Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The Cone of Uncertainty is a useful approach to defining the expected range of uncertainty at specific stages in a project. 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 ?

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 12, 2021

As, for example, an IT project manager orchestrates IT projects and leads corresponding teams in their software development efforts. The industry a PM works in defines the specifics of projects. . Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2007—North America, Atlanta, GA. Document Controller manages project documentation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The implementation strategy requires having a plan with the final objectives defined. We add digitalised applications to the existing situation without a defined improvement path. We are attracted to the latest cool application, with the potential to jeopardise the software environment. Click To Tweet. Implementation Issues.

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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. First, the Cone of Uncertainty is a Principle used to define the needed reduction in the variances of estimates on Programs. 37-48, 2007.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? Project Risk Management: Lessons Learned from Software Development Environment,” Y. 255, April 2010. 920, November 2004. 1994): 707-712.

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Planio

JULY 9, 2020

If you’re looking for a new project management tool, this guide will run you through the basics of what Redmine is, why it’s a great choice for most software development teams, and how you can get it set up and optimized for you! And since 2007, that community has included the Planio team! What is Redmine? Reliability.

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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. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? Kwak and J.

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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 development is a non-ergodic process.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The UCL and LCL are defined BEFORE the project starts. The efforts that produce these improvements must be defined and managed. Defining the planned and needed variance levels at planned points in the project is the basis of the closed loop control system needed increase the probability of success. Software Eng.,

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The UCL and LCL are defined BEFORE the project starts. The efforts that produce these improvements must be defined and managed. Defining the planned and needed variance levels at planned points in the project is the basis of the closed loop control system needed increase the probability of success. Software Eng.,

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The UCL and LCL are defined BEFORE the project starts. The efforts that produce these improvements must be defined and managed. Defining the planned and needed variance levels at planned points in the project is the basis of the closed loop control system needed increase the probability of success. Software Eng.,

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Planio

JULY 22, 2020

To make a complex practice like project management simpler, the most recent version of the PMBOK breaks the core project management processes down into five sections: Initiating : Defining a new project or a new phase of an existing project. Published date: 2007. Define actionable next steps to take. Author: Brett Harned.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. These activities, their releationships and values are defined in a PLAN for increasing the probability of success for the project.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 27, 2018

An API’s purpose is not to be a perfect model, but to define the intended interactions between a requester and a provider of a service. The impression was reinforced strongly when I attempted to bridge the divide by participating in the academic tracks of agile and technical conferences in the 2007-2008 time frame. Out of scope.

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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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MPUG

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

And during the 2007 and 2003 versions, we got a new way of creating reports. In 2007, it became in color. He was curious, does the phase progress report widget allow reporting by a user defined category? But the main question is, can that be user define, I believe? But then Microsoft Project evolved. Maybe it is in here.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I can define the board status where it is, where it has, and I’ve got that whole sheet view to work with.” I’ve got a whole team that does training and software development and integration, but we really love the project management space. Let me come in here, and I can actually change the sprints.

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