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. Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006. Don't hear one? Prentice Hall, 2000.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. 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. Use of Benefits of Tools for Project Risk Management,” T.

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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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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. Use of Benefits of Tools for Project Risk Management,” T.

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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Sure, we did our best muddling through the process with complex spreadsheets that were out-of-date as soon as they were built.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 even tried tools like Microsoft Project , but fundamentally ran into the same deal-breaker issue: none of these schedules were up-to-date. In other words, it was like the wild west of project management.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2018

AND to learn how to detect the bogus approaches to solving problems we see everywhere in software development. 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. A Correction fixed the immediate non-conformance. All for the want of a nail.

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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. 37-48, 2007.

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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. The second thing you look at is how is the project being developed?

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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. Release planning is the glue that connects your product vision and overall strategy to your day-to-day product development. What should be included in an Agile release plan?

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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. His book “Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber” was published in 2019. 18:29 … What’s in a Title?

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

This is the paradigm of the Cone of Uncertainty - it's a planned development compliance engineering tool, not an after the fact data collection tool. 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.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

This is the paradigm of the Cone of Uncertainty - it's a planned development compliance engineering tool, not an after the fact data collection tool. 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.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

As more research and development is done, more information is learned about the project, and the uncertainty then decreases, reaching 0% when all risk has been mitigated or transferred. This is the paradigm of the Cone of Uncertainty - it's a planned development compliance engineering tool, not an after the fact data collection tool.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

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. Since then, IT has become a tool that has weaved its way into our everyday lives; we interact with IT daily.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

This series is not about easy answers or practical tips, but to develop a more complete understanding of what may be going on. 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).

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). Agile Project Management (#APM). Product Development (#ProdDev). 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.

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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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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2020

According to PMI’s Job Growth and Talent Gap in Project Management 2017-2027 , organizations’ need for project talent has significantly increased since their previous investigation in 2008. Every project manager should have a strong understanding of project theories and methodologies, and be able to apply them in his or her work: Agile, .

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

Project management is as much about people as it is about processes. 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. Author: Brett Harned.

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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? What’s true is that Epicflow multi-project management tool is currently AI-ready and we have plans to start applying it in the near future. AI Forecast.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 27, 2018

” In it, I suggested several approaches developers could use to gain high confidence that their code would be suitable for release. They aren’t thinking about developing a general model for a class of problems. When I took an interest in this loop, I quickly ran afoul of academics. You probably spotted my error immediately.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

Risk Analysis – A Quantitative Guide , Third Edition, David Vose, John Wiley & Sons April 2008. Risk Analysis: A Quantitative Guide , David Vose, John Wiley & Sons 2008. Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure? Agile Risk Management and DSDM Pocketbook , Alan Moran, IARM.

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Teamweek

JUNE 25, 2020

And, while Asana is a great tool for micro-managing work, more creative teams are looking for Asana alternatives that allow better freedom at work. This article also covers: Features to look for in a project management tool for creative teams And, reasons why you may want to look at Asana alternatives. Stakeholder communication.

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Workzone

AUGUST 4, 2021

No other software on the market offers such an extensive onboarding and training process included with their subscription. Asana and many of its competitors offer an updated interface but fall short in providing some of the necessary tools without integrations and added upgrades. Learn more. Everything you need to manage your projects.

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Planio

MARCH 7, 2022

That’s a long timeframe to think about, especially for Agile teams. So, for example, When Airbnb launched in 2008, their product vision might have been something like: “In 5 years, Airbnb will be the more affordable and enjoyable way to stay in a new city or plan a trip.”. However, that wasn’t their only challenge.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. Economic principles underlie the overall structure of the software lifecycle, and its primary refinements of prototyping, incremental development, and advancemanship. Macroeconomics is not. . Boehm, Barry W. Now To Risk Management. Epistemic uncertainty ?

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Teamweek

MAY 21, 2020

Trello and Asana are two popular project management tools. Yet, both tools are very different and cater to different needs. Instead, both need to be evaluated based on: the size of your team, your project management workflow, and the tool’s onboarding time and ease of use. Essential features in project management tools.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 20, 2017

For software development systems like Kanban, which is production line-centric, Litle's Law tells us. There are two fundamental assumptions for Little's Law to work in the software development domain". Kanban and Software Development. Software Development Projects Rarely Have a Steady State Condition. Little's Law says.

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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. Chakraborty and K.

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Jez Lister

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In 2008 I started putting together an outline COTS methodology. I wanted to share my experience with others who are about to embark on the process of COTS identification, selection, procurement and implementation. A staggering amount of bespoke development fails to deliver what the users want. So, here it is.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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Paymo App

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Project management tools have come a long way in the last few years. We thought it was about time for a detailed article about the modern tools designed to support the ways teams work today. Modern project management tools are a mix of strong functionality, intuitive features and a clear user interface.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The business as usual, but with some technical processes get a bit wider. Monte Carlo Simulation tools are the heart of this work. This is a Closed Loop Control Systems for managing the performance of a Software Intensive System of Systems, all developed using Scrum. Let's Look At Some Myths of Monte Carlo Simulation.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 5, 2009

in January, 2008. Traditional project management built many successful tools and processes that helped to increase the chances of success in those projects. Traditional project management developed in an industrial economy. It’s simply amazing what a huge difference these lightweight processes make to the world.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 23, 2020

In their words: Founded in 2005 as an intimate gathering of friends DLD (Digital – Life – Design) has developed into Europe’s leading innovation conference for visionaries from around the globe. In their words: c’twebdev is a conference for web frontend developers, organized by the computer magazine c’t. DLD Conference.

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