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. 255, April 2010. 920, November 2004. Kwak and J.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L. 12, 2008. “A

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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. Integrating Agile with EVM , EVM World, 2013. Risk Management.

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Teamweek

JUNE 17, 2020

” LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman talked about his agile, project-based hiring approach in a 2013 Harvard Business Review article , explaining that he hires employees on a four-year “tour of duty,” with a check in after two years. The terminology is borrowed from software developers.

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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. The chief critic of the cone has data collected from his projects that develop Products. From his article in an IEEE magazine often quoted by No Estimates advocates. .

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

In this article, Andrea explains the Kanban method in detail starting from its origin to its principles and its application. When applied to software development and marketing, a Kanban implementation doesn’t typically include physical signal cards that cause another worker to begin work.

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Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 110

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

It's suggested from observations, the Cone of Uncertainty (CoU) is not a valid model of how uncertainty behaves in software development projects. But a more important idea is missing in the article. In all software development businesses, showing up late and over budget has a direct impact on the bottom line. .

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Wrike

MAY 23, 2023

The importance of measuring for improvement The saying “If it cannot be measured, it cannot be improved” accurately describes the premise of this article, and we abide by it on our QAA team. A year later, in 2013, they succeeded again. You can discover how this tool works in this article , with more detail of what’s under its hood.

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Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Controlling Software Review 36

LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Hosted by Peter Taylor, this podcast began in 2013 after he published his best-selling book by the same name. Their website is chock full of helpful information, including articles, white papers, online courses, and webinars. If you work in the software and product development space, you should bookmark this blog.

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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. Related articles.

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Project Management Hacks

AUGUST 4, 2016

In today’s article, you will hear directly from Leigh Espy about her journey into project management success at FedEx. In 2013 , the company delivered 1.5 Through many discussions with my husband – who works in software development – I discovered an interest in the technology field. FedEx Profile. Established in 1971.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Orange dots are the actual weights from a variety of sources - a Design Model (3D Catia CAD system), a detailed design model, a bench scale model that can be measured, a non-flying prototype, and then the 1st Flight Article). 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] Software Eng.,

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Orange dots are the actual weights from a variety of sources - a Design Model (3D Catia CAD system), a detailed design model, a bench scale model that can be measured, a non-flying prototype, and then the 1st Flight Article). 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] Software Eng.,

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Orange dots are the actual weights from a variety of sources - a Design Model (3D Catia CAD system), a detailed design model, a bench scale model that can be measured, a non-flying prototype, and then the 1 st Flight Article). 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] Software Eng.,

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

MPUG

AUGUST 25, 2019

To implement this new functionality, the software development team for Microsoft Project 2010 created two new assignment fields in the software: the Assignment Units field and the Peak field. When you see this confusing behavior in any of the last four versions of the software, keep in mind that what you are seeing is not a bug.

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MPUG

APRIL 29, 2020

This webinar is an update of Oliver’s MPUG presentation and schedule template provided on October 2013. Our source material is a tool developed in the nineties by PricewaterhouseCoopers while they had a software development contract business. Kyle: We’ll go ahead and get started.

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Estimate Software Review Risk Management Risk 52

International Institute for Learning

JULY 28, 2022

In this article, I want to explain the relationship between product management and project management, why I think PRINCE2 is the best project management platform to use when you are dealing with managing multiple Scrum teams , and the reason why PRINCE2 is not used a lot, at least not yet , in the US. By Peter Krischel.

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MPUG

JUNE 20, 2022

As I explained previously in this series of articles , once you have all dependencies, the Most?Critical In this fourth article, we will venture into workload modeling and discuss resource-constrained scheduling. Most projects are logic-constrained projects (or, if I might suggest, wrongfully treated as such). A schedule is resource?constrained

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Need up-to-date facts and figures for a project management report, article, or infographic? The number of firms with a PPM process in place grew from 64% in 2003 to 71% in 2013. [13]. Check out our collection of articles, free downloadable resources, and interviews with leading project managers for more tips and advice.

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2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 20, 2017

For software development systems like Kanban, which is production line-centric, Litle's Law tells us. λ = average production rate of complete software components. λ = average production rate of complete software components. There are two fundamental assumptions for Little's Law to work in the software development domain".

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Workzone

AUGUST 4, 2021

So if you’re not sure it’s the right fit for your team, then this article will help you find the right Asana competitors. 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. Pricing: Free – $20.83/user/month.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The presentation " Quantifying the Impact of Agile Practices ," Larry MacCherone at the RallyOn 2013 Conference, presents some results on estimating impacts. The Software Development Performance Index (SDPI) scale on the left ranges - by eyeball measurement - from 46 to 55. Related articles. Carl Sagan's BS Detector.

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Estimate Agile 2013 Software Developers 28

MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

I’ve got some articles, in fact, I just wrote one last week for MPUG, if you haven’t seen it, talks about how agile is being used at Microsoft to eliminate bureaucracy. And so this is where agile kind of fits in and isn’t just necessarily only for software development.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.

Estimate 40

Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Teamweek

JUNE 25, 2020

In this article, you’ll learn about 30 alternatives to Asana that are easy to use and help creative teams collaborate better. This article also covers: Features to look for in a project management tool for creative teams And, reasons why you may want to look at Asana alternatives. Let’s begin. Ease of use. Today it’s even worse.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

And now, and in 2013 and up versions of Microsoft Project, you actually have a reporting module included within the Microsoft Project tool. And to be honest, I haven’t used it since 2013. However, all the reports except for the Agile reports, are also part of the 2013, 2016, and 2019 versions of Microsoft Project.

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Workzone

MARCH 12, 2019

The program began in 2013 as a humble invoicing app but since then it has been stuffed full of project management features like collaborative boards, file sharing, and time management. Pivotal Tracker is designed for managing software development projects. Pricing: $7-$55/user/month. But Nutcache are trying to do just that.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

“Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). The Use of Precision of Software Development Effort Estimates to Communicate Uncertainty,” Magne Jørgensen, Software Quality Days. “The

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Herding Cats

JUNE 21, 2016

Here's another trail being ridden by our son at Nationals in 2013. The notion of Control is missed used in software development projects. Related articles. When riding a single track like this one behind our neighborhood, I came to an understand of the tradeoffs between stability and control. Misused and misunderstood.

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Controlling Technical Review Estimate 2013 42

International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Academic literature and the web are full of interesting articles giving reasonable and shareable advice to inspire the leaders. Beedle, “Agile Software Development with Scrum”, Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 2002. Rich Karlgaard, “Team Management: Think Small and Agile”, forbes.com, Nov 13, 2013. Schwaber, K.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 20, 2018

In an article in Forbes , Steffan Surdek offers three key characteristics (paraphrased here): has a certain level of decision-making authority. ” The purpose of that article is to discuss misconceptions about self-organizing teams, and yet it begins with a rather shaky definition of the term. Let’s keep looking.

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