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

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. 18% — Delivered within budget. 75% of highly agile organizations met their goals/business intent, 65% finished on time, and 67% finished within budget.

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

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Planning Development Team Review 97

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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Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Estimate Software Developers 40

Herding Cats

JANUARY 1, 2017

Here's what that looks like for the planned completion of Work Package #3 on March 12th, 2012. One of the roles of PP&C is the develop models for the cost and schedule of the project. While these charts are notional in nature, here's a real one for dependencies of a large software-intensive system of systems for a flight vehicle.

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2012 Controlling Software Developers Software Development 39

Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Can All This Formality Have Any Use in Modern Software Development? The notion that agile development is a free-for-all development of what ever the customer wants to produce next, with the customer identifying the next important thing to develop works just fine for de minimus projects. McComb, Deanna M.

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2014 2013 2012 Engineering 38

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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Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Estimate Development Team Review 28

Workzone

AUGUST 4, 2021

This list of alternatives for Asana the project management software will help you identify which project management software you should be using. We’re going to share the top Asana alternative, Workzone, pros and cons of Asana, and 24 other software solutions so you can decide which option is worth researching further.

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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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2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

"Modeling the Management of Systems Engineering Projects," Daniel Spencer and Shaun Wilson, Aerospace Concepts, DTSO-GD-0734, Proceedings of the 2012 Model-Based Systems Engineering Symposium , 27-28 November 2012. Data Mining | DMIN'17.

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Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

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. Shrinking The Cone Of Uncertainty With Continuous Assessment For Software Team Dynamics In Design And Development,” Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn,” Ph.D.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

BeeWits

JULY 3, 2018

Wrike is a project management software that enables you to collaborate with your team efficiently and effectively. As a company, Wrike is the provider of a cloud-based project management and collaboration software, based in Silicon Valley, the San Francisco Bay Area. Let’s get started. What is Wrike? Start a reporting trial now.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Budget Defining 29