Herding Cats

OCTOBER 15, 2017

A popular toss off aphrase in some agile circles is process reduces agility. I've been in the software development business for 30 years, mostly in the Software Intensive System of Systems world, where embedded systems are 100 times more prevalent than business, web and desktop systems. Coe and Jeffrey H.

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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. DevOps was formed by combining the concepts of development and operations.

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EasyProjects

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

What is Agile Project Management? . 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. Agile project management is an iterative or incremental approach to completing projects. How to be Agile.

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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: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp.

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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. 255, April 2010. 920, November 2004. Kwak and J.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 13, 2018

This is the same paradigm of Agile software development where responding to change over following the plan is part of the original manifesto. If you google "Real Options software development" or "real options ICT" you'll find these and many dozens more. 72, 2nd Quarter, 2008, pp. Here's a sample.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This is the motivation for short work intervals found in agile development. . Using the Agile Methodology to Mitigate the Risks of Highly Adaptive Projects,” Dana Roberson and Mary Anne Herndon, 10 th Annual CMMI Technology Conference And User Group , November 5 – 8, 2012, Denver, CO. The probability of something happening.

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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. 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.

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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. What factors lead to software project failure?” All for the want of a nail.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. 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.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. 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.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Agile Estimating and Planning, Prentice-Hall, 2005. [12] Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation, Yourdon Press, 1982. [13] Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management, Auer-bach, 2006. [15]Jorgensen, Software Eng.,

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Agile Estimating and Planning, Prentice-Hall, 2005. [12] Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation, Yourdon Press, 1982. [13] Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management, Auer-bach, 2006. [15]Jorgensen, Software Eng.,

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21. By the way, the pure conjecture that agile enables late changing requirements to not have a significant impact on the cost and schedule of the development project is completely lacking any testable evidence outside of personal anecdotes of agile advocates.

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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. LEAN processes emerged in 1991, with the Agile Manifesto launched by a group of software engineers in 2001.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Agile Estimating and Planning, Prentice-Hall, 2005. [12] Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation, Yourdon Press, 1982. [13] Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management, Auer-bach, 2006. [15]Jorgensen, Software Eng.,

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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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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. This corresponds with research on autonomous teams, as well as principles of Agile software development.

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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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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

Research (Janiszewski & Uy, 2008) even shows that precise offers (e.g. When comparing different approaches to develop software, survival bias can lead someone to conclude that plan-driven approaches work well based on a few success stories they have where they did. It is difficult not to simply replicate what you’ve read.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

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). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams.

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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. Agile Risk Management and DSDM Pocketbook , Alan Moran, IARM. Agile Risk Management and Scrum , Alan Moran, Institute for Agile Risk Management, 2014.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

If you’re also interested in Agile project management, pair the PMBOK with the PMI’s new Agile Practice Guide or our own Guide on How to Pick the Software Development Process that’s Right For you. Key lessons inside: Jeff Sutherland is one of the masters of Agile project management. Author: Brett Harned.

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Workzone

AUGUST 4, 2021

Jira is the flagship product of Australian software developer Atlassian’s. Jira began as a bug tracking software, but it has grown into a popular project management tool. Jira can create great reports for both roadmapping and agile project management. Most teams need more user-friendly software. user/month.

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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. λ = average production rate of complete software components. λ = average production rate of complete software components. There are two fundamental assumptions for Little's Law to work in the software development domain".

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 17, 2018

I didn’t realize James Bond was into software development. In answer to a different StackOverflow question , from October 2008, Benjamin Pollack explains, “The only problem with it is that it clutters your local namespace. For instance: This surprised me in a couple of different ways.

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Teamweek

JUNE 25, 2020

Asana was founded in 2008 by ex-Google and ex-Facebook engineers with the aim to make team collaboration better. Creative teams can easily manage their agile projects through Mavenlink. Clarizen Go is a task management tool for creative, agile teams. 3 Reasons Why You May Want To Look At Asana Alternatives. per user, per month.

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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. & Zein, S.,

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Teamweek

MAY 21, 2020

Trello started in 2011 as a tool for software development teams. The paid plans also have more Agile features including board collections and list limits. Asana was founded in 2008 by ex-Google and Facebook engineers. Trello — Simple, Kanban based project management. It is based on the Kanban productivity system.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

“Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). The Use of Precision of Software Development Effort Estimates to Communicate Uncertainty,” Magne Jørgensen, Software Quality Days.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Monte Carlo and Agile Development . There are a number of Monte Carlo Simulation tools for agile software development when you don't have an Integrated Master Schedule, with planned durations, and ranges of values. My favorite is Agile Monte Carlo. Whitlock, Wiley-Black Well, 2008. [12]

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Teamweek

JANUARY 23, 2020

In their words: Since its start-up in Oslo 2008, the Norwegian Developers Conference (NDC) quickly became one of Europe`s largest conferences for.NET & Agile development. In their words: The Biggest multitrack Tech Conference of the Netherlands for all software developers. NDC London. London, UK.

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