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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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

But when some statement is made about risk, estimating, performance modeling, or the like - always ask for references. Oriented Perspective , 1st Edition, Terje Aven, John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Effective Risk Management , 2nd Edition, Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. I'm not expecting anyone to read all these books. No References?

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Let's start with a history paper , “ Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History ,” Craig Larman and Victor Basili, IEEE Computer, June 2003. Now put a governance wrapper around XP and you get a useful approach to develop emergent software and here's the paper that shows how to do that in 2003.

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Agilemania

MARCH 30, 2021

” At that time, organizations used to estimate three years between a validated business need and an actual application in production. In 2003, the Agile Alliance organized its first conference in Utah. But, business doesn’t work like that. Even those days, businesses moved faster than three years’ time span.

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Leading Answers

JULY 20, 2018

Do you analyze backlogs and scope outlines for potential risks, or review estimates for commonly missed activities? AI has come a long way since Microsoft rolled out the annoying and not so helpful “Clippy” Office Assistant tool in 2003. Like me, do you spend time booking meetings, finding rooms, and distributing information?

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History," Craig Larman and Victor Basili, IEEE Computer , June 2003. 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. IT Risk Management.

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Epicflow Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

It involves setting clear goals, defining roles, estimating time and costs required for project implementation, planning resources. The challenges listed below are among the most common project management challenges, at the same time, they are driven by specificity of the educational sphere. . Improper planning. References .

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Leading Answers

JULY 20, 2018

Do you analyze backlogs and scope outlines for potential risks, or review estimates for commonly missed activities? AI has come a long way since Microsoft rolled out the annoying and not so helpful “Clippy” Office Assistant tool in 2003. Like me, do you spend time booking meetings, finding rooms, and distributing information?

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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

APRIL 16, 2019

March 6, 2003. An Introduction to IMP/IMS , in 2003, the Federal Government revised its acquisition policies with a procurement strategy focused on process improvement and acquisition reform implemented by Performance Based Management, 17 Oct 2004. The starting point is understanding what processes make up the discipline of estimating.

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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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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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Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2016

Unrealistic Cost and Schedule estimates based on inadequate risk adjusted growth models. Before diving into the details of these, let me address another issue that has come up around project success and estimates. All that line says is this was the baseline estimate at Completion for the project work. Just the estimate.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Estimation is part of project management. . The most important estimates for the project manager are related to time and cost. . Since it is easier to estimate small tasks, these estimates are often calculated and performed as point estimates, for example, a task will take 3 days. My proposal is don't estimate.

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The Tao of Project Management

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Another one from the Why Do Projects Fail website: Edinburgh City Council: Tram Network (Sep 2003 to May 2014) When originally conceived the project was intended to reduce traffic congestion, reduce carbon emissions and help the city cope with the increased demand for public transport in the next decade.

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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

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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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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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

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%. Business services and healthcare are expected to lead job growth between 2010 and 2020. [11]. 8,153,340.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The previous approaches to project performance management and production of the Estimate to Complete and Estimate at Completion make use of past performance. Estimating Models for Program Management," Norman Womer and Jeff Cman, Final Technical Reports, N00014-00-1-0280, Unversity of Mississippi, 2003.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Agile Alliance [6] "Technical Measurement Guide, Gary Roedler and Cheryl Jones, INCOSE-TP-2003-020-01 , December 2005. [7] Griffin, NASA Administrator [3] "The Art and Science of Systems Engineering," Michael Ryschkewitsch, Dawn Schaible, and Wiley Larson, Systems Research Forum , Vol. 81-100, 2009. [4] 5] "What is Agile?",

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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

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. Pros: Nutcache is a solution designed for managing the entire project delivery lifecycle from the initial project estimate to the final client billing. user/month.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

They maybe estimate them using new story points, planning, poker, they burn them down, they produce a working test and increment of software at the end of every sprint. And I’ve been FL around this world since about 2003. They write user stories in a specific format. Some of you people I know in this room know version one, right?

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

And during the 2007 and 2003 versions, we got a new way of creating reports. And please take note that we have resources in here, we have estimated work, we have duration, we have some completed tasks. But then Microsoft Project evolved. And what that would do is it would grab the data from a schedule. In 2007, it became in color.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 24, 2019

So again, part of that Agile discipline is to help the teams be focused, to help them estimate and learn because in many cases, they’ve never done this work before. I can kind of plan and estimate. What’s deeper estimates?” We can sit here, we can build these all day long. I got prioritization.

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