Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. Aleatory uncertainty is expressed as a process variability. First, let's establish a principle.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

It happens, for example, when we don’t trust a certain person or group of people, and then only see behavior that fits with our belief (or even interpret it as such) without considering observations where they don’t (Oswald & Grosjean, 2004). Ross & Nisbett (2011) offer an extensive overview of research in this area. . Survival bias.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. This uncertainty is modeled as a stochastic process of an inherently random physical model. Now To Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

Paul Chavas, Elsevier Academic Press, 2004. Henry Montgomery (Editor), Universitetsforlaget; UK Edition, November 28, 2011. 3421, Second Edition, December 2011. Effective Opportunity Management for Project: Exploiting Positive Risk , David Hillson, Taylor & Francis, 2004. Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice , Jean?Paul

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). Agile Software Development (#ASD). 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 Performance Management (#PPM).

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. The Future of Systems-and Software Development.

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