Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

The paper Agile Base Patterns in the Agile Canon , Daniel R Greening, 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences is an important contribution to the discussion of agile at scale in organizations beyond 5 developers at the table with their customer. The Agile Cannon is composed of 5 elements.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Without this, we have an asymmetry since risks get transferred away from those who should have been held responsible. Another highly publicized example is that of the financial company executives who were never jailed for poor decision making which led to the 2008 financial crisis.

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Agilemania

MARCH 22, 2021

Project management has become an essential part of our fast-paced world. From small and medium to large scale, every business size depends on project management to successfully deliver their products and service. In recent times, there are multiple project management approaches available all around the world.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 15, 2017

A popular toss off aphrase in some agile circles is process reduces agility. In this domain today, Agile processes are the basis of engineering those systems. The last four are of course replicas of agile guidance. Agile for Aerospace Andrew Buter, Curt Stienstra, Steven H. VanderLeest GLSEC 2008. "A

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Leading Answers

AUGUST 29, 2020

Driven by three macroeconomic trends, the need for projects and project managers was increasing. Eric Ries documented his lean startup methodology in 2008 as a way for organizations to adapt and experiment with new ideas and perform market tests. The winds of change were strong before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Technical Review Energy Infrastructure Software Review 78

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 risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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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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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. It can also indicate potential risks to existing projects. Introduction.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. What product discovery part, you may think now. Think of “MVP.”).

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 1, 2016

In other words, it was like the wild west of project management. It took us six months to hone the LiquidPlanner company concept of a SaaS-based dynamic project management app; one capable of predicting completion schedules in real-time. Building LiquidPlanner. We left Expedia to fix this problem. See how we do it.

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Leankor

AUGUST 20, 2020

How Salesforce and the Right Work and Project Management Solution Can Ensure Business Continuity and Accelerate Delivery Success in a Remote World. Managing projects has been around long before it had a name. Another crucial development has been the instruments to help successfully manage all kinds of projects.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 13, 2018

Traditional methods of quantitative cost-benefit analysis, like Net Present Value (NPV) or Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), either ignore or cannot properly capture the needs of management for flexibility to adapt and revise later decisions based on the uncertainties found on all IT projects. 72, 2nd Quarter, 2008, pp. IT Risk Management.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2019

When roles are defined this way, there is a risk that gaps and gray areas emerge. We will take this idea even further during our Agile Power Week in Munich Germany when we not only teach the individual roles but unite the roles in an Open Space. For an effective Scrum team that statement makes perfect sense.

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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. We are open to possibilities.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

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. All is good so far until he mentions these concepts are applicable to the management of projects. The role of the Project Manager in each category is dramatically different.

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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. Rather than update Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated) again, let me provide a bibliography of papers describing the origins of the Cone and it's use in the management of Programs.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

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. All is good so far until he mentions these concepts are applicable to the management of projects. The role of the Project Manager in each category is dramatically different.

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2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 28

Velociteach

MARCH 20, 2023

The podcast by project managers for project managers. WENDY GROUNDS: You’re listening to Manage This , the podcast for project managers by project managers. Welcome to Manage This. JOHN HOLMES: I have a degree in turf grass management. The FIFA World Cup is the biggest sporting event in the world.

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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. The CoU is a build-to paradigm, where measures of the program's performance cumulative to date is used to inform the risk for future performance.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

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). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

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Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

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). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

June Verner, Jennifer Sampson, and Narciso Cerpa, Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, 2008. “A A Taxonomy of an IT Project Failure: Root Causes,” Walid Al-Ahmad, Et Al, International Management Review, Vol. Why Do Information Technology Projects Fail?” 02163, May 8, 2014. 29 May 2013.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

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). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

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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MPUG

DECEMBER 23, 2020

So my latest book is the PMO lifecycle, building, running and shutting down, Project Communication tools is my latest communication book, the Tactical guide for building a PMO in way back, and that’s why it looks a little different, but way back in 2008, I published Project Management communication Bible. Has that been applied?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 3, 2021

There are a lot of project management software tools to choose from, and there are a few that truly seem to dominate the space, like Oracle’s Primavera P6. How can you find the project management solution that fits your organization, project and the way your team works? It’s not only used by project managers , though.

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Teamweek

MAY 21, 2020

Trello and Asana are two popular project management tools. 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. Are there any constraints or risks? Team management.

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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. What should be included in an Agile release plan? Track your progress with an Agile burndown chart 9. Release too often, and you risk overwhelming your users.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

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. Now To Risk Management. Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives.

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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). LEAN processes emerged in 1991, with the Agile Manifesto launched by a group of software engineers in 2001. Service Integration and Management, aka SIAM, was developed in 2005.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

There are meaningful and very true thoughts there, but how do they stand the test of time in our changing world where enhancements like agile workflows, robotic automation, and artificial intelligence are impacting the future landscape of project management at large? What Project Management Companies Offer Planning Intelligence?

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The IIL Blog

JUNE 28, 2018

. | Senior Executive Director for Project Management, IIL. According to management guru Peter Drucker, there are only two sources for growth: marketing and innovation [Drucker, 2008]. According to management guru Peter Drucker, there are only two sources for growth: marketing and innovation [Drucker, 2008].

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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. When the members manage to successfully navigate the conflicts from this stage, they move into the norming stage.

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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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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM).

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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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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. Now that many scheduling approaches, why you go for a schedule in your project or program or any other plan that you are going to manage.

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