Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities. Who's Budget is it Anyway?

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Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

We are solving complex problems, which require us to use an empirical process, lean UX practices, and a supporting technology platform that allows us to build, measure, learn and apply the learning in a repeatable fashion. Balance your incentive and performance measures. They are trying to predict and deliver.

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Lean Performance Measurement Innovation Software 130

The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 11, 2024

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne in their book “ Blue Ocean Strategy.” Situations involving agile approaches , disruption , employing SAFe agile methods are ripe to leverage the Strategy Canvas. Finally, it details the use and benefits of the tool for practicing strategy and project management.

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Technical Review Innovation Sustainability Retail 105

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It's been said by an agile voice that. The original agile author's quote shows that systems engineering is missing from his development of software using Agile. In Earned Value Management paradigm, progress is always measured as physical percent complete. Technical Performance Measures.

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Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It can be the needed performance of a measure - Effectiveness, Performance, Key Performance Parameter, or a Technical Performance Measures. The specifics of the Technical Performance Measures applied to inform Physical Percent Complete and the Cone of Uncertainty around the TPM are shown here.

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Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 29, 2017

A popular quote in the agile community is Wilo's Law. Read a book on good writing. The first book is Beyond Bullet Points , Clif Atkinson. Here's a summary of that book. In this last book, Evans shows how to write clear, concise, and powerful content. Measures of Performance. Learn the language.

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Process Estimate Engineering Performance Measurement 56

Herding Cats

AUGUST 14, 2016

For some reason the notion if value is a big mystery in the agile community. Many blogs, tweets, books are spent of speaking about Value as the priority in agile software development. Without units of measure of Value beyond time and money, there can be not basis of comparison between one value based choice and another.

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Performance Measurement Engineering Lean Software Developers 49

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ? Shall I notify you about articles like this one? But what if there’s a tool that could help navigate this complexity?

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

This is a new Category on Herding Cats that comes from my finishing of the book Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics , Gary Smith. How to Lie with Statistics , Darrell Huff - t his is the first book you should have on your shelf, no matter what role you play at work or in life.

Engineering 52

Engineering Performance Measurement Risk Management Risk 52

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Here's a paper that has been under constant development for several years now and is headed to a Journal and part of an upcoming book chapter. The motivation for the paper started when there were claims made the somehow agile software projects were different than other types of projects. In practice there are differences.

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Software Agile Performance Measurement Risk Management 48

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. Mathematically, the value equals performance over cost plus time. June 7, 1946, pp. 677-680. . [5]

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Technical Review 2010 2014 Software Developers 47

Wrike

JULY 1, 2020

It’s one of the 10 major project management process areas in the PMBOK (Project Management Book of Knowledge). Establishing productivity and performance measures for the team. Help you more successfully plan for quarterly and annual goals and activities using project planning methods and frameworks (such as Agile ). .

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Performance Measurement Executing 36

MPUG

MAY 21, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 3: Using MS Project to Track and Report on Performance, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. This one’s titled using MS Project to track and report on performance.

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Performance Measurement Technical Review Software Review Budget 52

Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

Each of these processes has Practices that have been shown to be widely applicable in many domains, including Agile development. With the Requirements in place - and these can be a list of Features held in the Product Roadmap and Release Plan for agile, we need to lay out how they will be built. Then we need to execute this baseline.

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Process Engineering Software Developers Software Development 53

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Please read the book in the previous sentence to see why this is critical and how it is done. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. These measures - combined - provide insight into the probability of program success.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Here's two recent ones I've encountered with some Agile and #NoEstimates advocates. Without setting a target to measure against, we have: No baseline control. No measures of effectiveness. No measures of performance. No technical performance measures. No Key Performance Parameters.

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Performance Measurement Estimate Software Developers Software Development 28

International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Our company would not be happy giving this template to everyone who wants to purchase a book for $85. Therefore, it will be necessary to benchmark the metrics use as part of performance measurement. He also led the firm’s Middle East and North Africa Portfolio Management and Agile Governance Solutions. .

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Aerospace Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 59

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. In the book is the mention of the Cone of Uncertainty as it applies to managing in the presence of uncertanty.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

The audit, surveillance, performance reporting, measurement are at the core of all business processes. Agile development works best when there is a trust but verify paradigm. I strongly believe that "agile transformations are not about transforming IT, they are about transforming organizations". Related articles.

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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

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. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 15, 2018

The above is nice for a text book. Be Clear on Requirements and Confirm Performance Criteria. Requirements matched to agreed performance measurement criteria are a pair (or the same thing stated twice). Provide the skill and will to turn the resources into the required result – more below. Of course, people are different!

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Prince2 Technical Review Closing Defining 262

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Project management practitioners are looking for new lean and agile project management tools to support their day-to-day work and often seek them outside the tools that their organisations offer them. In other words, the market is confusing: Stick with what you know but host it in the cloud, or move to a new digital offering?

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Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

All making things smaller dos is show that you're late, over budget, and what you're building (Technical Performance Measures) doesn't work faster. 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. No References?

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Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. You Can’t Understand Agile Without Understanding Hayek. This is the basis of the Agile Product Roadmap and Product Release Plan (either cadence or capability based). Let's look at one example.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Resource Guru

JUNE 14, 2022

Features like time tracking, reporting, and performance measurement are incredibly helpful if efficiency is your main concern – but they’re not available in all project schedulers, and are rarely available on any low-tier plans. Collaboration. But with Resource Guru, we’ve made it simple to manage workloads across multiple projects.

Software Review 52

Software Review 2022 Software Technical Review 52

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Especially when they released the Sixth Edition, giving this agile guide. And they say, well, you know, if all else fails, you could try this agile guide as well. Jeff: If we’re talking in terms of emotional intelligence, I think I was discussing the different styles within that authored book. They did an excellent job.

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PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59