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.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

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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2002 SCRUM 2007 2003 209

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.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. These are all focused on developing software, delivering that software to those paying the developers. Why This Missing Concept is Important to Agile Software Development? . 81-100, 2009. [4]

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Software Developers Software Development Agile Software 39

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.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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.

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

Estimate 40

Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. For software development starts with. This solution is called Software Engineering.

Estimate 37

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. Is this normal?

Estimate 42

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. And, my customer is equally as clueless about the need to estimate as I am. Probably not. .

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Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 35

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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Estimate 2006 2005 2013 64

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.

2021 26

2021 Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 26

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%. Why a Majority of Business and IT Teams Anticipate Their Software Development Projects Will Fail.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

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. And let’s see that live in action, where I click on new, and I click on for instance, a software development plan.

2013 40

2013 Finance 2007 Software Review 40

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.

Agile 40

Agile Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 40

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.

Technical Review 43

Technical Review 2010 Estimate Software Review 43