risk Management - but that is not correct. Agile software development is a software development process. Risk Management is a process as well. The two - agile and risk management - are well suited for each other. IT Risk Management.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 20, 2021

While agile is relatively new, it has made a big splash in the work of project management. It started in software development, but has since been adopted by other industries that have seen the benefit of agile’s iterative approach. What Is Agile Project Management?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scope creep in project management is where additional requirements are added to the project, beyond what was originally agreed and these additions are not formally authorized. Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. What is scope creep?

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Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

If you work in project management, your job isn’t done until your users are happy — but that isn’t always the case. As every project manager knows, it’s almost impossible to get from A to B on a project without something going wrong. Identify tasks, estimate timings, and map a timeline Step 4. Team accountability.

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Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

wrote The Mythical Man Month, he provided project managers with the valuable caution which later was named Brooks’ Law: “ Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later “ While there are always exceptions, this statement is generally true. When Fred Brooks Jr.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Risk Management has six steps: Planning risk management - decides how to approach and plan the risk management activities for the project. Identifying the Risks - determines with risk are likely to affect the project and documenting the characteristics of each.

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

Maybe you didn’t factor in possible risks or pitfalls. Inaccurate time estimation is the cause of 25% of failed projects. Learning how to estimate time for a project is tricky, but critical to its success. Learning how to estimate time for a project is tricky, but critical to its success. And you just want to: Source.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

Project managers are the point person in charge of a specific project or projects within an organization. We regularly feature project management resources to help train PMs to land jobs in the industry or develop better skills in their current role. What Does a Project Manager Do? How Much Does a Project Manager Make?

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. But there is a real problem here: With so many different frameworks and project management approaches, life cycles are so confusing. Concept Development.

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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. Managing in the presence of uncertainty is standard business practice. If you have no uncertainty, then estimates provide no value. This is how business works.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 16, 2024

Project management is a multifaceted discipline that combines techniques, processes, and strategies to plan, execute, monitor, and control projects effectively. Businesses are anticipated to increase their investments in project management. The Five Project Management Processes: 1.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So, picture this: you are transitioning from your current position into a project management career. The industry didn’t matter; it was about translating my work experience into specific project management industry-recognized terms and managing projects. What are the Essential Project Management Buzzwords?

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

For example, about which software to buy, which Features in the development backlog should be implemented next, what prices to charge for products and services. Software development is an exercise in microeconomics, since it deals with limited resources - time, cost, and what value is produced in exchange for the time and money.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

Everyone wants their projects to be “quality” but I often get asked about how to manage project quality in real life. You probably already know that you need a quality management plan , and that management, assurance and control are the pillars of doing it right. What does it mean to “do” project quality?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

IT financial management (ITFM) covers the costs of keeping our network, servers and devices running. IT financial management is a bit more complicated than that and we’ll explain by more thoroughly defining the term. Then we’ll list the professionals who are tasked with IT financial management and their key objectives.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

Welcome to project management 101. Project management can seem like a daunting discipline, but once you get a grasp of the fundamentals and combine that with some intuition, you’ll be on your way to leading successful projects, no matter your situation. What Is Project Management? Get started for free today.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 21, 2018

If this is true, why is it that some project managers put so little time in developing a project management plan? One of the reasons is that project managers may not know what to include. For example, a project manager can compare actual completion dates of activities to an approved schedule baseline.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2022

But when you break down large chunks of the work into smaller pieces, suddenly it’s manageable. That’s basically what any project management methodology is all about. The software development life cycle (SDLC) is how it’s done in software development. What Is the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)?

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. requires making estimates) ? Risk Management Papers. “A

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. There is a discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. This uncertainty creates risk, which can be reduced through specific actions. (2)

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Decision Making on Software Development Projects Is Both Simple and Complex at the Same Time. All Uncertainty Creates Risk. Reducible risk requires estimating the probability distribution of the occurrence. Irreducible risk requires estimating the statistical distribution of the naturally occurring processes.

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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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MPUG

APRIL 29, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Oliver Gildersleeve’s Analogous and Parametric Estimating Schedule Template webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. The new schedule template covers both analogous and parametric estimating features. Oliver: Thank you Kyle.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 18, 2018

There is a popular fallacy in the Agile community that small batch sizes are Risk Management. What small batches do is provide information that informs risk management at a fast rate. This analog signal is the underlying dynamics of the software development process. Small batch sizes answer the question.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 6, 2022

A project execution plan is a document for executing projects that helps you strategize, come up with project management processes and put the whole thing into action. Needless to add, it’s an essential project management document. The document outlines all parts of the project execution and shows how to manage them.

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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. These two points of view are the basis of any credible business management process. Don't assume, Estimate. This type of fallacy is common. .

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

All software development projects operate in the presence of uncertainty. The design and development of software must rely on estimation, forecasts, and predictions based on an idealized understanding of what is an unknown (but knowable) understanding of reality. This is a Risk Communication issue.

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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. reducible and irreducible

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2021

Marc Andreessen’s adage that “Software is eating the world” is becoming the differentiator for Industries that were previously thought to be more manual. . A company known for developing “Agile” products surveyed more 18,000 customers and Software development professionals, which is what they discovered. .

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