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. IT Risk Management.

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Process Estimate Engineering Performance Measurement 56

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

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.

Performance Measurement 49

Performance Measurement Engineering Lean Software Developers 49

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. AHP is based on the principle that all measurements are relative.

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

All companies desire to remain competitive and continuously improve their project management performance by becoming more efficient and more effective in the execution of their project management processes. The internal organizational units can also be responsible for evaluating external literature related to project management.

Aerospace 59

Aerospace Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 59

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Active reduction requires we have a desired reduction goal, perform the work, and measure progress toward the rduction goal. Measure of Effectiveness.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Wrike

JULY 1, 2020

Smarter hiring, workplace culture initiatives, and day-to-day operational excellence are all priorities in the industry, meaning that project management for HR has never been more important. In fact, HR professionals are increasingly adopting project management tools to improve their processes and workflows. .

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Performance Measurement Executing 36

Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

For project management domain, what are some Principles? Each of these processes has Practices that have been shown to be widely applicable in many domains, including Agile development. With execution underway, managing the risks of the project becomes our focus beyond the engineering work. Related articles.

Process 53

Process Engineering Software Developers Software Development 53

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. One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management.

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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.

Software 48

Software Agile Performance Measurement Risk Management 48

Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Here's two recent ones I've encountered with some Agile and #NoEstimates advocates. Setting targets and measuring performance against that target is the basis of all closed loop control systems used to manage projects. In our domain this control system is the Risk Adjusted Earned Value Management System (EVMS).

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Estimate Software Developers Software Development 28

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

AUGUST 27, 2017

Corrective Action/Preventative Action: Productivity in software development is simple to define and measure: One start is to use Earned Value Management, but we won't get there. This is standard Product Management. Done by every Product Manager for every Product Company. Estimates are NOT Guesses.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

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. . All these books are in print.

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

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. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The project and portfolio management (PPM) software market is changing. 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. Digitalization and Collaboration.

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Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150

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. He was not a program manager of engineered to order software intensive system of systems. Let's look at one example. 4, September 1945, pp.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Resource Guru

JUNE 14, 2022

But a great project scheduler goes a step further by placing a focus on the wellbeing of the humans in your workplace – reducing project fatigue and ensuring your team members can manage their daily workload and stay physically, mentally, and emotionally productive. Time management. Resource management. Collaboration.

Software Review 52

Software Review 2022 Software Technical Review 52

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security.

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