Epicflow Blog

MAY 20, 2019

The movement aims at increasing productivity in the domain of software development by promoting management agility. The #NoEstimates movement originated in 2012 , when Woody Zuill , an Agile guide and coach, started a Twitter discussion with members of the software development world using the #NoEstimates hashtag.

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2019 Underperforming Technical Team Software Developers Software Development 75

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. Project Driven Organization Framework. Capabilities Based Planning.

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2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

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.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 7, 2020

Richard Reynolds, senior engineer at consultancy firm E&M West, has over 30 years of experience in the construction industry, including leading the multi-disciplinary design team for the Media Center at the London 2012 Olympics. He says, “If it’s a short delay, you’ll likely have the same people on the project team when it resumes.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2012 Retail PMI 156

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. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006.

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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.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

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.

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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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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. And if the competitor is shipping software with greater value, how does the Cone impact that? Thesis, University of Southern California, August 2012. 37-48, 2007. 37-48, 2007.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 27, 2018

Online gaming collaboration can be traced back to the introduction of the personal computer and software developers and came to life in the early 1990s when the Internet was introduced. Resources: Number of participants, software, and systems required, facilities, etc. Time: Length of time of the activity.

Software Review 122

Software Review 2004 2012 PMI 122

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When I started using Scrum as a software developer back in 2007 I noticed that this new ways of working really worked, then I decided to learn more about and I became a Scrum Master in 2012 and in 2015 I started to teach Scrum, overcoming my fear of public speaking.

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2017 2018 2016 SCRUM 173

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.

2007 42

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The groundwork for SAFe was formed in 4 knowledge areas – agile software development, lean product development, systems thinking, and DevOps. Spotify: Spotify came into being in 2012. SAFe endorses alignment, collaboration, delivery among large agile teams.

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Agile Lean Software Review Technical Review 98

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Some years ago — in 2012 — I experienced my first Professional Scrum Master class. Here was a trainer who was obviously not in it for the money, but was sincerely trying to improve the profession of software development. Although I had been teaching and training Scrum since 2012, it was never as a Professional Scrum Trainer.

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SCRUM 2012 2018 Software Review 132

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Ashkenas, “It’s Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement,” HBR blog [link] (2012). . [3] Alleman, "Product & Process Development Kaizen for Software Development, Project, and Program Management, LPPDE, Denver Colorado, April 2008. [5] Agile Conference 2009, IEEE. . [4]

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. What factors lead to software project failure?” All for the want of a nail.

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2014 Aerospace 2011 2013 45

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Some years ago — in 2012 — I experienced my first Professional Scrum Master-class. Here was a trainer who was obviously not in it for the money, but was sincerely trying to improve the profession of software development. Although I had been teaching and training Scrum since 2012, it was never as a Professional Scrum Trainer.

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SCRUM 2012 2018 Software Review 93

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The first paper was a 2012 study on the tensions with remote (off-shoring) teams (Ramesh et al Ambidexterity in Agile Development ISR2012). It confirmed my preconception that regular education struggles to keep up with developments in our field. Even in institutions where they teach (software) development.

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Underperforming Technical Team Agile SCRUM 2012 159

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

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.

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Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

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

Wrike

MAY 23, 2023

As further evidence of Brailsford’s rather successful approach, the British cycling team he led in the 2012 Olympics won eight gold medals, three silver medals, and two bronze medals. But he was wrong — Team Sky won in just three. A year later, in 2013, they succeeded again.

Engineering 36

Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Controlling Software Review 36

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.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Why our brain is not built for software engineering. Nevertheless, the motto of software development is often ‘first solve the problem, then write the code’. Retrieved from [link] on December 17, 2012; Gigerenzer, G. and Heylighen, F. and Vidal, C.

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2002 SCRUM 2007 2003 199

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's start with a clear and concise description of the problem of successfully managing projects in the presence of uncertainty: Accurate software cost and schedule estimations are essential for non-trivial software projects. As a software project progresses, more information about the project is known. The COCOMO 2.0

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2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Edmondson (2012) argues that dynamic teaming is important to share and encourage learning. This is also what inspired Edmondson (2012) in her academic work on “teaming”. They also tend to perform better (Evans & Dion, 2012), are better able to deal with stress and pressure (Salas, Driskell & Hughes, 1996). R., & Dion, K.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

So you want a software engineering job at Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Google/Netflix? It’s every software engineer’s dream to work with one of the top technical teams in the world. So how do you get a software engineering job at one of these companies? Step 1: Are you ready to apply for a top software engineering job?

Software Engineering 155

Software Engineering Technical Review Engineering Software Review 155

Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

The fallacy happens when we conclude from this that punishment works, and rewards don’t (Defulio, 2012). When comparing different approaches to develop software, survival bias can lead someone to conclude that plan-driven approaches work well based on a few success stories they have where they did. How to reduce this bias.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 27, 2018

In 2012, I wrote a blog post entitled “Delivering provably-correct code.” ” In it, I suggested several approaches developers could use to gain high confidence that their code would be suitable for release. They didn’t rely on a study to teach them how to build software. Is a WSDL a formal specification?

Software Review 123

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 2007 123

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

If we look at the Stacey Matrix adapted for software development, a complex domain is where there are more unknown variables that cannot be predicted and there is no definite path to reach the goal. In the movie Avengers (2012), The Mind Stone allows the user to control the minds of others and can control what they do.

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SCRUM Development Team Review 2012 Technical Review 175

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

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.

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Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

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.

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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

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

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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2021 Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 26

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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