Leading Agile

JANUARY 15, 2019

The title is based on a quote from the 2007 movie, Ghost Rider. Zoom out from the team level to the organizational level, and you see organizations starting more projects than they have the capacity to complete, and agreeing to meet impossible deadlines, in a downward spiral of budget overruns and eroding trust. The two fight briefly.

Software Review 89

Software Review Development Team Review 2007 Technical Review 89

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

All making things smaller dos is show that you're late, over budget, and what you're building (Technical Performance Measures) doesn't work faster. Software Risk Management , Barry W. Strategic Risk Taking: A Framework for Risk Management , FT Press, August 12, 2007. Ravindranath Pandian, Auerbach Publications, 2007.

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

“Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. & Zein, S.,

Estimate 40

Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

If your uncertainty is not reducing at some planned rate, you're not managing the project for success and you're going to be late, over budget and the products not likley to work or some combination of those. If the product with the needed Features shows up late and over budget, is that good business management? 37-48, 2007.

2007 34

2007 2012 2009 2010 34

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

Risk Management 38

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

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MAY 11, 2019

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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

Risk Management 35

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. Bauman, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry , April 1958.

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28