Herding Cats

OCTOBER 30, 2018

There have been some recent posts about managing scope, defining needed Features, determining how to release software to stakeholders - in both traditional and agile processes. The primary document produced from the Capabilities Based Planning process is the Concept of Operations. Davis, Russell D.

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Gunther Verheyen

JANUARY 27, 2021

In April 2010, at an event of the Agile Consortium Belgium in Brussels, I asked Jeff Sutherland about this new organization founded by his former companion. I had been closely following up on the emergence and growth of Scrum.org as it coincided with a personal process of professional recovery. It intrigued me.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Managment Processes. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Agile Project Management. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Flawless Execution.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint—just to name a few.

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Software Review Technical Review Cadence SCRUM 144

Agilemania

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Concerns were voiced in the IT operations and software development sectors from 2007 to 2008 about the old software development paradigm that split operations from developers regarding how code was distributed and supported. The DevOps technique supports continuous innovation, agility, and scalability. What is DevOps?

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EasyProjects

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

What is Agile Project Management? . Have you ever seen a chef send a dish out without tasting it several times at every stage of the process? That is precisely what agile project management is – taste testing the stew at various points to ensure that it’s tasting the way it should. Agile Project Management Defined.

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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. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 3, March 2002.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. While some have publication dates that may seem old, the principles in these books are immutable, even for agile projects. Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006.

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Software Developers Software Development Estimate 2006 46

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. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 5, September/October 2011. 3, March 2002.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

LiquidPlanner

JUNE 1, 2016

Sure, we did our best muddling through the process with complex spreadsheets that were out-of-date as soon as they were built. We didn’t really realize it at the time, but we built and launched the company using many of the concepts that Eric Ries later elegantly defined in his 2008 book The Lean Startup.

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Agile Coach

APRIL 19, 2018

Context : it’s important to understand what triggered me to move away from agile, and into org change. About a decade ago I was an innocent bystander in a screaming match between our ‘senior’ agile coach and a senior manager. That’s the reader’s digest of my life from 2008 to 2014. F-bombs and all.

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Project Management Essentials

MARCH 31, 2019

This metric is attributed to Hammer and Champy’s 1993 classic, “Reengineering the Corporation” and is reinforced by a 2008 McKinsey survey of executives. In this article, I suggest that we use an agile-adaptive approach for our organizational change and transformation initiatives. That is our journey.

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2008 Agile Initiating Executing 40

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

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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PM Times

APRIL 7, 2021

It will discuss why the Core IT Complexity model is a good approach for most IT organizations and why it is important to determine project complexity as an ongoing and integral part of the Change Management and Risk Management process. Their complexity modeling could be part of a larger overall Risk Management process. Introduction.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. Olagbemiro, Naval Postgraduate School Dissertation, December 2008. The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Root Cause is the fundamental initiating cause on a causal chain leading to a failure of a process which results in a recurrence of the problem. Root Cause Analysis is a systematic documented approach to arrive at the true Root Cause of the process problem. What factors lead to software project failure?” 29 May 2013. 1/2, 2001, pp.

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Leankor

AUGUST 20, 2020

In 2008, Software as a Service (SaaS) began to become a norm. They have also launched work.com, to guide business through the reopening process. They need an application that can support different work methodologies, from Waterfall to Agile, offer preferred visuals like Kanban Boards and Gannt charts.

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Telecoms 2008 Risk Management Construction 36

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. Google will find each of these for you, as a start to the extensive body of litertaure for estimating agile projects in the presence of uncertainty. 37-48, 2007.

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Velociteach

MARCH 20, 2023

In this unique project story, John Holmes explains how he navigated the selection process and became the exclusive supplier of turfgrass for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. We didn’t invent the process, but we somewhat perfected it. And we’ll get into that process, sure, in a little while. And we set off, took off running in 2011.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

They are not the same, the processes of decision making are not the same. Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty. These behaviors are by their nature intractable to standard project management processes.

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2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 34

Planio

MAY 22, 2023

With 80% of companies using Agile project management methodologies to run their businesses, release planning has become more important than ever. What should be included in an Agile release plan? Track your progress with an Agile burndown chart 9. Jump to a section: What is release planning (and why does it matter)?

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Planning Agile Software Review Estimate 78

Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

They are not the same, the processes of decision making are not the same. Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty. These behaviors are by their nature intractable to standard project management processes.

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2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 28

MPUG

DECEMBER 23, 2020

And welcome to today’s MPUG webinar, the Project Recovery Process. This was a project recovery process. And so that’s what I’ve done is I’ve put together that process. So basically what I did is I put together a three-step process. Kyle: Hello everyone. Do how to recover a project?

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Resource Guru

JUNE 16, 2022

If you’re looking to switch from your current project management processes and explore new solutions to streamline your daily tasks, there are plenty of software options out there to help you. Wrike is owned by Citrix – and as a result, it was built with a heavy focus on solving problems for enterprise-level companies and agile teams.

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Software Review Technical Review 2022 Software 52

Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Kozlowski & Ilgen (2006) describe this reciprocity as “process begets structure, which in turn guides process”.

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Velociteach

AUGUST 14, 2023

How can agile project managers create conditions for self-organizing teams to thrive? In the agile world of a self-organizing team, the trend is to empower the team so the individuals doing the work can make decisions. So what role does management play in the agile world of a self-organizing team? 18:29 … What’s in a Title?

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

LEAN processes emerged in 1991, with the Agile Manifesto launched by a group of software engineers in 2001. ITIL was partly in response to the UK government’s desire to standardise how we deliver IT services and became the de-facto approach to what became known as ITSM.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Measure that is modeled in the Cone the variable is the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measure. With this paradigm we have logically connected project management processes with Control System processesIf the variances, created by uncertainty going outside the UCL and LCL.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Measure that is modeled in the Cone the variable is the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measure. With this paradigm we have logically connected project management processes with Control System processesIf the variances, created by uncertainty going outside the UCL and LCL.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

Research (Janiszewski & Uy, 2008) even shows that precise offers (e.g. Survival bias happens when failures are ignored when you are evaluating if a process or decision is the right one (Schermer, 2014). HR departments can conclude that their recruitment process is working well because it is producing suitable candidates.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. Again this is simple statistical process control, using feedback to take corrective actions to control future outcomes - feedforward. Resources. [1] Air Force. [4]

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The IIL Blog

JUNE 28, 2018

According to management guru Peter Drucker, there are only two sources for growth: marketing and innovation [Drucker, 2008]. Innovation management , in its purest form, is a combination of the management of innovation processes and change management. The change can be incremental or radical.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

It’s an agile activity which looks like it ought to be a no-brainer for teams…something they’d want to buy into, and of clear value to all. Everyone else seems to have more important matters to attend to than another piece of agile “fluff”. The original is Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas , proposed in 2008. Why, though?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

This is more or less the time you started searching for "scaling agile" "scaling scrum" and exploring your options. I've been using Kanban as a scaling mechanism on top of Scrum since around 2008 or so and it has been the approach I reach out to most often. Generally, one approach will be to add some scaling principles and practices.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 27, 2018

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. They weren’t professional software developers, and they were pretty new at the whole process of doing research, as well.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). Agile Project Management (#APM). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Management Processes. Project Performance Management (#PPM).

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

So, can you speak about artificial intelligence in project management if you still control all the related processes and make important decisions by yourself? This database should contain information about processes, actions, and outcomes typical for the company. The most popular PM methodologies are as follows: Agile (Scrum, Kanban).

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