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. Capabilities Based Planning.

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2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Teamweek

MARCH 8, 2024

On the other hand, Toggl Track is a time management software that values its automated time tracking toolset as much as its manual options. Lets you export billable time into dedicated billing and invoicing software like Xero and Zoho Books. AI-powered time tracking software.”?‍? Time tracking software for any workflow.” ?

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2024 Software Review Technical Review Monitoring 59

Teamweek

MARCH 5, 2024

On the other hand, Toggl Track is a time management software that values its automated time tracking toolset as much as its manual options. Lets you export billable time into dedicated billing and invoicing software like Xero and Zoho Books. AI-powered time tracking software.”?‍? Time tracking software for any workflow.” ?

2024 59

2024 Software Review Technical Review Monitoring 59

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? 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. Dorofee, et.

Risk Management 38

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

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. Some feel that the cone does not provide any value for the work they do and does not match the reducing uncertainty in their estimates. This letter states.

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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. requires making estimates) ? reducible and irreducible ?

Risk Management 35

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Of course, all three of these are operating in the presence of uncertainty and therefore require estimates to be made. Estimates of the aleatory and epistemic uncertainties that create risk to the delivered Value need to be handled. 6] "Lecture Note for Introduction to Decision Theory," Itzhak Gilboa, March 6, 2013, [link]. [7]

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2009 Artificial Inteligence 2013 2005 34

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

The paper on the Cone of Uncertainty is used by many in the No Estimates community as an example of why estimates are of little use. In this paper, there is data that does not follow the Cone of Uncertainty, in that the uncertainty of the estimates does not reduce as the project proceeds. Then there is some analysis.

2007 42

2007 2012 2006 2008 42

PM Times

APRIL 7, 2021

Not only were they able to evaluate complexity, but they also used the data to estimate resources and project duration in a matter of minutes. For experienced and mature department heads and their reliance on internal knowledge and past experiences, they will be able to formulate an overall resource plan along with a ballpark cost estimate.

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2016 2014 PMO Software Review 52

Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Can All This Formality Have Any Use in Modern Software Development? Prototype of a Graphical CONOPS (Concept of Operations) Development Environment for Agile Systems Engineering," Final Technical Report SERC-2013-TR-030-2 August 30, 2013. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing.

2014 38

2014 2013 2012 Engineering 38

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). The BLUE bars are the probabilistic ranges of the current estimate date.

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). The BLUE bars are the probabilistic ranges of the current estimate date.

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). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

We develop software for the airline industry.” This is back in 2013. Each side of the pyramid is 767 ft long, it’s as tall as a 40 story building, and it has an estimated 2.5 Estimates put the workforce at up to 40,000 people at the height of construction. It’s estimated by 2050 it’ll be over 50%.

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Sustainability Underperforming Technical Team Construction Certification 98

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2016

It’s going to be a useful addition to your set of project management software tools and you can get started for free with the web version to see if you like it. You'll also like: Software Review: Project Viewer for Primavera [2016] This article was updated with minor amends on 27 March 2016. Header Image credit: placeit.net.

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Software Review 2016 Software 2013 158

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The previous approaches to project performance management and production of the Estimate to Complete and Estimate at Completion make use of past performance. 413-426, 2013. Estimating Models for Program Management," Norman Womer and Jeff Cman, Final Technical Reports, N00014-00-1-0280, Unversity of Mississippi, 2003.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

When teams estimate work, hearing an initial estimate is likely to “anchor” further estimates. So when people are asked how much time something will take, and they are offered an initial estimate of 20 days, their own estimates will gravitate towards that number. . Examples in the workplace. Liersch, M.

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2015 2014 2004 Influencer 222

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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Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

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?

Estimate 40

Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Stepping Into Project Management

JANUARY 13, 2014

Two common project management issues that I continually struggle with are estimating the level of effort and duration when working with a team of all part-time team members, a topic discussed in the book, and working with first time project team members with limited or no project management knowledge, which is one of the reasons for the book.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Project Life Cycle 2014 2013 28

MPUG

JUNE 30, 2019

Microsoft Project is a software application sold by Microsoft that provides project management tools to manage projects. Organize, estimate, and schedule work, resources, and costs to ensure projects are completed according to plan. The software is automatically kept up to date (with options for customizable policies).

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Why do software teams?—?despite 2013) actually suggests that code smells themselves are not necessarily the issue, but the length of the class being edited and the number of changes made to it over time. Why is code quality so often an issue? despite their best initial intentions?—?often I have many intuitions about this.

Software Review 184

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 2015 184

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 chart below shows 4 estimating types, including No Estimates, the sample sizes for each type and the components that make up the estimating types.

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Estimate Agile 2013 Software Developers 28

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Nexus is Scrum.org's framework for scaled product/software delivery. The example below (from 2013 or so) shows one such structure. Throughput for each team can be used to help create realistic plans without too much time spent on detailed estimations - freeing up time to focus on the integration challenges.

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SCRUM 2008 2013 Software Review 205

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Project Management Software & Tools. Project Management Software & Tools. 77% of companies use project management software, and 87% of high-performing companies use project management software. [5]. Top Business Challenges that Lead People to Project Management Software: Capturing time/cost of projects: 62%.

2015 60

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).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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Estimate 2006 2005 2013 64

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

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. They have to be estimated in the start. A quick estimate is needed to decide what to do. Estimating on projects is part of the close loop control system. Good question.

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Controlling Technical Review Estimate 2013 42

Wrike

JUNE 3, 2021

All ticket-related information and records are stored in the ticketing software and can be used for upcoming process improvements and data analysis or to support team performance reviews. There’s no point in introducing new software if your team cannot measure the results. What are the benefits of IT ticketing software?

Technical Review 36

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software 36

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

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. There are two fundamental assumptions for Little's Law to work in the software development domain". Kanban and Software Development. This is the service time.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2008 Software Developers Software Development 34

Workzone

MARCH 12, 2019

The only enlightenment this list will give you is in regards to which project management software you should be using. Founded by former Facebook higher-ups, Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, Asana is a project management software solution with a lot of name recognition behind it. Frustrated with Asana?

2019 49

2019 Underperforming Technical Team 2013 Software 49

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.

Software Review 34

Software Review Technical Review Estimate Software Developers 34

MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

And so this is where agile kind of fits in and isn’t just necessarily only for software development. And remember, agile is kind of born out of the need for technical project management or in many cases, software development. But it is clearly not limited to just software. Am I getting the velocity?

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Agile Technical Review Lean Underperforming Technical Team 40

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. And please take note that we have resources in here, we have estimated work, we have duration, we have some completed tasks.

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2013 Finance 2007 Software Review 40

Resource Guru

JUNE 23, 2023

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Software Review Technical Review Software 2021 52