Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991.

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Software Developers Software Development Estimate 2006 46

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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Planning Agile Software Review Estimate 78

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Agile Project Management. A paradigm of Agile Project Management.

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2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

This is more or less the time you started searching for "scaling agile" "scaling scrum" and exploring your options. 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.

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SCRUM 2008 2013 Software Review 201

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. Every project manager should have a strong understanding of project theories and methodologies, and be able to apply them in his or her work: Agile, .

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Technical Review Certification PMI 2027 98

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. Numerical anchors and their strong effects on software development effort estimates,” Erik Løhrea, and Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint—just to name a few.

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Software Review Technical Review Cadence SCRUM 143

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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

LiquidPlanner

JUNE 1, 2016

We even tried tools like Microsoft Project , but fundamentally ran into the same deal-breaker issue: none of these schedules were up-to-date. We realized that the current generation of tools and methodologies just couldn’t keep pace with the amount of change at the company. Building LiquidPlanner. We left Expedia to fix this problem.

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2006 2008 Software Engineering Engineering 74

Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

This series is not about easy answers or practical tips, but to develop a more complete understanding of what may be going on. Research (Janiszewski & Uy, 2008) even shows that precise offers (e.g. If you like our free content , meetups , podcasts and tools, please consider supporting us. How to reduce this bias. References.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Proofhub

JULY 29, 2021

the popular social media management platform that was founded in 2008, defines their culture as ‘a passionate egoless team having fun building something bigger than itself’.The A project management software that is seamlessly integrated with all Google apps, helps you manage projects, and keep a track of everything?

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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." Boehm, Barry W.

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Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

There’s no doubt that most PM software solutions are based on specially designed algorithms that aim to automate such actions as planning, scheduling, resource allocation, but these mechanisms are not the result of artificial intelligence. The most popular PM methodologies are as follows: Agile (Scrum, Kanban).

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Artificial Inteligence 2020 Technical Review 2019 96

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

Research shows that for projects, especially software projects Aleatory uncertainty is the predominant source of risk. So here are some books, handbooks, and guides that sit on my shelf that are used pretty much all the time on the Software Intensive System of Systems we work on. Software Risk Management , Barry W.

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Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

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. Agile Project Management (#APM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Risk Management (#RM).

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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. This is the motivation for short work intervals found in agile development. . Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Planio

MARCH 7, 2022

It allows you to take big swings while simultaneously making concrete steps towards product-market fit and building valuable and useful software. That’s a long timeframe to think about, especially for Agile teams. The competition for a project management tool like Planio is as much email and Excel as it is other software.

Software Review 78

Software Review 2008 Defining Executing 78

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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Underperforming Technical Team Agile SCRUM Manufacturing 52

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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2014 Aerospace 2011 2013 45

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. The chief critic of the cone has data collected from his projects that develop Products. For product development, like the quote above mentions, there is an unanswered question.

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Workzone

AUGUST 4, 2021

This list of alternatives for Asana the project management software will help you identify which project management software you should be using. We’re going to share the top Asana alternative, Workzone, pros and cons of Asana, and 24 other software solutions so you can decide which option is worth researching further.

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2021 Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 26

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.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2008 Software Developers Software Development 34

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Flight software is always an issue where we work, so those ranges are wider even more. Getting the software qualified is about the same variability as getting it certified, so the same range is used. Monte Carlo Simulation tools are the heart of this work. Aggregate the results in the individual computation into a final result.

Technical Review 43

Technical Review 2010 Estimate Software Review 43

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. Methods are characterized by teams that have established a series of complexity criteria tailored to their environment and use spreadsheets or custom-developed applications. Kiridena, S.

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2016 2014 PMO Software Review 52

Planio

JULY 22, 2020

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

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2020 Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 148

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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Software Review Technical Review 2017 2016 104

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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. 5] Program Managers Tool Kit , 16 th Edition, Defense Acquisition University. [6] Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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 the paradigm of the Cone of Uncertainty - it's a planned development compliance engineering tool, not an after the fact data collection tool. 5] Program Managers Tool Kit , 16 th Edition, Defense Acquisition University. [6] Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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. 5] Program Managers Tool Kit , 16 th Edition, Defense Acquisition University. [6]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 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.

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PMO Construction Development Team Review Executing 52

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.

Software Review 40

Software Review Technical Review Finance Governance 40

MPUG

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

How does Microsoft project software address this two-pass technique? And we’ll see how does Microsoft Project software determines the total float? We’ll see shortly with more examples on that with the help of the tool. How to determine the total float for the activities. Satya Dash: So first a brief interaction.

Software Review 52

Software Review Lean SCRUM PMI 52

Wrike

OCTOBER 5, 2009

in January, 2008. Traditional project management built many successful tools and processes that helped to increase the chances of success in those projects. Traditional project management developed in an industrial economy. Shift toward collaboration and business agility. is and what it is not. What it IS about.

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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. When they talk about the “correctness” of software, they’re talking about two different things. They aren’t thinking about developing a general model for a class of problems.

Software Review 108

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 2007 108

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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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Planning Development Team Review 97

Teamweek

MAY 21, 2020

Trello and Asana are two popular project management tools. Yet, both tools are very different and cater to different needs. 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.

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2020 Planning Software Review 2011 52