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

MARCH 25, 2024

The product manager is operationally focused on functions such as market research, product development, and ensuring products meet customer needs and company goals. Challenges include solving product failures, meeting tight deadlines, and managing cross-departmental communication.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Innovation Development Team Review 2024 52

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

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 Over time, we extended and improved our tooling to continuously integrate, test and deploy our software. We worked with .NET

SCRUM 140

SCRUM 2002 2003 2001 140

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

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

The Squad Report

JULY 18, 2018

A KPMG survey of 100 businesses reported 70% of organizations faced at least one project failure in the year 2010 alone. Smart management tools such as Jira and nTask, provide inbuilt tools to manage projects, timesheets, meetings, and multiple workspaces. Same can be done for work plan templates, risk templates, and budget templates.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review 2017 Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 40

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

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”. Who Uses Kanban?

Software Review 81

Software Review Technical Review 2004 SCRUM 81

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

customer satisfaction prioritized over arbitrarily meeting a deadline. 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. In all software development businesses, showing up late and over budget has a direct impact on the bottom line.

2007 42

2007 2012 2006 2008 42

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 a simple project management framework that facilitates team collaboration on complex product and software development projects.

SCRUM 338

SCRUM Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 338

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

Teamweek

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This is generally because they are superseded by new products that meet consumer needs better. Although the growth phase represents progress, it still has risks for the newly launched product. Today, word processing software has rendered these devices obsolete. Think about how CD walkmen gave way to MP3 players.

Software Review 40

Software Review Manufacturing Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 40

nTask

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Obviously, in this fast-paced market, you are never going to perform all of these different processes by hand, and you need an incredibly effective project management software that takes care of these processes and activities for you and your team members. Manage tasks, issues, projects, meetings and risk, all in one place.

Technical Review 179

Technical Review Software Review 2021 Software 179

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." Macroeconomics is not. .

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Project Management Hacks

AUGUST 4, 2016

Through many discussions with my husband – who works in software development – I discovered an interest in the technology field. It was a growth experience for me because it involved coming together with the customer to identify creative solutions to meet their needs. Editor’s Note: Rita Mulcahy passed away in 2010.

2013 28

2013 2003 Technical Review 2010 28

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. To meet the increased demand, companies will have to hire extra people or overload the existing employees.

Software Review 90

Software Review 2023 2010 Estimate 90

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

nTask

MARCH 31, 2021

Freedcamp is a free project management software launched in 2010. The software offers a multitude of features at an inexpensive price. One of the best-selling points of the software is that unlike other options available in the market, Freedcamp is available for free for an unlimited number of users, files , and projects.

2021 78

2021 Software Review 2010 Risk Management 78

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.

2010 100

2010 2013 2016 2019 100

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

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. Meeting management. Timesheets.

2019 111

2019 2006 2010 Software Review 111

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Project Management Software & Tools. Organizations that use a methodology: 38% meet budget. 71% meet scope. 68% meet quality standards. 60% meet expected benefits. [4]. VS. Organizations that don’t use a methodology: 31% meet budget. 61% meet scope. 60% meet quality standards.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

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

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

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

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. How is it going to work?

Governance 62

Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62

Runrun.it

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The concept originated from software development companies, who found the traditional method of project and workflow management was stifling in many situations. Needless to say, agile management and the agile squad have met with massive success not only in the software development space, but also in companies in different other industries.

Agile 20

Agile Software Review Leadership Technical Review 20

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

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

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

OCTOBER 16, 2019

So somebody tells me what they’re looking for, and I’m thinking how can I deliver this without actually meeting the requirement? And the focus of where the effort is with the intent to have these things meet in the middle. Tim Runcie: Legacy Project is powerful. That is great.

Agile 40

Agile Technical Review Software Review Engineering 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. Flight software is always an issue where we work, so those ranges are wider even more. Statistics don't apply to single events.

Technical Review 43

Technical Review 2010 Estimate Software Review 43