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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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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PM Times

APRIL 7, 2021

Most companies now seek project managers who follow the PMO processes like Waterfall or Agile and many C-Level executives support the PMO process. The field of Project Complexity is wide-open and not well defined. One such method was successfully developed at Intel (McBride, M. Kiridena, S. & Sense, A., & Sense, A.,

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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. First, the Cone of Uncertainty is a Principle used to define the needed reduction in the variances of estimates on Programs. Thesis, University of Southern California, August 2012.

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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 UCL and LCL are defined BEFORE the project starts. The efforts that produce these improvements must be defined and managed.

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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 UCL and LCL are defined BEFORE the project starts. The efforts that produce these improvements must be defined and managed.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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. Is it defined?

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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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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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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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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

APRIL 16, 2019

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). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Risk Management (#RM).

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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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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

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. Further, with the development of AI, it will use this data to support the established culture and follow your company’s principles. . Make a project issues log. The Place of Hard Skills in PM.

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Planio

MARCH 7, 2022

In this post, we’ll run you through a simple exercise for defining your product strategy and then show you how to translate it into actionable tasks, goals, and milestones. That’s a long timeframe to think about, especially for Agile teams. This means defining your: Ideal customer: Who do you want to use your product?

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

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. Key lessons inside: Jeff Sutherland is one of the masters of Agile project management.

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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. Ease of use.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 20, 2017

The System is a general concept that defines the boundary for all the work activities that transform Inputs into Outputs. 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".

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Jez Lister

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In 2008 I started putting together an outline COTS methodology. Many organisations have stated a preference for the COTS or ‘Buy’ approach, as opposed to other alternatives such as custom development. A staggering amount of bespoke development fails to deliver what the users want.

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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

It is the repeated random sampling model of the input variables over many simulation runs that defines Monte Carlo simulation. Monte Carlo Simulation has four steps, no matter the domain or the problem: Define the distribution of possible inputs for each input random variable. Monte Carlo Simulation tools are the heart of this work.

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