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 is Systems Engineering? Capabilities Based Planning.

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2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty.

2003 46

2003 2014 2015 2011 46

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.

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? 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. 255, April 2010. 24, 2010. “A 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. requires making estimates) ? 255, April 2010.

Risk Management 35

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

“The Cone of Uncertainty,” Stephen Gryphon, Phillippe Kruchten, and Steve McConnell, Letters, IEEE Software , 23 (5) 2006, pp 8?10. Shrinking the Cone of Uncertainty with Continuous Assessment for Software Team Dynamics in Design and Development,” Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn,”Ph.D. 37–48, 2007.

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2012 2007 2010 2006 29

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. Some feel that the cone does not provide any value for the work they do and does not match the reducing uncertainty in their estimates. This letter states.

2007 34

2007 2012 2009 2010 34

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Project Management Software & Tools. Engineering. Project Management Software & Tools. 77% of companies use project management software, and 87% of high-performing companies use project management software. [5]. Most-Wanted Features in Project Management Software: 1. Between 2010 and 2020, 15.7

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Estimation is part of project management. . The most important estimates for the project manager are related to time and cost. . Since it is easier to estimate small tasks, these estimates are often calculated and performed as point estimates, for example, a task will take 3 days.

Technical Review 43

Technical Review 2010 Estimate Software Review 43

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For software projects, Scrum can be used. And finally, since all project work operates in the presence of uncertainty, we must make estimates in order to execute the project in a Closed Loop manner. Explaining KPPs, KSAs, MOEs, and MOPs , John's Ho[kins Whiting Schools of Engineering. What is your actual condition? . Resources

2010 39

2010 Governance Government Performance Measurement 39

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's start with a clear and concise description of the problem of successfully managing projects in the presence of uncertainty: Accurate software cost and schedule estimations are essential for non-trivial software projects. As a software project progresses, more information about the project is known.

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

This helped us to simplify how nTask project management software can be used for solving such issues. Its simplicity and ease of implementation has made it the most popular version of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) for software engineering and IT projects. Waterfall is a popular SDLC project management model.

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Software Review 2019 Development Team Review Technical Review 97

Resource Guru

AUGUST 10, 2023

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Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review 2010 Closing 52

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

LiquidPlanner

MAY 29, 2018

Which makes sense—after all, Microsoft Project was the go-to project management software for years. Scheduling: Once all the tasks are assigned estimates based on effort and best/worst case scenarios, the LiquidPlanner scheduling engine rolls up all that information and provides predictive finish dates for the entire project.

Estimate 37

Estimate Technical Review Software Review 2010 37

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 Software Development (#ASD). Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

He has extensive experience of both project management, and software development. Previous positions have included VP of development for Welcom, senior director for product management at Deltek, and manager for computerized project management at Worley engineering. It happens all too often. But unfortunately, that’s not true.

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Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 52

MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

He has extensive experience of both project management, and software development. Previous positions have included VP of development for Welcom, senior director for product management at Deltek, and manager for computerized project management at Worley engineering. It happens all too often. But unfortunately, that’s not true.

Risk 52

Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 52

Wrike

AUGUST 14, 2020

Toyota was looking for a way to improve their engineering and production processes. Anderson is often credited as being the first to implement Kanban in software development in 2005. His book on Kanban , published in 2010, is still one of the most comprehensive resources out there for technology-focused projects.

Software Review 36

Software Review Technical Review 2005 SCRUM 36

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.

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Software Review Technical Review Estimate Software Developers 34

MPUG

AUGUST 1, 2021

Unfortunately, many projects to the detriment of the people executing them, are delivered late and it’s not usually anything to do with estimating or project execution. It’s got nothing to do with poor estimating, poor execution or even risks that occurred or did not occur.

Risk 40

Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 40

MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

If you understand how the engineering Teams are structured, there’s a lot more fluidity between say dynamics and some of the things that are happening there, and the things called common data service. A lot of times I like to have fun, certainly in doing estimating.

Agile 40

Agile Technical Review Software Review Engineering 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.

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Agile Technical Review Lean Underperforming Technical Team 40

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.

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Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62