Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In September 2007 I published a guide to why projects fail. My project alphabet was a popular post of 2010 and inspired Derek Huether to write a book about zombie project management*. For more up-to-date software reviews, see my complete list here. At the time, the project was desperately short of cash. Don’t know what that is?

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

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. Don't hear one?

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Teamweek

MAY 30, 2022

It’s a powerful text editing software. Here’s what we’ll cover: How to make a checklist in Word 2010? How to make a checklist in Word 2010? The disadvantage of this method is that it works only with Microsoft Word 2010 and up. If you’re using Microsoft Word 2007 or before, you can only create a printable checklist.

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Herding Cats

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 ? This variation can be explained by the fact that initial concepts do not describe the final software system accurate enough.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 255, April 2010. 24, 2010. “A México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. 920, November 2004.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

“The Cone of Uncertainty,” Stephen Gryphon, Phillippe Kruchten, and Steve McConnell, Letters, IEEE Software , 23 (5) 2006, pp 8?10. Coping with the Cone of Uncertainty: An Empirical Study of the SAIV Process Model,” Da Yang, Barry Boehm, Ye Yang, Qing Wang, and Mingshu Li, ICSP 2007 , LNCS 4470, pp. 37–48, 2007.

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Herding Cats

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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 24, 2010. “A

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 18, 2021

Unfortunately, since MPP files were not designed to be shared outside of Microsoft Project, the project management software that they are created in, trying to open an MPP file extension can cause confusion and delay. Microsoft Project is one of the oldest project management software options around and is a part of MS Office suite.

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Herding Cats

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. And if the competitor is shipping software with greater value, how does the Cone impact that? 37-48, 2007. 37-48, 2007. Thesis, University of Southern California, August 2012.

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Shipping on time, to specifications, and within budget might be meaningless if a competitor is shipping software that has a greater value to the market. It's suggested from observations, the Cone of Uncertainty (CoU) is not a valid model of how uncertainty behaves in software development projects. 37–48, 2007. . Laird and M.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's start with a clear and concise description of the problem of successfully managing projects in the presence of uncertainty: Accurate software cost and schedule estimations are essential for non-trivial software projects. As a software project progresses, more information about the project is known. 37–48, 2007.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Research has linked team cognition to higher performance and motivation (Mathieu et al, 2000), increased effectiveness (Kearny, Gebert & Voelpel, 2009), and generally explains a substantial amount of the variance (~19%) in the effectiveness of teams (De Church & Mesmer-Magnus, 2010). So … stable teams or fluid teams? J., & McLendon, C.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. ASE’10, September 20–24, 2010, Antwerp, Belgium. . [8] Software Engineering Economics”. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation, Yourdon Press, 1982. [13]

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Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. ASE’10, September 20–24, 2010, Antwerp, Belgium. . [8] Software Engineering Economics”. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation, Yourdon Press, 1982. [13]

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. ASE’10, September 20–24, 2010, Antwerp, Belgium. . [8] Software Engineering Economics”. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation, Yourdon Press, 1982. [13]

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." Macroeconomics is not. .

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MPUG

JUNE 28, 2020

But let’s face facts: Microsoft is in the business of selling software, and they were not going to combine these two! I got to thinking about my history with the MSP the other day, and thought the software’s evolution might be an interesting topic to explore. MSP 2010 was a significant upgrade, and the last to run on Windows XP.

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MPUG

JUNE 30, 2019

Microsoft Project is a software application sold by Microsoft that provides project management tools to manage projects. The software is automatically kept up to date (with options for customizable policies). Microsoft Project 2010. Microsoft Project Standard 2010: A single-user edition of the software.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

Research shows that for projects, especially software projects Aleatory uncertainty is the predominant source of risk. 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. Software Risk Management , Barry W.

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MPUG

JULY 17, 2020

Jim is the president of Critical Tools, the makers of WBS Schedule Pro Software. Jim has been a part of the product management software business since 1985 and for the past 20 plus years with Critical Tools. Jim helped design and develop the software that you’ll see demoed today called WBS Schedule Pro. Kyle: Great.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Why do software teams?—?despite 2012, Li & Shatnawi, 2007). Either way, code smells are persistent and remain in the code for a long time after their initial introduction (Chatzigeorgiou & Manakos, 2010). . Why is code quality so often an issue? despite their best initial intentions?—?often I have many intuitions about this.

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Digite

MARCH 12, 2018

In my over 25+ years in the software industry, this has been an all too familiar situation! I have often wondered – doesn’t speak too well of us as software professionals! However, the fact is that software development is a complex activity – perhaps more so than any other type of projects? Our Kanban Journey.

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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. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2020

. – You know, largest banks in the country, which were also, you know, to your point about our mainframe teams being kind of traditional, waterfall-driven teams, well, the banks as an entity, that’s the only thing they understood, and looked at anything contrary to that to just be an inappropriate way to build software.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Agile Software Development (#ASD). Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In software development, those managing the project have some understanding the market forces (from their marketing departments), the technology (from their engineering department), and how to manage in the presence of Aleatory and Epistemic risk (the managers running a successful firm). Software projects are non-ergodic.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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 ‒ Steve McConnell. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

And so this is where agile kind of fits in and isn’t just necessarily only for software development. And remember, agile is kind of born out of the need for technical project management or in many cases, software development. But it is clearly not limited to just software.

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