International Institute for Learning

JUNE 2, 2022

Rubin Jen has been in the project management field for over 23 years, spanning aerospace, engineering, telecom, software development, outsourcing, consulting, not-for-profit and government sectors. Rubin is the principal of Beyond Execution, a project management/Agile training and consulting firm.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A Microsoft Project viewer is a piece of software that gives users the ability to open, export and print MS Project files without a Microsoft Project license. Microsoft Project is expensive, and it doesn’t share well with others who don’t have a copy of the software, which is generally clunky. Many Versions of MSP.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Project management is no different. The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a nonprofit organization for those working in project management across the globe. As an organization, it offers training and certification in project management, and it reports regularly on industry trends. A History of PMI.

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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. IT Risk Management.

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Ganttic

OCTOBER 23, 2016

That may seem strange, but even the trip to the store and managing of a great corporation have something in common. And some specialized software can really help. You may wonder if there is a real need for resource planning software. You may wonder if there is a real need for resource planning software.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

Ready to transform your approach to project management and software development? Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. It helps in managing workload effectively and ensures quality output.

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Wrike

JANUARY 12, 2024

Jeff Kinney’s hit children’s book series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid , was first released in 2007 and is still rolling out installments each year. You should have a complete picture of each idea’s potential risks and rewards before you devote a significant portion of your resources to it.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development.

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Planio

JULY 9, 2020

Even software. Redmine is the most popular open source project management tool and issue tracker out there, thanks in large part to it’s dedicated community of users and contributors. Why use an open source project management tool like Redmine? Configuring Redmine for project management. How do I run Redmine?

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Traditional project management approaches, several of which are based on a strong belief in the cone of uncertainty, advocate stronger project control and greater planning. 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.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is done by active risk management, through probabalistic decision-making.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

nTask

MARCH 10, 2021

It took until 2007 for the Definition of Done (DoD) to be a widespread full-fledged practice. Managed by the development team. ”. This confusion often comes from the fact that individuals and teams often mix up that the DoD is in fact a project management issue rather than a quality control one. Here is why.

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Software Review Technical Review 2002 2007 78

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

In software this is a HUGE mistake! A requirement is a statement that identifies a product or processes operational, functional, or design characteristic or constraint, which is unambiguous, testable, or measurable and necessary for product or process acceptability (ISO 2007). 1] Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, [link] . [2]

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 18, 2021

Managing a project is a team effort. Depending on the project management tools that you use, you could end up with files of various types—and this can cause compatibility issues. Depending on the project management tools that you use, you could end up with files of various types—and this can cause compatibility issues.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's say you're the project or program manager of a large complex system. We cannot escape these two uncertainties - reducible and irreducible - and must learn how to manage in the presence of these uncertainties. As a software project progresses, more information about the project is known. Abstracted from [3].

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. Gano, Atlas Books, 2007. What factors lead to software project failure?”

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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." Boehm, Barry W.

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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. Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. This extended post covers.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . Software Risk Management , Barry W.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Project Controls are Management Actions, either preplanned to achieve the desired result, or taken as a corrective measure prompted by the monitoring process. Success from the business point of view is usually out of the control of the project management and development organizations. "On spec" is open loop control on value.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The project and portfolio management (PPM) software market is changing. In this article we look at emerging software in the PPM space and discuss how its selection and implementation needs to be done in line with an overarching digital strategy. Digitalization and Collaboration. Researching What PPM Tools Can Do.

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Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150

The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Information Technology is a young industry with several even younger career paths, one of which is Information Technology Service Management (ITSM). Most of these roles were based on aspects of IT operation, such as mainframe operation and maintenance, which later evolved into software development and commercialisation.

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2001 2007 2024 Information Technology 78

Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. When the members manage to successfully navigate the conflicts from this stage, they move into the norming stage. This effect is stronger for smaller teams than larger teams.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 12, 2021

The need for specialists in the field of project management is growing annually because businesses are getting bigger and most companies are becoming project-based. According to the research by Project Management Institute , 87.7 million project management-oriented experts will be required by 2027 by different companies worldwide.

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nTask

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

If you are interested in finding out the top Outlook Calendar integrations available with the software that you are using, you have come to the right place. Using a calendar tool or app is common for pretty much everyone, and many individuals stick to the calendar app that comes with the primary software they or their company is using.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Satya is a management professional speaker, coach and author of six books. In his course of MS Project live lessons is one of the most used courses by management practitioners. How does Microsoft project software address this two-pass technique? And we’ll see how does Microsoft Project software determines the total float?

Software Review 52

Software Review Lean SCRUM PMI 52

Planio

JULY 22, 2020

The number one thing every project manager needs to level up their skills is experience. A good project management book. While there are tons of fantastic resources online for learning how to be a better project manager (such as this blog!) Jump to a section: The best books for mastering the fundamentals of project management.

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2020 Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 148

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. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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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Software Review 2014 Planning Technical Review 52

MPUG

JUNE 30, 2019

Microsoft Project is a software application sold by Microsoft that provides project management tools to manage projects. It provides alternate methods of organization to accommodate other methods of managing projects (i.e. Project Online Professional : Designed for the project manager and is subscription based.

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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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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2020

– And I was a project manager. – And you were a project manager in a different part of the organization. – Yeah, I remember one time I think I drove up to Charlotte to meet with some executives at MBNA and to teach them about how we were managing software projects. – [Mike] Yeah, yeah.

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