Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. The No Estimates advocates have a similar set of behaviors.). Pich, Christoph H.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Victorine Ghobeira , a Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager at Dataquest, says that “preventing a lack of resource starts when defining and estimating activities and leads to creating a realistic schedule. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Discussion in PMI Project, Program and Portfolio Management.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Knowledge work’ refers to tasks that take place mostly in our minds, like predicting scope, setting up plannings, considering consequences of changes to complex systems, working out test cases and estimating complexity. This will affect all estimates and predictions.

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Workzone

JULY 18, 2022

53 Best Project Management Software Solutions. Workzone has been a major player in the project management world since 2002. Pros: Workzone offers more than just a software solution. Clarizen helps provide cross-department insights so you can determine risk, scope, size, and estimates of company-wide projects.

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Workzone

APRIL 23, 2020

53 Best Project Management Software Solutions. Workzone is a US-based company that has been a major player in the project management world since 2002. Pros: Workzone offers more than just a software solution. It’s also a poor choice if you’re concerned with monitoring budgets or estimates. Pricing: Ranges from Free – $20.83/user

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Workzone

JULY 13, 2021

After all, Workzone has been helping teams bring order to their project chaos since 2002. It will not satisfy an organization in need of a project management tool with the power to provide estimates, budgets, and dependencies. is designed for software development projects built around Agile and Scrum project methodologies.

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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. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Software Development (#ASD). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams. Parametric Project Monitoring and Control - Earned Value is an approach to Performance measurement for monitoring and controlling the progress of software development projects.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

So here are some books, handbooks, and guides that sit on my shelf that are used pretty much all the time on the Software Intensive System of Systems we work on. But when some statement is made about risk, estimating, performance modeling, or the like - always ask for references. I'm not expecting anyone to read all these books.

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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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Workzone

AUGUST 4, 2021

Trello is a weak option for project managers concerned with estimates, budgets, and dependencies. Jira is the flagship product of Australian software developer Atlassian’s. ProjectManager.com is a robust project planning software developed by ProjectManager.com, Inc. Pricing: Free – $20.83/user/month. user/month.

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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? It is as close to a “single piece pull” model as will work for a software development process.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

If you’re also interested in Agile project management, pair the PMBOK with the PMI’s new Agile Practice Guide or our own Guide on How to Pick the Software Development Process that’s Right For you. Published date: 2002. Project Management for Humans: Helping People Get Things Done. Author: Brett Harned. Published date: 2017.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. You probably remember the case of the Volkswagen software engineer who was sentenced to prison for writing code that enabled vehicles to pass emissions tests fraudulently. It is not true.

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