Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

An unattended software delivery pipeline frees technical staff to spend more time on value-add activities rather than tediously performing repetitive tasks by hand, such as. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Building software. Automate why?

Software Review 55

Software Review Software Technical Review Development Team Review 55

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 3, March 2002. 11 November 2002. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

Risk Management 38

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

Leading Agile

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I got introduced in Agile back in 2002, was working in some pretty large complicated financial services, software products, and we were doing a lot with Agile, but we were also doing a lot with the rational unified process. How do we govern for collaboration? We were doing a lot with traditional project management.

Governance 62

Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62

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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Dorofee, et.

Risk Management 35

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Strategy (#Strategy).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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 ? This variation can be explained by the fact that initial concepts do not describe the final software system accurate enough.

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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. Pich, Christoph H.

2002 34

2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 34

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp.

2003 46

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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. Pich, Christoph H.

2002 28

2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 28

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? When I applied those principles in real-world situations, they worked remarkably well. What has changed?

Agile 94

Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 94

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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 ‒ Steve McConnell. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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Workzone

AUGUST 4, 2021

This list of alternatives for Asana the project management software will help you identify which project management software you should be using. We’re going to share the top Asana alternative, Workzone, pros and cons of Asana, and 24 other software solutions so you can decide which option is worth researching further.

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2021 Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 26

PM That Works

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

And interestingly enough, I did a keynote this morning for the PMI chapter of Tampa Bay and one of the people that was reaching out said that she really wanted to learn how to communicate better with executives, and And my response was, you've got to learn disk in about 2002 is when I first ran into it. I wrote about it my book in 2008.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Controlling Risk Management 40

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. So I'm going to transition into a story here really quickly and we're going to do our best here with the connections that we have. Weren't meeting for me.

2018 40

2018 Agile Consulting 2002 40

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

– Like the manifesto, the best software architectures come from a self-organizing teams. ‘Cause I was, in 2002 and three, I was giving lectures on how to be a project manager, an effective project manager in a rabidly Agile context, right? It’s part of my governance model. – Right. As you know.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Agile Consulting 79