Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History," Craig Larman and Victor Basili, IEEE Computer , June 2003. Herding Cats: The Classic Misunderstanding between Principles, Practices, and Process. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. IT Risk Management.

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2003 Software Engineering Manufacturing Engineering 38

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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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 2018 2003 60

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 105, 2003. “A Estimation of Long?Term reducible and irreducible ? 3, March 2002.

Risk Management 38

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

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." The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . Let's look at what an estimate is.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

requires making estimates) ? Effective Risk Management 2nd Edition, Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 105, 2003. “A Estimation of Long?Term reducible and irreducible ? 3, March 2002.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

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.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2003 Aerospace 28

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

‘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. This will affect all estimates and predictions.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

PP&C lives in the domain of Project Management and Controls, which is a Technical Management Processes of ISO 15288. In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes. The life-cycle processes of a project can be defined by ISO15288 as. The Project Planning Process is where project management is anchored.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 5, 2018

In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. The challenge with the PO role is that not only do you need someone who has deep business process knowledge regarding the product they are supporting, but they also need to have well established relationships with key stakeholders who will influence product direction.

Development Team Review 136

Development Team Review 2003 Underperforming Technical Team Influencer 136

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). While many of the presentations have similar titles, the content is focused on a specific set of processes and practices, while the principles are the same, since they are Immutable. . Management Processes. Project Success Assessment - A checklist for assessing the processes for project success.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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?

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

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

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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Estimate 2003 Aerospace Risk Management 37

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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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

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.

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

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

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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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Having a knowledge transfer process in place boosts the chance of project success by over 20%. [6]. Most Popular Agile Tools and Processes: Scrum – 43%. Poor purchasing processes: 23%. 18% use word processing documents. Estimated Project-Oriented Job Openings 2010-2020: . Popular Methodologies: 41% use PMBoK.

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2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

The elements include all hardware, software, equipment, facilities, personnel, processes, and procedures needed for this purpose; that is, all things required to produce system-level results. This last part is addressed in one Agile development process we use in our A&D domain - Scaled Agile for Enterprise (SAFe). References . [1]

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Software Developers Software Development Agile Software 39

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like imagine if you’re a 30 year architect running a COBOL mainframe system doing a payments processing engine there where nothing can be off by a penny and you’re having all these problems and somebody comes along and says, man, if you were just doing daily standup meetings, everything would work out. He goes, yeah, I get it.

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Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62

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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Workzone

AUGUST 4, 2021

No other software on the market offers such an extensive onboarding and training process included with their subscription. It’s easy for our group to manage and our users to submit and follow along as to where a project is during the process. Wrike is a project management system created in 2003 by Wrike, Inc. Learn more.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 24, 2019

It doesn’t mean that you won’t be doing wireframes, so it doesn’t mean you won’t be doing process maps. 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.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 20, 2022

Without going into details in all phases it can be easily imagined that the more information collected about the potential uncertainties ( risk identification ), the more accurate the estimation can be about the likelihood and the impact of these on the project ( risk analysis ). Piney, presented at PMI® Global Congress in 2003 (Ref. [3]),

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Risk 2003 Aerospace 2022 59

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.

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