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. The domain for the Cone can certainly be product development, but it's origins are for Programs, where a budget, period of performance, and needed capabilities are On Contract.

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

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. It's suggested from observations, the Cone of Uncertainty (CoU) is not a valid model of how uncertainty behaves in software development projects. Laird and M.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

the cost the alternative compared to the budget for the Value needed). Keeney, Militarty Operations Research , Volume 13, Number 2, 2008, pp. Only once the values have been defined think about measurability of the bottom ones – often requires defining attributes. Natural attribute measures directly the achievement of a value (e.g.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Software Engineering Economics”. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation, Yourdon Press, 1982. [13] Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management, Auer-bach, 2006. [15]Jorgensen,

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Software Engineering Economics”. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation, Yourdon Press, 1982. [13] Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management, Auer-bach, 2006. [15]Jorgensen,

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Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Software Engineering Economics”. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation, Yourdon Press, 1982. [13] Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management, Auer-bach, 2006. [15]Jorgensen,

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Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

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. Agile Software Development (#ASD). Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).

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Entry

AUGUST 2, 2017

Project managers who firmly grasp the triple constraints of project management have a higher chance of achieving quality outcomes that are within the defined scope and budget of the project plan. Wikipedia, 2008). The post The Triple Constraints of Project Management appeared first on Entry Software. www.entry.com.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

Research shows that for projects, especially software projects Aleatory uncertainty is the predominant source of risk. All making things smaller dos is show that you're late, over budget, and what you're building (Technical Performance Measures) doesn't work faster. Software Risk Management , Barry W. Hassett and Donald G.

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Workzone

AUGUST 4, 2021

This list of alternatives for Asana the project management software will help you identify which project management software you should be using. We’re going to share the top Asana alternative, Workzone, pros and cons of Asana, and 24 other software solutions so you can decide which option is worth researching further.

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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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Teamweek

JUNE 25, 2020

While creative teams need to still deliver on time and within budget, they thrive by keeping an eye on the ‘big picture’ The project management tool you use for your creative team needs to do just that. Asana was founded in 2008 by ex-Google and ex-Facebook engineers with the aim to make team collaboration better.

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Velociteach

AUGUST 14, 2023

Richard draws on a diverse background in software development, engineering, anthropology, design, and political science. His book “Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber” was published in 2019. And then I’m following up on the schedule to make sure that the project’s going to come in on time, on scope, on budget; right?

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Flight software is always an issue where we work, so those ranges are wider even more. Getting the software qualified is about the same variability as getting it certified, so the same range is used. This is a Closed Loop Control Systems for managing the performance of a Software Intensive System of Systems, all developed using Scrum.

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