Rebel’s Guide to PM
AUGUST 29, 2021
Monitoring the project’s finances and cost throughout the project lifecycle is a key responsibility. Project stakeholders are particularly sensitive to cost and potential overruns, especially is the project’s results impact their budget. Here is a list of common project cost risks.
Herding Cats
JULY 8, 2018
One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. 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. What struck me was how disconnected Taleb is from the profession of project management.
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Herding Cats
MAY 10, 2019
Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? 79, 2008. “`,” Stephen Ward and Chris Chapman , International Journal of Project Management , 21, pp.
Herding Cats
MARCH 11, 2017
What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. Turns out in the real world there is no such project. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Accuracy - how close is the estimate to the actual value?
Herding Cats
MAY 11, 2019
Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? Defining Uncertainty in Projects ?
Herding Cats
JULY 8, 2018
One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. 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. What struck me was how disconnected Taleb is from the profession of project management.
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. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian
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