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. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Risk Management.

2003 54

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 2, 2024

Enhanced decision-making, risk mitigation, resource optimization, and stakeholder satisfaction that propel your projects to new heights of success and recognition. Regulatory requirements are not optional; alignment with them should always be a vital part of your risk management. The result?

Influencer 40

Influencer Governance Government Technical Review 40

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.

2003 46

2003 2014 2015 2011 46

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 25, 2024

Project and product management includes a comprehensive approach, defining product requirements, conducting market analysis, managing product life cycles, and prioritizing key features; these steps are necessary for maximizing customer satisfaction, increasing market share, and securing a competitive advantage.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Innovation Development Team Review 2024 52

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 ? This variation can be explained by the fact that initial concepts do not describe the final software system accurate enough.

2012 48

2012 2007 2011 2010 48

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management. Since reducible and irreducible uncertainties create risk, those uncertainties need to be reduced as the project proceeds for the probability of project success to increase. 37–48, 2007.

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2012 2007 2010 2006 29

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister.

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Then there is some analysis. 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.

2007 42

2007 2012 2006 2008 42

MPUG

AUGUST 1, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of John Owen’s session, Simplifying Schedule Risk Analysis Using Microsoft Project Custom Fields, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. John Owen: What’s the problem that we’re trying to solve with Schedule Risk Analysis really?

Risk 40

Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 40

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 28, 2020

A Gantt chart-based online PM software with a first-of-its-kind AI Recommendation Engine and complete Google integration. It is easily compared to software like MS Project, along with all the advantages of being cloud-based. Gantter was launched in 2010 and now has 3+ million users across the globe. Feature Overview.

2010 282

2010 Engineering Infrastructure Risk Management 282

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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. 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”. 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. 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”. 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. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of John Owen’s showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. He has extensive experience of both project management, and software development. I’m going to talk about schedule risk analysis.

Risk 52

Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 52

MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of John Owen’s showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. He has extensive experience of both project management, and software development. I’m going to talk about schedule risk analysis.

Risk 52

Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 52

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Economics is a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. Software engineering economics." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

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. . This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk.

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

Epicflow Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Poor risk management In times of instability and uncertainty, projects are vulnerable to negative risks more than ever, which highlights the need for thorough risk analysis and preparation to respond to them beforehand. How does Epicflow assist when dealing with risks and uncertainty? Murphy’s strike).

Software Review 90

Software Review 2023 2010 Estimate 90

Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Research has linked team cognition 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). Group cohesion and performance: A meta-analysis.

Underperforming Technical Team 162

Underperforming Technical Team 2007 2006 2009 162

Epicflow Blog

MAY 30, 2023

However, we can point out some more or less versatile CFSs: A project manager’s competence; Project team members’ competences; Clearly defined project goals; Senior management support; Effective planning; Proper risk management, etc. [2]. Let’s take a closer look at those that matter most for successful multi-project management.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Aerospace 2010 52

MPUG

JUNE 30, 2019

Microsoft Project is a software application sold by Microsoft that provides project management tools to manage projects. Project Online Essentials : Designed for team members, Essentials allows for task updates, issue and risk updates, timesheet submission, and online collaboration with Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Project 2010.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We did an extensive analysis of various factors that influence waterfall project management. This helped us to simplify how nTask project management software can be used for solving such issues. What Dr. Royce was describing was a flawed model for software development as he argued for a model with multiple iterations or runs.

Software Review 97

Software Review 2019 Development Team Review Technical Review 97

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

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Join us on March 9, 2021 , for a live virtual workshop to create actionable recommendations on how to deal with the outcome of a forensic Product Backlog analysis. From 2010 to 2017, I worked several years in three Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. Which is legitimate.)

Agile 128

Agile Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 128

nTask

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Introduced in 2006, with a major redesign in 2010, the platform serves as a single systematic and flexible solution for all the task management needs of a team. Being able to track the time associated with each and every project is one of the most critical aspects of a project management software. Issues and risks management.

2019 111

2019 2006 2010 Software Review 111

MPUG

JULY 17, 2020

Jim is the president of Critical Tools, the makers of WBS Schedule Pro Software. Jim has been a part of the product management software business since 1985 and for the past 20 plus years with Critical Tools. Jim helped design and develop the software that you’ll see demoed today called WBS Schedule Pro. Kyle: Great.

Software Review 52

Software Review 2014 Planning Technical Review 52

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Project Management Software & Tools. 64% of organizations say they frequently conduct risk management. [6]. Managing small, low-risk projects. Managing medium-size, moderate-risk projects. Project Management Software & Tools. Most-Wanted Features in Project Management Software: 1. Project Failure.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

MPUG

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Also, we are going to see how Microsoft Projects software that is the latest, being 2019, handles dependencies, as well as leads and lags. Satya N Dash: In addition to that, I have seen management practitioners when they create a plan, they make a lot of mistakes, without any software tool, in this case Microsoft Project.

Software Review 52

Software Review Critical Chain Technical Review Risk Management 52

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

Estimate 40

Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2020

. – You know, largest banks in the country, which were also, you know, to your point about our mainframe teams being kind of traditional, waterfall-driven teams, well, the banks as an entity, that’s the only thing they understood, and looked at anything contrary to that to just be an inappropriate way to build software.

Agile 103

Agile Fractional CTO CTO Hire Influencer 103

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

When I first started thinking through this idea, I was actually really thinking about the idea of practices because back in 2010, a little bit earlier than that, Jim Kundiff, the Scrum Alliance, and those guys were really popularizing the CSM certification, PMI was doing the PMI ACP or a lot of us were part of that. So think about scrum.

Governance 62

Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62

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]).

Software Review 34

Software Review Technical Review Estimate Software Developers 34

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.

Estimate 64

Estimate 2006 2005 2013 64

MPUG

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Tad: As Kyle said, I’ve been in the software business for over 25 years, nine of those at Microsoft where I was both customer engaged and a product manager, one of the global product managers for Microsoft Project. This has a lot to do with risk. How do enterprises consider risk? Tad: So this evidence is irrefutable.

Innovation 40

Innovation PMO Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

And so this is where agile kind of fits in and isn’t just necessarily only for software development. And remember, agile is kind of born out of the need for technical project management or in many cases, software development. But it is clearly not limited to just software.

Agile 40

Agile Technical Review Lean Underperforming Technical Team 40

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. As well it provides a sensitivity analysis for all the interacting tasks. Monte Carlo Simulation tools are the heart of this work.

Technical Review 43

Technical Review 2010 Estimate Software Review 43