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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991.

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Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching

Scrum.org

A software development effort is always a system! Small changes can produce big results—but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006). Management was practicing Gemba Walks approach from Lean Thinking. There is no blame (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006).

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Route to Enterprise Scale Agility

Digite

I caught up with Kanban pioneer David Anderson on the sidelines of Lean Kanban Central Europe and Lean Kanban India last year and asked him about his thoughts. While Scrum is probably most prevalent in IT, Kanban and Lean are significant too. It was replicated at Robert Bosch’s South Bend, Indiana facility in 2006.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. Pich, Working Paper, 21/2006, Cambridge University, Judge Business School. “A De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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. MĂ©xico, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. De Meyer, C.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

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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Project collaboration: the key to successful project management (and happy teams)

Resource Guru

This can also result in new and improved products or processes. Now, collaboration in itself is a process, but collaborating with people and doing it well is something that requires skills shaped by experience. The launch of Google Docs back in 2006 sure brought collaboration to a new (much-needed) level.