Leading Answers

AUGUST 29, 2020

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. With all the planning, estimation, risk management, and earned value tracking, there was a fair amount of math and admin involved.

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Technical Review Energy Infrastructure Software Review 78

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 15, 2017

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. Here's a sampling of background on how agile software development processes are used in a domain where life is at stake.

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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. Kiridena, S. & Sense, A.,

2016 52

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Herding Cats

JUNE 25, 2016

There's another rash of Twitter posters supporting the conjecture that decisions can be made about how to spend other people's money without estimating the impact and outcome of that decision. Theory of Decision under Uncertainty, Itzhak Gilboa, July 2008. Managerial Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty Ari Riabacke.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Of course, all three of these are operating in the presence of uncertainty and therefore require estimates to be made. Estimates of the aleatory and epistemic uncertainties that create risk to the delivered Value need to be handled. Keeney, Militarty Operations Research , Volume 13, Number 2, 2008, pp.

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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. Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. This letter states.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. 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. This usually results in a project's actual costs far outrunning the optimistic estimates and creating a large overrun.

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Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. The No Estimates advocates have a similar set of behaviors.). Acquiring Data Retires Risk.

2002 34

2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 34

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

The paper on the Cone of Uncertainty is used by many in the No Estimates community as an example of why estimates are of little use. In this paper, there is data that does not follow the Cone of Uncertainty, in that the uncertainty of the estimates does not reduce as the project proceeds. Then there is some analysis.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. The No Estimates advocates have a similar set of behaviors.). Acquiring Data Retires Risk.

2002 28

2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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). This is done by active risk management, through probabalistic decision-making.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Teamweek

MAY 21, 2020

But before that let’s understand what features you should look for before signing up for a project management software. Wouldn’t you rather focus on shipping software, delivering designs, introducing new product features, or launching marketing campaigns? Are there any constraints or risks? Project planning.

2020 52

2020 Planning Software Review 2011 52

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

To prevail in today’s game of an accelerated innovation-based competition—software is eating the world—, every organization needs to acquire a holistic understanding of an agile product creation process: A vision leads to a strategy that (probably) results in a portfolio of products (and services).

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. 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. Software engineering economics." Macroeconomics is not. .

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The technology provides insights into when a project is at risk and what resources or tasks represent impediments to delivering according to plan. Estimate your work more effectively through best-case, worst-case task estimations. In 2008 LiquidPlanner introduced the magic of predictive scheduling to planners everywhere.

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Artificial Inteligence Planning Technical Review 2008 158

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. . This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk.

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Planio

MAY 22, 2023

Estimate the work and plan the release dates 6. Release too often, and you risk overwhelming your users. This includes software testing, the creation of release notes, and any training or guidance material for users. Consider your organization’s release capability (i.e., single product vs. multiple products) 3.

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Planning Agile Software Review Estimate 78

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?

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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. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Nexus is Scrum.org's framework for scaled product/software delivery. 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. In this way, Flow and Kanban help minimize risk and maximize value both at the Scrum Team level as well at scale at the Nexus.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World. 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. Published date: 2008 (revised edition). Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.

2020 148

2020 Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 148

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.

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Software Review Technical Review Estimate Software Developers 34

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. There are two fundamental assumptions for Little's Law to work in the software development domain". Kanban and Software Development. This is the service time.

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Resource Guru

JUNE 23, 2023

Plus, the risk of human error is just far too great. We’re here to help you evaluate and choose the best software that will help enable growth at your agency. To execute the best project management for agencies, switch to purpose-built agency software. Here’s what to look for: 1. Here’s what to look for: 1.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Estimation is part of project management. . The most important estimates for the project manager are related to time and cost. . Since it is easier to estimate small tasks, these estimates are often calculated and performed as point estimates, for example, a task will take 3 days.

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