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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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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. All the major auto manufacturers reported far fewer sales in Q1 and Q2 due to factory shutdowns and a lack of customers. It could already be happening.

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Technical Review Energy Infrastructure Software Review 78

Epicflow Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

The survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit shortly after the global financial crisis of 2008 has revealed that effective project management has helped business organizations to maintain their competitiveness during the recession. In other words, an overworked employee will become a bottleneck.

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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). Then we don’t have those questions anymore.”

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MPUG

MARCH 28, 2021

The legal department gets involved only to work on contracts or to review documents for legal issues. Best Practices : It’s better to send information to too many people than too few, suggests Ron Taylor, founder of the Ron Taylor Group and PMI’s 2008 Leader of the Year. External audiences can be very involved in your project.

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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.,

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Agilemania

MARCH 22, 2021

With traditional plans, you’ll always have the risk of delayed product delivery. It gained popularity post-financial crisis in 2008-09 and is still a new approach for many organizations. Agile project management focuses more on implementing the client’s feedback and reviewing the product periodically.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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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. Acquiring Data Retires Risk.

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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. Acquiring Data Retires Risk.

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2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 28

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

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. Sizing Challenges," Victor Fuster & Taylor Putnam-Majarian, Software and IT-CASR Proceedings , 22-24 August 2017. Olagbemiro, Naval Postgraduate School Dissertation, December 2008.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

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. What factors lead to software project failure?” All for the want of a nail.

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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.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. This is due to many reasons. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. This is due to many reasons. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. This is due to many reasons. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 3, 2021

There are a lot of project management software tools to choose from, and there are a few that truly seem to dominate the space, like Oracle’s Primavera P6. In 2008, Primavera Systems was bought out by Oracle, who then developed the tool into the version that is used today. It claims to work on projects of all sizes.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. The MPUG activity code for claiming that with PMI is on the screen now. How does Microsoft project software address this two-pass technique? Next is backward pass.

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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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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. This effect is stronger for smaller teams than larger teams.

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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. See insights on time management, performance, and risks to the project schedule before they happen. . Why Invest In Planning Intelligence Software?

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Artificial Inteligence Planning Technical Review 2008 158

MPUG

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. The MPUG activity code for claiming the session is on the screen now. The risk, the issues, the action, the schedule? Do they have a risk log? PMO, sorry.

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Planio

MAY 22, 2023

Review your product backlog and rank features 5. 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. Work with stakeholders to define your product vision & strategy 2. single product vs. multiple products) 3.

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Planning Agile Software Review Estimate 78

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2020

According to PMI’s Job Growth and Talent Gap in Project Management 2017-2027 , organizations’ need for project talent has significantly increased since their previous investigation in 2008. Managing uncertainties and constraints, Administering risks, Making project decisions, Analyzing team progress, Reporting [5].

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Technical Review Certification PMI 2027 98

Planio

JULY 22, 2020

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups. 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. Author: Brett Harned.

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2020 Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 148

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. This way, there's no need to review all the work across teams, just the overall flow/bottlenecks and specific stalled items.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

It is a blessing in the sense that Scrum can provide for most organizations a tailored approach to opportunistic, emergent product discovery in complex environments while mitigating the risk that will inevitably manifest itself in strengthened competitiveness by comparison to less agile competitors. Scrum Master Engagement Pattern—Conclusion.

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Development Team Review SCRUM Software Review Technical Review 137

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.

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2020 Planning Software Review 2011 52

Teamweek

JUNE 25, 2020

Asana was founded in 2008 by ex-Google and ex-Facebook engineers with the aim to make team collaboration better. Here’s a review from SoftwareAdvice that sums up the frustration that teams have Asana. This Asana review on G2 , describes how frustrating it is to navigate across Asana’s features. Unintuitive.

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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.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

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. taken from [3]).

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Jez Lister

DECEMBER 17, 2014

This article is one of a series covering COTS – Commercials off the Shelf Lifecycle model methodology, also know as package software. I first started working on COTS software products and their integration with other systems back in the 90’s when working for a large systems integrator. or directly from your blog.

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Software Review Technical Review Finance Governance 40

Resource Guru

JUNE 23, 2023

Between tabs, color codes, and comments, the time spent on admin is valuable time that could be spent (actually) enabling project success. 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. Here’s what to look for: 1.

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Software Review Technical Review Software 2021 52

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

What really works might surprise you – it’s definitely something to work on when you are thinking about positive project risk! In a Forbes magazine story eight years later, reviewing WordPress’s early history, author J. Enjoy… A founder’s core vision, in hindsight, will typically look obvious.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

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. Flight software is always an issue where we work, so those ranges are wider even more. Statistics don't apply to single events.

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Technical Review 2010 Estimate Software Review 43