MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

After having worked for outsourcing, consultancy and product companies I believe that creating a place where people really trust each other is easier when software engineers and stakeholders are both part of the same organization. Agile development works best when there is a trust but verify paradigm. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. These systems were designed and built incrementally and iteratively decades before Agile was even a thought for the authors of the Agile Manifesto.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

This book was handed out by Jeff Sutherland at the State of Agile conference as an indication of how agile has come to represent sloppy thinking on behalf of many of its advocates. . The Fermi estimate, or order estimation is an estimation problem, teaches dimensional analysis, approximation, using a back-of-the-envelope calculation.

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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

In the agile world, people have datasets from their projects, their friends projects, or made up projects. This was my starting point for becoming a software engineer rather than a physicist, by the way. . Root Cause Analysis is a powerful tool for finding the cause of an observed symptom. So here's the point.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

There's a popular phrase in some parts of the agile community that goes like this. Software development is a Value Creaton activity, but Value cannot be determined unless we know the cost to produce that value and when that value will be available for use by those who of paid for that Value. We focus on value production, not delivery.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 9, 2017

DeMacro made this post, which has been picked up by the agile community to mean estimating is a waste. . For example in "Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?" where the original 10% and 500% return example comes from, he goes on with an analogy of parenting teenagers where he says.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 1] Systems Engineering Measurement Primer, INCOSE. [2] 2] System Analysis, Design, and Development Concepts, Principles, and Practices, Charles Wasson, John Wiley & Sons. [3] 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5]

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 1] Systems Engineering Measurement Primer, INCOSE. [2] 2] System Analysis, Design, and Development Concepts, Principles, and Practices, Charles Wasson, John Wiley & Sons. [3] 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5]

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 1] Systems Engineering Measurement Primer, INCOSE. [2] 2] System Analysis, Design, and Development Concepts, Principles, and Practices, Charles Wasson, John Wiley & Sons. [3] 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5]

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

In our domain, Root Cause Analysis is mandated before ANY suggested change for improvement, prevention, or corrective actions are taken. This approach is also the basis of Analysis of Alternatives and other trades when it is determined that the desired measures cannot be achieved. Our RCA method is the Apollo Method.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

That says you're either too lazy to do the estimating, I don't you know how to do the estimating, or you really just want to get going and write software, because that's what you do for a living. Software Estimating Taxonomy. Alternatives to Agile Estimation. An Agile Estimating Story. Estimating on Agile Projects.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Economics is a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. 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.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We did an extensive analysis of various factors that influence waterfall project management. This helped us to simplify how nTask project management software can be used for solving such issues. Benington gave a presentation about the development of software for SAGE at Symposium on advanced programming methods for digital computers.

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Teamweek

JUNE 13, 2023

Learning agility According the the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report , 50% of all employees will need reskilling by 2025, in order to keep up with the adoption of new technologies. You use it to outline the requirements of the candidate and by using it, you comply with your government’s labor laws.

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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

Traceability in an agile life cycle consists of? How are the requirements monitored and controlled in an agile lifecycle? In an Agile lifecycle, requirements are controlled during monitoring and controlling by managing the backlog. One of the things that is a hallmark of Agile is change.

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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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments. Even with clear requirements?—?and

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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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. We use Vitech's Core.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Under his leadership, over 100 professionals have earned the Agile Certified Practitioner, ACP certification, and many have written their detailed success stories. He frequently writes on Agile topics, bringing in innovative practices. Now in the world of Agile, things are not static. Why should you go for it?

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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.

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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). Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 7, 2023

What’s the problem with recruiting software developers? The demand for software developers far outweighs the available supply, making it a real challenge to find the right candidates. To make matters worse, top-notch software engineers know their worth and often expect handsome salaries.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They take increasingly specialized knowledge, or an exponential amount of human-power to maintain, and it’s slowly killing company’s ability to operate with agility. Video Transcript Chris Beale In traditional software development. We were taught object-oriented analysis, object-oriented design. Wow, that’s crazy.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

instrumentation to facilitate analysis and correction of production issues. The build should include style checking, linting, and static code analysis in addition to compiling, linking, and low-level automated checking. The same rule of thumb applies to other governance reviews, as well. automated fraud detection.

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