Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Risk Management. Five Easy Pieces: The Essentials of Managing Programmatic Risk , 10th Annual Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium, Denver Colorado, April 2008. Managing in the Presence of Uncertainty and Resulting Risk. Basis of Estimate Process.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? The difficulty of accurate size estimation is compounded especially at the time of inception when very little information is available.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. The concepts of Taleb and its application to project management is shared by some in the project management community (and now in the No Estimates community). The No Estimates advocates have a similar set of behaviors.). Pich, Christoph H.

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2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 34

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. First, let's establish a principle.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Perform Risk Management. Consider introducing risk management measures such as simulations and predictions to be ready for the bottlenecks that might compromise your projects in the future. For effective risk management, it might be reasonable to consider using a project management tool such as Epicflow.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 2002 Software Review 75

Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. The concepts of Taleb and its application to project management is shared by some in the project management community (and now in the No Estimates community). The No Estimates advocates have a similar set of behaviors.). Pich, Christoph H.

2002 28

2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 13, 2018

Estimation locks down choices early through upfront t decision making, #NoEstimates preserves options. Managing Requirements for Business Value," John Favaro, IEEE Software , March/April 2002. IT Risk Management. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. And attached the hashtag #RealOption.

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Workzone

MAY 1, 2020

Based outside Philadelphia, Workzone has been a significant player in the project management world since 2002. It can help provide cross-department insights to determine risk, scope, size, and estimates of larger, company-wide projects. Top 12 Mavenlink Alternatives for Project Management. Pricing: Only available upon request.

2020 29

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The New Leaders – 2002 with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee (US|UK). The leadership part of this stage lies in: Understanding the relationship between innovation and risk. But you will also be concerned with what risks your team poses at this stage, and how can you counter those risks? . Risk management.

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Workzone

JULY 18, 2022

Sure – but the risks outweigh the time and resource investment. Visibility – Views like an all project dashboard lets you know what’s happening across all your projects so you can identify at-risk projects before they become problems. Workzone has been a major player in the project management world since 2002.

Software Review 26

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 2022 Software 26

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Take adequate time to make reasonable and realistic estimates: Perfection is nearly impossible to achieve in resource management, but you should still aim for it. Once project priorities have been clarified, take adequate time to estimate schedules and budget. In addition, you need to know the cost for each resource.

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Project Life Cycle Technical Review 2013 2002 116

Workzone

APRIL 23, 2020

Workzone is a US-based company that has been a major player in the project management world since 2002. Clarizen helps provide cross-department insights so you can determine risk, scope, size, and estimates of company-wide projects. It’s also a poor choice if you’re concerned with monitoring budgets or estimates.

Software Review 26

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Technical Review 26

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Risk Management (#RM). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. But in fact, risk management is part of the other 4 principles as well. Table of Contents (Click the Name to go to Section). Management Processes (#MP).

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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. COSMIC Software Estimation Approach,” Alain Abran, ICEAA Workshop, Portland Oregon, June 6?9, Estimating Probable System Cost,” Stephen A. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Planio

JULY 22, 2020

Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World. However, while this book covers basics like estimating and planning projects, where it shines is in covering the soft skills of project management. Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World. Key lessons inside: There’s no such thing as a risk-free project.

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2020 Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 148

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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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When I first learned about Agile methods in 2002, the principles seemed to offer an ideal solution to many organizational issues common at the time. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? Code quality increased and the risk of changing code was reduced. What has changed? Business Impact.

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ProProfs Project Management

OCTOBER 23, 2019

This survey illustrates how important it is to define project goals and have everything streamlined to avoid project risks. Project case estimates. Task estimates are accurate. Project cost estimation. ProWorkFlow is a project management and time tracking software that was launched in 2002. Features: Time tracking.

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Software Review 2019 Software Budget 80

Workzone

JULY 23, 2021

Pros: Clarizen One brings the added advantage of cross-department insights so you can determine risk, scope, size, and estimates of company-wide projects. Created back in 2002, ProWorkFlow was quickly acquired by ProActive Software Limited the following year. Clarizen Go is a simplified version created for smaller teams.

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PM That Works

APRIL 23, 2018

But for me there was a point early in my career really around 2002 where I decided or was thinking of quitting project management it was just you know I was frustrated. Man Yeah we're risk ready is what we are. Weren't meeting for me. I was frustrated I was done. Where's Rob. So we're so excited that we got a chance to connect.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Including appropriate tooling in the automated CI process covers most of the remaining risks in this area.

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