Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Why do you think projects are still late and over budget when professional project management techniques have been around for years? In a software development organization they increased productivity by more than 500% and achieved 100% release date achievement. A version of this interview first appeared on this site in 2015.

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Underperforming Technical Team Critical Chain 2015 Controlling 362

Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 1, 2016

The CHAOS Reports have been published every year since 1994 and are a snapshot of the state of the software development industry. The Standish Group 2015 Chaos Report studied 50,000 projects around the world, ranging from small enhancements to massive systems implementations. Courtesy of AdobeStock (edited in Canva).

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Underperforming Technical Team 2015 Software Review Budget 150

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Several empirical studies have indeed found that teams with a frequent delivery strategy are more likely to deliver successful project outcomes and satisfy stakeholders than teams that do not ( Chow & Cao, 2008 , Jørgensen, 2016 ). So teams need to develop a good understanding of who their stakeholders are and what they need.

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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. Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp.

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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. 4, February 24, 2015. 255, April 2010.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2018

There's a fallacy used by some in the software development business, that estimates are not needed to make decisions in the presence of uncertainty. In this case, there is an 80% confidence the project will complete on or before 11/06/2015. . Most IT projects have some made up budget and schedule.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But if you’re not doing it with like executive support and with an integrated strategy from beginning to end, it’s really difficult to sustain momentum. Talk to me about some of the challenges that you had taking it straight from a software development perspective. That was kind of part of it.

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Technical Review Software Review Agile Governance 112