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.

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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. Let technology take care of the administrative glut, so you can spare your time and effort on more critical aspects of the project. Same can be done for work plan templates, risk templates, and budget templates.

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Technical Review 2017 Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 40

Teamweek

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

High costs due to marketing , consumer testing, advertising, distribution, and other awareness-spreading campaigns, especially if the sector is competitive. This could be in the form of free samples, discount codes, rebates, or lower, ‘introductory’ pricing. Customers must be enticed to try the product. Stage Two: Growth.

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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.

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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). This is due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

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). This is due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

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). This is due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

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Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

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.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 30, 2023

Let’s consider an example: when a person undergoes medical treatment, the success of the endeavor will depend on the doctor’s expertise, the quality of medication, and the patient’s diligence in following the doctor’s recommendations. Technical competencies refer to the technical aspects of the project deliverable.

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Technical Review Software Review Aerospace 2010 52

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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. Therefore, the first question any aspiring agile startup should answer for itself is simple: is it a sales-driven, product-driven, or tech-driven enterprise? Participation is free.).

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 9, 2018

This is about technical competence, at the least, and technical excellence if you want to really succeed. By now, I am sure many readers will be familiar with Tim Lister’s wise comment that: “ Risk management is how adults manage projects.”. So, get into the habit of thinking in terms of risk. Review your experiences.

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Governance Government Technical Review 2010 416

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. For further insight on Leigh’s entry into project management, read her blog post: How I Made the Move to IT Project Management With No Technical Experience.

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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). Bradley et. Or if these processes can be fast-tracked.

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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. .

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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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MPUG

JULY 17, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. This session is eligible for one PMI PEU in the technical category. Jim is the president of Critical Tools, the makers of WBS Schedule Pro Software. Kyle: Great.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Project Management Software & Tools. 64% of organizations say they frequently conduct risk management. [6]. Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Managing small, low-risk projects. Managing medium-size, moderate-risk projects.

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2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

MPUG

JULY 1, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. PMI PDUs in the technical category and the MPUG activity code for claiming the session was on the screen now. My name is Kyle and I’ll be the moderator today.

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Risk Management Risk 2016 Underperforming Technical Team 52

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.

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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. Kyle: Hello, everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, presented by Barbecana.

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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. Kyle: Hello, everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, presented by Barbecana.

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Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 52

MPUG

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Today’s session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the Technical category, and the MPUG Activity Code for claiming is on the screen now.

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Software Review Critical Chain Technical Review Risk Management 52

MPUG

APRIL 16, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Carl Pritchard’s session, Those darn Risk Register boxes! You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. I want to welcome you because I’m the risk guy.

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Risk PMI Risk Management 2011 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

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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. And today’s session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the technical category, and the code for claim that is on the screen now, that’s mpugwebnlearn091819.

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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

MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Today’s session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the technical category and the code for claiming today’s session is on the screen now.

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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

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.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 15, 2019

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Today’s session is eligible for 3/4 of a PMI PDU in the strategic category, and the code to claim that is on the screen now. I do enjoy speaking.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 29, 2018

Which makes sense—after all, Microsoft Project was the go-to project management software for years. Being able to manage uncertainty effectively is the difference between leading a hair-on-fire reactive project and one where you can foresee incoming risk and act responsively. . Which means, the schedule has those risks built in.

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Estimate Technical Review Software Review 2010 37

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.

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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. The business as usual, but with some technical processes get a bit wider. Monte Carlo Simulation tools are the heart of this work.

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Technical Review 2010 Estimate Software Review 43

MPUG

MAY 24, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Today’s session is 45 minutes long and eligible for three quarters of a PMI PDU in the technical category. My name is Kyle, and I’ll be the moderator today.

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