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. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Deciding how much precision and accuracy is needed for a credible estimate is critical to the success of that decision.

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Leading Answers

JULY 20, 2018

While writing this article, AI in Microsoft Word and the add-in Grammarly helped protect you, from the bulk of my spelling and grammar mistakes. Do you analyze backlogs and scope outlines for potential risks, or review estimates for commonly missed activities? Predictions like “AI will take our jobs” sound scary.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 2018 2003 79

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History," Craig Larman and Victor Basili, IEEE Computer , June 2003. Related articles. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Managing the Development of Large-Scale Software: Concepts and Techniques," Winston Royce, Proceedings, Wescon, August 1970.

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Leading Answers

JULY 20, 2018

While writing this article, AI in Microsoft Word and the add-in Grammarly helped protect you from the bulk of my spelling and grammar mistakes. Do you analyze backlogs and scope outlines for potential risks, or review estimates for commonly missed activities? Predictions like “AI will take our jobs” sound scary.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. 105, 2003. “A Estimation of Long?Term Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty … and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean,” Phil Beenhouwer, The Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA), May 17, 2006.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

requires making estimates) ? Effective Risk Management 2nd Edition, Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. 105, 2003. “A Estimation of Long?Term Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty … and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean,” Phil Beenhouwer, The Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA), May 17, 2006.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2016

Here's an article, recently referenced by a #NoEstimates twitter post. The headline is deceiving, the article DOES NOT suggest we don't need deadline, but that deadlines without credible assessment of their credibility are the source of many problems on large program. There is no ideal in the estimating business.

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Technical Review Estimate 2003 Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Not because of its use for estimating cost, schedule, and technical performance outcomes on projects, but because this simulation started with a casino's need - in Monte Carlo - to have some level of confidence on how much money they needed every night for the roulette wheel. Precision - how small is the variance of the estimate?

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MPUG

JUNE 30, 2019

Organize, estimate, and schedule work, resources, and costs to ensure projects are completed according to plan. Microsoft Project 2003. The program, which has many different versions, allows users to: Understand and control project schedules and finances. Communicate and present project information. Microsoft Project 2007.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Need up-to-date facts and figures for a project management report, article, or infographic? Estimated Project-Oriented Job Openings 2010-2020: . The number of firms with a PPM process in place grew from 64% in 2003 to 71% in 2013. [13]. Inadequate cost estimates – 29%. Inaccurate task time estimate – 27%.

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2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

We were on of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . And, my customer is equally as clueless about the need to estimate as I am. I suspect the latter. .

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help. Almost impossible?

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. Is this normal?

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Workzone

MAY 1, 2020

It can help provide cross-department insights to determine risk, scope, size, and estimates of larger, company-wide projects. ProWorkFlow is a project management tool that was created by Julian Stone in 2002 and acquired by ProActive Software Limited in 2003. . Pricing: Only available upon request. ProWorkFlow.

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Workzone

AUGUST 4, 2021

So if you’re not sure it’s the right fit for your team, then this article will help you find the right Asana competitors. Trello is a weak option for project managers concerned with estimates, budgets, and dependencies. Wrike is a project management system created in 2003 by Wrike, Inc. Pricing: Free – $20.83/user/month.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

And during the 2007 and 2003 versions, we got a new way of creating reports. And you would have the option to include your own set of report templates, which would be on a certain location such as the TPC articles, MPUG articles, and then I would have the XL reports there. But I do want to have it in the input articles section.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 24, 2019

” So want to continue to do that, and again, for those of you that are on the MPUG membership, there are other articles, videos and things that we’ve been doing over the last few years. I can kind of plan and estimate. What’s deeper estimates?” So there’s actually a rich information out there.

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