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. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate.

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2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

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 Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

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

EasyProjects

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Agile is most popular in the software industry, but it has found homes in the information technology, engineering, product development, and marketing industries to name a few. How effective is Agile? In the next section, we’ll explore how to take the next steps and put agile into action. How to be Agile.

Agile 41

Agile Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 41

Scrum.org

JUNE 5, 2019

Agile software development started with developers. Agile software development was started by developers. one that cares about their users and delivers high-quality software frequently?—?can As a passionate developer, this strong focus on “process people” hurts my heart. We worked with .NET

SCRUM 142

SCRUM 2002 2003 2001 142

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. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. Nord, CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , May/June 2013.

2003 46

2003 2014 2015 2011 46

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

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When we hear of the difficulties of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty, especially about software features and capabilities, there are straightforward ways to solve this problem. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. A Cardinal number says how many of something there is. References .

Technical Review 47

Technical Review 2010 2014 Software Developers 47

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 25, 2024

Discover the pivotal role of product management considerations in projects and learn how to seamlessly integrate these principles to ensure your projects are completed efficiently and are marketable. How can product and project management work together to produce optimal results? 2020, May). link] Vereckey, B. 2021, December).

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Innovation Development Team Review 2024 52

ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 15, 2021

Anderson was the first person to implement this kanban approach to project management to their IT, Software Development, and knowledge work in 2004. David even built on the methodology to define the kanban method and released a book in 2010 called “Kanban: Successfully Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business”.

Software Review 81

Software Review Technical Review 2004 SCRUM 81

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? Learn More!

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SCRUM Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 332

Wrike

MAY 23, 2023

I joined the team as a QAA engineer in 2010, the first employee in this role. Together, we have developed a unique quality control system for Wrike, our lovely project management platform, allowing us to deploy product code to production more quickly and without bugs. Hello, everyone! I’m Alexander, and I’m a QAA manager at Wrike.

Engineering 36

Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Controlling Software Review 36

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The Non-Existent Software Crisis: Debunking the Standish Report. The Standish report: does it really describe a software crisis?" Laurens Eveleens and Chris Verhoef, IEEE Software , vol. 1, Jan-Feb 2010, pages 30-36. Forgetting even more that "agile" is a bottom-up software development solution.

2006 28

2006 2010 Estimate Agile 28

Wrike

AUGUST 14, 2020

Then we’ll discuss the benefits of the Kanban methodology, the types of projects it’s best suited for, how to successfully implement it, and what tools can help you succeed. . Think of Agile as being what you want to achieve and Kanban being one recipe for how to achieve it. . How to introduce Kanban style project management.

Software Review 36

Software Review Technical Review 2005 SCRUM 36

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

And in that we grew the company where originally, we did a mixture, as you know, between transformation and building custom software solutions. Over time, we grew to focus more, mainly on customer soft, custom software solutions, and eventually Accenture purchased us. So— – We reconnected, yeah. – Interesting.

Technical Review 112

Technical Review Software Review Agile Governance 112

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

We cannot escape these two uncertainties - reducible and irreducible - and must learn how to manage in the presence of these uncertainties. As a software project progresses, more information about the project is known. Many of the programs we work are Software Intensive System of Systems. For example for a recent paper abstract.

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2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

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.

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Workzone

APRIL 30, 2020

In 2010 daPulse, created by Wix.com , joined the vast array of project management tools on the market, and in 2017, daPulse went through a transformation to become Monday.com. Designed to come across as colorful and friendly, Monday aims to help you kick your case of the Monday blues through the use of its software.

2020 38

2020 Software Review Technical Review Software 38

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Here's an example from a Galorath presentation , using the framework of the Cone of Uncertainty, and the actual project cones of how to put this all together. ASE’10, September 20–24, 2010, Antwerp, Belgium. . [8] Software Engineering Economics”. Software Eng.,

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

This helped us to simplify how nTask project management software can be used for solving such issues. This write-up details how you can use nTask to get by with maximum productivity concerning all your waterfall oriented business models. In his presentation he described the use of such phases in software engineering.

Software Review 97

Software Review 2019 Development Team Review Technical Review 97

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Here's an example from a Galorath presentation , using the framework of the Cone of Uncertainty, and the actual project cones of how to put this all together. ASE’10, September 20–24, 2010, Antwerp, Belgium. . [8] Software Engineering Economics”. Software Eng.,

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

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). It takes time to develop teams.

Underperforming Technical Team 180

Underperforming Technical Team 2007 2006 2009 180

MPUG

JANUARY 4, 2021

For at least twenty years and counting, the world around us has become more and more software driven, and, as a result, more digital. Electric vehicles are about 50% software, in terms of value, whereas fossil fuel cars are mostly hardware. Banks have essentially been software developing organizations for a long time.

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Artificial Inteligence Critical Chain Underperforming Technical Team Agile 122

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

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

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. Chakraborty and K.

Estimate 40

Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Digite

MARCH 12, 2018

These may seem like three distinct questions, but are, in my mind one: how to structure the Kanban board – around people, or around tasks? In my over 25+ years in the software industry, this has been an all too familiar situation! I have often wondered – doesn’t speak too well of us as software professionals!

Development Team Review 154

Development Team Review Software Review Cadence Technical Review 154

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In software development, those managing the project have some understanding the market forces (from their marketing departments), the technology (from their engineering department), and how to manage in the presence of Aleatory and Epistemic risk (the managers running a successful firm). Software projects are non-ergodic.

Software Review 34

Software Review Technical Review Estimate Software Developers 34

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

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: So, how to build a schedule, this is our first part. As early as 2009, 2010, nearly 11 years before I was working as a PMO. Development completes, testing completes.

Software Review 52

Software Review Critical Chain Technical Review Risk Management 52

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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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. We’re very happy to welcome back John Owen today.

Risk 52

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. We’re very happy to welcome back John Owen today.

Risk 52

Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 52

MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

But I’m sure Gardener may have a few of those out there, but it talks about beware of one size fits all in the PPM software systems, and many cases it’ll talk about when you’re beginning to structure what is going on, don’t make your accounting system become your project management system. Is there a baseline on that?

Agile 40

Agile Technical Review Software Review Engineering 40

MPUG

MAY 24, 2020

He is also a trainer with more than 10 years of experience teaching users how to use project management tools in a more productive way. I’ve been working on creating blog posts and videos and giving speeches since 2010. Kyle: So with that said, I’d like to welcome you back, Raphael. And I say, “Hmm, that’s nice.

Software Review 40

Software Review Artificial Inteligence Software Developers Software Development 40

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. This is a Closed Loop Control Systems for managing the performance of a Software Intensive System of Systems, all developed using Scrum.

Technical Review 43

Technical Review 2010 Estimate Software Review 43