Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 28, 2022

This brainstorming element normally falls outside of the traditional project management role, but is more prevalent in software projects, when engineers have a free reign to come up with new ideas and then have to see them through. This review first appeared on the blog in 2009. Section Two looks at skills. Ten stars for Berkun.

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Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 2009 195

Scrum.org

AUGUST 1, 2022

Some find the process of creating them “childish” or “a waste of time”. It has been linked to higher performance and motivation (Mathieu et al, 2000), increased effectiveness (Kearny, Gebert & Voelpel, 2009), and generally explains a substantial amount of the variance (~19%) in the effectiveness of teams (De Church & Mesmer-Magnus, 2010).

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 30, 2018

There have been some recent posts about managing scope, defining needed Features, determining how to release software to stakeholders - in both traditional and agile processes. The primary document produced from the Capabilities Based Planning process is the Concept of Operations.

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Planning 2007 Technical Review 2009 109

International Institute for Learning

JULY 7, 2022

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). Fitzgerald, B (2009). Creativity in agile systems development: a literature review.

Innovation 59

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Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 17, 2020

For every source I have described the same three topics to show what Scrum consisted of at the time (regardless the different terms used), what the ‘definition’ of Scrum was at the time: Roles, responsibilities, accountabilities Controls, deliverables, artifacts Phases, meetings, time-boxes, events.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2020

More seriously, weather forecasts have helped us narrow our decision-making process. When dealing with uncertainty, and the weather holds a lot of uncertainty, forecasts are of value to narrow our decision-making process. I believe we can use this definition in Agile software development. Who couldn’t predict that!

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 15, 2017

A popular toss off aphrase in some agile circles is process reduces agility. 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. VanderLeest GLSEC 2008. "A

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

With very few textbooks on project management available in the marketplace, these guideline documents provided companies with ways to improve their project management processes. The first PMBOK ® Guide presented 5 process groups, 9 knowledge areas, and 37 processes for managing projects.

Aerospace 147

Aerospace Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Governance 147

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Managment Processes. Software for Your Mind: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Creating and Maintaining a Shared Vision. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Increasing the Probability of Success , Dallas MPUG, May 6th, 2009. Flawless Execution.

2003 54

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Digite

JANUARY 7, 2018

Several good books have been written on Kanban and its application to various business processes, especially to Scrum, since David Anderson published his original Kanban “blue book”. If you want to improve or create the flow in your product development process start with this book! Stop Starting, Start Finishing.

Lean 79

Lean Software Review 2010 2014 79

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 5887, 2009. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999. 5, September/October 2011. 3, March 2002.

Risk Management 38

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

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.

Risk Management 35

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

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 ? The program management processes should seek to reduce uncertainty in the variable of the project. Steve McConnell. 37–48, 2007.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The use of estimating in software development project mandates those estimates be updated with actual performance data to have any credibility in the construction of the Estimate to Complete and Estimate at Completion. Software projects are not Macroeconomics systems, they are microeconomics systems. The Fallacy.

2009 40

2009 Estimate Software Developers Software Development 40

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

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. 37-48, 2007.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. Aleatory uncertainty is expressed as a process variability. First, let's establish a principle.

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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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SCRUM Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 337

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Agile Conference 2009, IEEE. . [4] Alleman, "Product & Process Development Kaizen for Software Development, Project, and Program Management, LPPDE, Denver Colorado, April 2008. [5] Ashkenas, “It’s Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement,” HBR blog [link] (2012). . [3]

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 27, 2016

There are two kinds of uncertainty on all projects, no matter the domain, including software development projects. Decision-making is the process of choosing among alternatives. The process of making a decision involves three elements: values, alternatives, and facts (Buede, 2009). [1]. Related articles.

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2009 2015 Influencer Performance Measurement 28

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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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

In 2009 Ken Schwaber left Scrum Alliance to build his own Agile certification, PSM (Professional Scrum Master), at scrum.org. This is supported by an APMG accreditation and certification process. Will teach you to break down features, write user stories, improve team and train processes, and plan and execute Iterations.

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Certification Agile Prince2 PMI 114

EasyProjects

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Have you ever seen a chef send a dish out without tasting it several times at every stage of the process? According to the Project Management Institute, agile processes initially slow a team down because of the learning curve. Scrum is used by software development teams. Disgusting. Well, you kinda deserved that.

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Agile Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 41

Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. These are all focused on developing software, delivering that software to those paying the developers. Why This Missing Concept is Important to Agile Software Development? .

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Software Developers Software Development Agile Software 39

Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

As we will see below, current scientific models for team formation underscore the need for time and frequent interaction to allow teams to develop the tissue that makes them high-performing. Even a single change in team membership can disrupt that process, and consequently, make it harder for teams to become high-performing sooner.

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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. ISO 31000:2009, ISO 17666:2016, and ISO 11231:2010 Risk is Uncertainty that Matters. Now To Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

PP&C lives in the domain of Project Management and Controls, which is a Technical Management Processes of ISO 15288. In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes. The life-cycle processes of a project can be defined by ISO15288 as. The Project Planning Process is where project management is anchored.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Measure that is modeled in the Cone the variable is the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measure. With this paradigm we have logically connected project management processes with Control System processesIf the variances, created by uncertainty going outside the UCL and LCL.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Measure that is modeled in the Cone the variable is the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measure. With this paradigm we have logically connected project management processes with Control System processesIf the variances, created by uncertainty going outside the UCL and LCL.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 29, 2020

Have you ever heard of a T-shaped developer? It’s a common phrase used in software development where the developer has broad experience in their role but is also profoundly skilled in one specific area. It’s a gradual process and enormously challenging for someone in a new industry. Charlie Davidson.

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2009 Prince2 SCRUM Construction 340

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. Again this is simple statistical process control, using feedback to take corrective actions to control future outcomes - feedforward. Resources. [1] Air Force. [4]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

So we first worked together, I guess it was probably back in like late 2009, 2010. Talk to me about some of the challenges that you had taking it straight from a software development perspective. Now, so that type of a process and an approach, building that into your organization, I think is a bit of a science, right?

Technical Review 112

Technical Review Software Review Agile Governance 112

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). Agile Software Development (#ASD). While many of the presentations have similar titles, the content is focused on a specific set of processes and practices, while the principles are the same, since they are Immutable. . Management Processes. Project Performance Management (#PPM).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

This list starts with the earliest posts, beginning in 2009. . Credible Estimating Processes - prediction is difficult, but prediction is the basis of all decision making. This is a Wide Band Delphi process that has been around for . What Software Domain Do You Work In? Five Ways To Rethink Software Projects.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.

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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. 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. The Future of Systems-and Software Development.

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