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. Department of Energy.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Schedule Estimation and Uncertainty Surrounding the Cone of Uncertainty," Todd Little, IEEE Software , May/June 2006. IT Risk Management. “Effort Estimation in Agile Software Development using Story Points,” Evita Coelho and Anirban Basu, International Journal of Applied Information Systems (IJAIS), Volume 3, Number 7, August 2012.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. Dealing with Aleatory (irreducible) uncertainty and the resulting risk requires we have margin. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value. One starting point is the value at risk.

2003 46

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Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2017

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths & Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management , Jeffrey Pfeffer and Rober Sutton, Harvard Business School Press, 2006. The Flaw of Averages : Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty , Sam L. Savage, John Wiley & Sons, 2012. Related articles.

2006 37

2006 Estimate 2012 2014 37

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. This is done by active risk management, through probabalistic decision-making.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. Now To Risk Management. Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives. ISO 31000:2009, ISO 17666:2016, and ISO 11231:2010 Risk is Uncertainty that Matters.

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Risk avoidance and risk reduction activities – Sure, maybe. Here’s a typical backlog showing a combination of features, change requests, bug fixes and a couple of risk reduction activities. Working as a developer at Data Sciences Ltd in the UK I wrote a program to manage our work tasks on a government project.

2006 68

2006 2012 Risk Management Risk 68

Inloox

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

That's because prioritizing now involves selecting projects from a portfolio of innovation initiatives that offer the greatest benefit and managing risk, because innovation is inherently risky. If you want innovation, you must also be prepared to take risks. Examples of business model innovations can be found in the media industry.

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Innovation 2015 2019 Underperforming Technical Team 100

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Risk Management (#RM). Governance (#Governance). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Project Governance - project management is a well-defined concept found in many guidebooks and Bodies of Knowledge.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Velociteach

JANUARY 15, 2024

I’ve known Harold since 2006, have been working with him since 2006, and he’s just got a vast amount of experience and knowledge on, not just project management, but different industries and how consulting practices work and how project managers get things done. There’s nobody better to talk to us about it than Harold.

Consulting 89

Consulting 2006 Closing Governance 89

Velociteach

APRIL 3, 2023

And that requires some risk, especially if you’re an introvert. government funded billions of dollars on brain research. So yes, it’s not easy to develop in the sense that it requires practice. BILL YATES: Yeah. VANESSA DRUSKAT: So you can’t just read about it. You have to do it. A Work in Progress BILL YATES: Yeah. Pryke and H.

Influencer 69

Influencer Software Review Leadership Defining 69

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." . They don't care about cost, risk, schedule, the probability that they'll get what they paid you for.

Estimate 37

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

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." . They don't care about cost, risk, schedule, the probability that they'll get what they paid you for.

Estimate 35

Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 35

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." . Define the risks - reducible and irreducible - to each Capability and their Features.

Estimate 42

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc. What the Data Say About IT project Risk in the Public Sector,” Alexander Budzier and Bent Flyvbjerg, in Commonwealth Governance Handbook, 2012/2013: Democracy, development, and Public Administration, Commonwealth Secretariat, December 2012. 61, September 2004.

Estimate 40

Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Software effort estimation terminology: The tower of Babel,” Stein Grimstad, Magne Jørgensen, Kjetil Moløkken-Østvold, Information and Software Technology 48 (2006) 302–310. Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006. ” Organizational Structure Impacts Flight Software Cost Risk,” Jairus M. 449-462, July 2004.

Estimate 64

Estimate 2006 2005 2013 64

Wrike

JULY 26, 2023

It offers advanced PMO capabilities that can easily handle OKR planning, governance, Agile methodology , project portfolio management , resourcing , and reporting. It’s a proven, dedicated work management platform that’s been around since 2006, helping teams, organizations, and enterprises in more than 140 countries.

Technical Review 36

Technical Review PMO Software Review Budget 36