The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Continuous Improvement The ongoing effort to improve a project process, product, or service to achieve better results. Cost Estimation The process of estimating project costs is done by leveraging historical data, expert judgment, or quantitative models. Also known as continuous process improvement.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Similar past projects can help you here as a reference. Apply your hourly rate : Total up all hours needed to complete the project and multiply by your hourly rate. Calculate project costs: Work out other costs for the project. and add that to your cost estimate. Such as licensing fees, etc.,

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

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. The estimated completion cost for this program is $357,000,000 with an accuracy of $200,000 and a precision of $300,000.

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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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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

And you’ll want to find a platform that fits your project methodology, whether that’s Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, etc. Software developers will be relieved to find Backlog , a PM tool built solely for IT and software engineering teams. Nonprofit project management software. Example: Microsoft Project.

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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. 229 “How Should We Estimate Agile Software Development Projects and What Data Do We Need?”

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. 12, 2008. “A

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

“Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). The Use of Precision of Software Development Effort Estimates to Communicate Uncertainty,” Magne Jørgensen, Software Quality Days.

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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. And money in the bank is what software development is about.

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ProProfs Project Management

JULY 5, 2019

55% of IT managers reported they have an understanding of the business objectives of their IT projects. 5% of businesses claimed that project cost is the main issue faced by project managers while handling manufacturing projects. IT project failure rates range between 5% to 15%. Source: Geneca ) Tweet this.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assumptions are a major contributor to Project Risk, A large number of assumptions increase the overall Project Risk. Audit: The process of analyzing a project to ensure that it is being governed as intended. A project sponsor can request an audit. Authorization: Authorization is the power to make decisions.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

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. Does that make sense to anyone who has worked in software development?

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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. For software development starts with. Using Function Points in Agile Projects.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Use of Benefits of Tools for Project Risk Management,” T. Charette, IEEE Software , pp. 255, April 2010.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Jira claims to be the number one software development tool for agile project teams. It helps to manage the release of great software, whilst integrating with the tools developers use already such as Confluence, and Bitbucket. Is Zoho Projects right for you? Not available in the free plan.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. Jeff, a big MPUG welcome back.

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