2014, Estimate, Risk Management and Software Developers

Risk Management Resources

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. requires making estimates) ? Risk Management Papers. “A

Risk Management

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002

A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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. reducible and irreducible

Risk Management

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002

A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Managment Processes. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Top Habits of Successful Project Managers. The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of Performance Management.

2003

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement

Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. First, let's establish a principle.

2003

2003 2014 2015 2011

Process Reduces Agility? Only on De Minimis Projects

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 15, 2017

I've been in the software development business for 30 years, mostly in the Software Intensive System of Systems world, where embedded systems are 100 times more prevalent than business, web and desktop systems. An Assessment of Avionics Software Development Practice: Justifications for an Agile Development Process," Geir K.

Process

Process Agile 2011 Aerospace

Resources for Cone of Uncertainty

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. This letter states.

2007

2007 2012 2009 2010

Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Brown and his book The Handbooks of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management and my review of the same book. This decision model for software development projects addressed: performance, cost, time, and risk.

Technical Review

Technical Review 2010 2014 Software Developers

What is Bimodal IT and How Does it Work?

Wrike

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Traditional development processes no longer cut it — IT teams must adopt dynamic ways to maintain current infrastructures while improving their workflows and systems to address changing market demands. Bimodal IT is a concept that was first introduced by leading global IT research firm Gartner in 2014. So, what is bimodal IT?

Technical Review

Technical Review Infrastructure Innovation Software Review

Concept of Operations

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. Related articles.

2014

2014 2013 2012 Engineering

Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

This ignores the principles of predictive analytics, and the direct management actions taken to produce outcomes from those analytical models found everywhere from project management to grocery store management and the model-based systems engineering. In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes.

Aerospace

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014

Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

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. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

Software Developers

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

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. . Software Risk Management , Barry W.

Risk Management

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011

Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes.

Technical Review

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance

Software Estimating Resources

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. 61, September 2004.

Estimate

Estimate Software Review Software 2012

The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

JULY 22, 2020

The number one thing every project manager needs to level up their skills is experience. A good project management book. While there are tons of fantastic resources online for learning how to be a better project manager (such as this blog!) Jump to a section: The best books for mastering the fundamentals of project management.

2020

2020 Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review

DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points.

Estimate

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review

DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. For software development starts with. And then some more resources for managing in the presence of complexity . A complexity primers for systems engineers.

Estimate

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review

DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. If we take Tim Lister's advice about managing risk while spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty, where is the adult supervision here? . .

Estimate

Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review

Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Need up-to-date facts and figures for a project management report, article, or infographic? Browse this collection of project management statistics collected from studies and reports from the past five years. Benefits of Project Management. —1A. Project Management Methodologies. —1B. Project Management Best Practices. —1C.

2015

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review

Vendor Showcase Recap: Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis – By Barbecana

MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of John Owen’s showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, presented by Barbecana.

Risk

Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team

Vendor Showcase Recap: Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis – By Barbecana

MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of John Owen’s showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, presented by Barbecana.

Risk

Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team

Estimating is a Learned Skill

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. The Future of Systems-and Software Development.

Estimate

Estimate 2006 2005 2013

Monte Carlo Simulation

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Estimation is part of project management. . The most important estimates for the project manager are related to time and cost. . Since it is easier to estimate small tasks, these estimates are often calculated and performed as point estimates, for example, a task will take 3 days.

Technical Review

Technical Review 2010 Estimate Software Review

Project Management Update

Risk Management Resources

A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Trending Sources

A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Process Reduces Agility? Only on De Minimis Projects

Resources for Cone of Uncertainty

Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

What is Bimodal IT and How Does it Work?

Concept of Operations

Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Software Estimating Resources

The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

DDSTOP The Saga Continues

DDSTOP The Saga Continues

DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Vendor Showcase Recap: Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis – By Barbecana

Vendor Showcase Recap: Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis – By Barbecana

Estimating is a Learned Skill

Monte Carlo Simulation

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