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

OCTOBER 5, 2018

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 ? A Probabilistic Method for Predicting Software Code Growth," Michael Ross, Journal of Cost Analysis and Parametrics 4:127-147, 2011. "10

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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. What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects? All for the want of a nail.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

“Quantifying Uncertainty in Early Lifecycle Cost Estimation (QUELCE),” Robert Ferguson, Dennis Goldenson, James McCurley, Robert Stoddard, David Zubrow, and Debra Anderson, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-2011-TR-026 ESC-TR-2011-026. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E.

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JANUARY 7, 2018

hours, Published February 2nd, 2011 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform). hours Published January 12, 2009, by Modus Cooperandi Press). A comprehensive guide to Scrumban for applying kanban and pull systems in software development. Personal Kanban: Mapping Work – Navigating Life. By Jim Benson. By Corey Ladas.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Pink, Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (2011). . [2] Agile Conference 2009, IEEE. . [4] Alleman, "Product & Process Development Kaizen for Software Development, Project, and Program Management, LPPDE, Denver Colorado, April 2008. [5]

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. What Is the Scrum Methodology? Scrum Values.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 20, 2018

But in the software development world, the domains of IT, there are two other colors of money. There are two types of software that are developed for a business: 1) internal-use software, and 2) software developed to be sold, leased or marketed (“software to be sold”). CAPEX and OPEX.

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EasyProjects

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For example, Microsoft, which began with one team in 2008, several teams in 2009, some 25 teams in 2010 in the Visual Studio group, then several hundred teams in the Developer Division in 2011, and then a commitment to take Agile across the whole organization around 2014. Scrum is used by software development teams.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Bushe and Chu (2011) identify seven situations that drive the use of fluid teaming in those environments: High turnover among employees, leading to changes in teams. Tuckman’s model remains one of the simplest and easiest to explain models for team development to this day. The need for fluid teams. Rapid downsizing or upsizing (e.g.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. 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

OCTOBER 16, 2018

"Applicable of Model-Based Systems Engineering Methods to Development of Combat System Architectures," John M.Greenn, 6 th Annual Acquisition Research Symposium of the Naval Post Graduate School: Volume 1: Defense Acquisition in Transition, May 13-14, 2009. Data Mining | DMIN'17.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

Probabilistic Risk Analysis: Foundations and Methods , Tim Bedford and Roger Cooke, Cambridge University Press, 2009. Software Risk Management , Barry W. Strategic Project Risk Appraisal and Management , Elaine Harris, Gower, 2009. Failure of Risk Management: Why It’s Broken and How to Fix It, Douglas Hubbard, 2009.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Software Development (#ASD). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams. Deliverables Based Planning: Providing Actional Information to the Program Manager - 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium , 2009. Dallas MPUG , May 6th, 2009.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

“Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). The Use of Precision of Software Development Effort Estimates to Communicate Uncertainty,” Magne Jørgensen, Software Quality Days.

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