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. the Secretary of Defense shall develop and implement a new acquisition process for information technology systems.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. One starting point is the value at risk.

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Agilemania

MARCH 22, 2021

Project management has become an essential part of our fast-paced world. From small and medium to large scale, every business size depends on project management to successfully deliver their products and service. In recent times, there are multiple project management approaches available all around the world.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Plans don't guarantee creative success - creative efforts operate in an economy - as system where people manage limited resources to maximize return and growth. Loss of control creates risk of failure. Compensate for cost variation by including risk reduction metrics. The Agile Cannon is composed of 5 elements. Forces on WIP .

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Herding Cats

JUNE 25, 2016

Theory of Decision under Uncertainty, Itzhak Gilboa, July 2008. Managerial Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty Ari Riabacke. Software development decision making is a well studied subset of that field. Essential Reading List for Managing Other People's Money. Decision Analysis for the Professional.

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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

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.

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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. A Correction fixed the immediate non-conformance. 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

MARCH 11, 2018

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. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Traditional project management approaches, several of which are based on a strong belief in the cone of uncertainty, advocate stronger project control and greater planning. In that case, the competitor will win nearly every time, and the prize for “good” project management might be losing market share. If not, that's another issue.

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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. Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: .

Technical Review 28

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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. Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: .

Technical Review 28

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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

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 1, 2020

Next, let’s take a look at 10 industry-leading Gantt chart software providers, starting with our very own. Since 2008, ProjectManager.com has worked to transform the project management industry. Since then, more than 20,000 managers have followed suit. Task list management. Time tracking software.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Information Technology is a young industry with several even younger career paths, one of which is Information Technology Service Management (ITSM). 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.

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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. . Software Risk Management , Barry W.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Next, let’s take a look at 10 industry-leading Gantt chart software providers, starting with our very own. Since 2008, ProjectManager.com has worked to transform the project management industry. Since then, more than 20,000 managers have followed suit. Task list management. Time tracking software.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

This concern is also present in academic literature, where authors like Mathieu and his colleagues (2008) and Mortensen and Haas (2018) point out that there is a research gap because studies are often based on stable teams, whereas this is often not the case in the modern workplace. The conflict in this stage can be subtle or overt.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

The number one thing every project manager needs to level up their skills is experience. A good project management book. While there are tons of fantastic resources online for learning how to be a better project manager (such as this blog!) Jump to a section: The best books for mastering the fundamentals of project management.

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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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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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Teamweek

MAY 21, 2020

Trello and Asana are two popular project management tools. Instead, both need to be evaluated based on: the size of your team, your project management workflow, and the tool’s onboarding time and ease of use. Essential features in project management tools. Are there any constraints or risks? Team management.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

The reason for this resource page is the lack of understanding of how to estimate, the urban myths about software estimating, and the fallacies that estimating is not needed, when developing software, in the presence of uncertainty, when spending other peoples money. Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc.

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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. Let’s begin. Ease of use.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). Better Sure than Safe?

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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. . Monte Carlo simulation on projects examines all paths through the network of activities or all possible states of the project for the duration, cost, and risk that create impacts on duration and cost.

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