Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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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.

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Moira Alexander

APRIL 24, 2017

Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is one of the biggest MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platforms available and offers many project management (PM) courses. Agile Software Development - goes over fundamental agile concepts to enhance your software development skills. Related Video.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

During a downturn, this skill becomes particularly important as every business move is fraught with risks. With tightened budgets and reduced spending power, every dollar spent is scrutinised for its worth. Visionary Product Owners read between the lines of market trends, customer feedback, and economic forecasts.

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Workamajig

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

What is the adoption rate of project management software across organizations? PM software adoption remains low. As per Wellingtone's survey, only 22% of organizations use a PM software. PM software adoption is changing, slowly but surely. 77% of high-performing projects use project management software. Capterra ).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2019

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. There’s a risk of conflict between: The sponsor and users. Around assigning risk ownership to people who don’t believe they are accountable for it. That’s part of the job, though.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Even the smallest firm (including my own company with all of two part-time employees) can use project management software. The introduction of the apprenticeship levy in the UK next year may well have a significant impact on training budgets even in mid-sized firms. Integrating the Learning Legacies.

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Resource Guru

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In fact, it’s nearly impossible to stay within budget if you miss multiple deadlines. This clash between expectations and reality quickly leads to project issues and failure, causing stress for everyone involved and putting you at risk of losing revenue, or even clients. As a project manager, you know time is money.

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Leading Answers

AUGUST 25, 2020

There has been a debate raging since 2012 about the use and value of estimates on agile projects. NoEstimates Gets Started In 2012, Woody Zuill wrote a blog post asking if getting better at estimating was the only way forward. Some software is knowable and can be estimated reliably. So then I felt conflicted.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development.

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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. Laird and M.

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Wrike

AUGUST 22, 2018

The PMO is the keeper of documentation, guidance, and metrics for project execution, ensuring projects are completed on time and on budget. However, PMOs are particularly useful as the number of projects grow in an organization, which increases the risk of failure as resources get stretched and competing priorities arise.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 9, 2019

A few standouts : Back in 2012, Best Buy seemed to be on its deathbed. Collaborative work management software, on the other hand, allows team members and co-workers across departments to engage, connect, and interact in real time, significantly cutting down on email clutter and saving loads of time in the process.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering provides an approach to making the decision about what's in the ConOps and its format based on some Systems Engineering analysis of criteria: Program risks - reducible and irreducible uncertainties that create these risks. IT Risk Management. McComb, Deanna M.

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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. All project work operates in the presence of uncertainty.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes. A second Critical Success Factor is the ability to predict what will happen in the future given the model of the project's activities and risks and the alternative designed as well as emerging designs and external processes. . This is the desired outcomes model.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 1, 2017

Orville and Wilbur were probably not professional Program Planning and Cost analyst, but they knew they to have a credible schedule complete with risk management and risk buy down, margins for that cost and schedule as well as margins for the technical performance of the product. That date was August 14, 1908. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Thesis, University of Southern California, August 2012.

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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.

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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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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Project Management Software & Tools. Organizations that use a methodology: 38% meet budget. VS. Organizations that don’t use a methodology: 31% meet budget. 64% of organizations say they frequently conduct risk management. [6]. 18% — Delivered within budget. Managing small, low-risk projects.

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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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Teamweek

JUNE 25, 2020

While creative teams need to still deliver on time and within budget, they thrive by keeping an eye on the ‘big picture’ The project management tool you use for your creative team needs to do just that. Incredibly, it took almost four years to launch it commercially in 2012. While really powerful, Asana is not for everyone.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. There’s a risk of conflict between: The sponsor and users. Around assigning risk ownership to people who don’t believe they are accountable for it. Concept Phase.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Yes, this is the basis of any closed loop control system from keeping the room temperature at a specific setting, to the speed control on your car, to managing software development projects in the presence of uncertainty. Let me point out an obvious problem - software projects go over budget and are late.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Yes, this is the basis of any closed loop control system from keeping the room temperature for a specific setting, to the speed control on your car, to managing software development projects in the presence of uncertainty, using any software method you choose. So the first thing to do is answer the question.

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Resource Guru

JUNE 23, 2023

Plus, the risk of human error is just far too great. We’re here to help you evaluate and choose the best software that will help enable growth at your agency. To execute the best project management for agencies, switch to purpose-built agency software. Here’s what to look for: 1. Here’s what to look for: 1.

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