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OCTOBER 5, 2018

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? As more details get developed, the Cone converges to the actual value. Steve McConnell.

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MARCH 17, 2019

Event-Based Scheduling , 10 November 2006. Agile Project Management. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008.

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MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. Estimation of Long?Term reducible and irreducible ?

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MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. requires making estimates) ?

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AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. The Cone of Uncertainty,” Stephen Gryphon, Phillippe Kruchten, and Steve McConnell, Letters, IEEE Software , 23 (5) 2006, pp 8?10.

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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. Stewart, ACTEX Publications, 2006. No References?

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DECEMBER 3, 2017

Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. Some feel that the cone does not provide any value for the work they do and does not match the reducing uncertainty in their estimates. This letter states.

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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. This is the motivation for short work intervals found in agile development. . All estimates have precision and accuracy. A percentage of that value.

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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.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

The Standish Report is raising its head again in the Agile presentations I've seen recently at conferences. The Non-Existent Software Crisis: Debunking the Standish Report. 8, pages 15-16, August 2006. Laurens Eveleens and Chris Verhoef, IEEE Software , vol. Standish Report. Standish Report and Naive Statistics.

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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. Even with clear requirements?—?and

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APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Project Management (#APM). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams.

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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.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities.

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JULY 17, 2016

There is a popular graph showing project performance versus the estimated project performance in " Schedule Estimation and Uncertainty Surrounding the Cone of Uncertainty ," Todd Little, IEEE Software , May/June 2006. . In fact estimates can easily be wrong for many reasons. Thi sis a post hoc concern.

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JULY 22, 2020

If you’re also interested in Agile project management, pair the PMBOK with the PMI’s new Agile Practice Guide or our own Guide on How to Pick the Software Development Process that’s Right For you. Key lessons inside: Jeff Sutherland is one of the masters of Agile project management. Author: Brett Harned.

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JANUARY 22, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). the beginning of a project, comparatively little is known about the product or work results, and so estimates are subject to large uncertainty.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). the beginning of a project, comparatively little is known about the product or work results, and so estimates are subject to large uncertainty.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty. The BLUE bars are the probabilistic ranges of the current estimate date.

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