Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. Aleatory uncertainty is expressed as a process variability. First, let's establish a principle.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. Armour, Communications of the ACM , January 2014, Vol.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

“A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

“A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol.

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Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2017

The findings in this document are extracted by looking for correlations between decisions or behaviors (keeping teams stable, setting your team sizes to between five and nine, keeping your work in process— WiP—low, etc.) Let's add to that a few more Statistical Processing Issues. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis.

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Project Management Hacks

JUNE 16, 2016

In Ontario, a sharp decline in the number of automotive jobs prompted governments to provide billions of dollars to large car companies to boost the industry. A Fortune article reports findings from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas: nearly 500,000 layoffs were announced in 2015 (an increase compared to 2014).

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Analytical Hierarchical Process . Some Model-Based Systems Engineering process.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

We were on of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Princeton University Press, July 21, 2014. [4] There was a banner campaign to get the message across.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . COSMIC - is a voluntary, worldwide grouping of software metrics experts.

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PM That Works

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Thanks for hanging with us in the replay last week, I thought it was apropos as that that lead in music for those of you that don't know that lead in music is by a group called the party that I've been an executive producer of. Or it had to be my idea, whatever that is, even all the way up until about 2014. So congratulations to them.

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MPUG

JULY 1, 2020

There’s a grouping called constraints. Let me find it, constraint type, and when you use the grouping, it will show you all of the different types of strange that you’ve got an effect in your project. It isn’t heaven and earth, and your reputation will be better off in the process. It’s just baselining.

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PM That Works

AUGUST 1, 2020

And, you know, that was a team that, you know, I think on paper, nobody expected us to do much, but it was just a phenomenal group of guys that loved each other and believed in the common goal. In many cases, it is not the software that is failing but the implementation limitations or processes surrounding the use of that software.

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MPUG

JANUARY 9, 2020

So we move kind of, basically through the process of looking at one of the tools that are available. And the intent is to make sure that as you bring in the tools together, that if you want to build reports, or workflow, or you want to create process that allows you to kind of interact with other technologies, you could do so very easily.

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PM That Works

JUNE 27, 2020

All the Nielsen panels and all the other things you refer to was just a group of sample size of 10,000 people and they represented the entire country. VoiceAmerica 10:36 Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? There may not be a group that they want to listen to. Is that fair?

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PM That Works

AUGUST 22, 2020

So yeah, so we we filmed in the state Summer of 2013 and we're getting we're getting back there in the company's history and then we aired in the spring of 2014. In many cases, it is not the software that is failing, but the implementation limitations or processes surrounding the use of that software. I talk about it all day.

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PM That Works

AUGUST 8, 2020

It's something that you know, I came to near bankruptcy in 2014. People are looking for customers, that's what they come, they come to the networking event to sell people at the high level, we're looking for people that already have our customers, big groups. And you'll see some things change in a hurry. How do I get the money?

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MPUG

JULY 17, 2020

Jim Spiller: Then, a few years ago in 2014, we took those two tools, which were always separate tools for the first 20 years or so, that would be a Schedule Pro to do work breakdown PERT Chart Expert to do network charts and we combined those into one tool called WBS Schedule Pro. It’s a great way to visualize a project.

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PM That Works

APRIL 11, 2020

You know, my group of friends I, I still talk to, you know, my seven closest friends since kindergarten. million in liability debt Three years later, him and I ended up having a falling out in 2014. VoiceAmerica 11:53 Are you frustrated with the overall productivity of your project management processes? I ended up being $1.5

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MPUG

MAY 24, 2020

So we have been nominated, Partner of the Year, in the year 2014. So for example, if I am interested in seeing how projects that are being managed by, for example, Cindy Process, I will be able to click here on her name and this would fire the visual to keep the interactions with all the other visuals I have in my report.

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MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Kyle: John joined Barbecana as CLO in 2014, and assumed the role of President, and CEO in 2019. As with any statistical process, the more information you have, the more reliable the results will become into the future. John Owen: So, the process is we add the uncertainty, and then we run the simulation, we review the output.

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MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Kyle: John joined Barbecana as CLO in 2014, and assumed the role of President, and CEO in 2019. As with any statistical process, the more information you have, the more reliable the results will become into the future. John Owen: So, the process is we add the uncertainty, and then we run the simulation, we review the output.

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