Herding Cats

DECEMBER 30, 2017

One of the 4 summary root causes of project performance failures is Unrealistic Cost and Schedule Estimates based on inadequate risk-adjusted growth models. One notion in a governance paradigm is It's Not Your Money . If you have no uncertainty, then estimates provide no value. This is how business works.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Agile A flexible and dynamic approach to project management that allows for iterative updates during defined time blocks, which allows for incremental value. Agile Manifesto The fundamental document that outlines the values and principles of Agile project management. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g.,

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Four Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation In this article, our CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, explores why focusing on practices and culture isn’t the right place to start an Agile Transformation. Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Is SAFe Agile?

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Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This is especially important in software development projects, where terms such as deployment , release , go-live , and implementation get used interchangeably, causing endless confusion and misalignment. Identify tasks, estimate timings, and map a timeline Step 4. Jump to a section: What is an implementation plan?

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Paul Boos has a post about estimating and makes a case for the Principles of when NOT to estimate. This struck a cord around a bigger topic - the inversion of estimating. When should we NOT estimate? Then on to the original conjecture for No Estimates from Paul's post. That is, to make decision with “No estimates”.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. It’s about creating business outcomes.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2016

There appears to be a resurgence in the No Projects conversation, similar to the No Estimates notion that has been around for awhile. I’m going to suggest that most of the disconnects around ideas of software development ‒ from No Estimates to No Projects to whatever ‒ starts with Developers and the assumption It’s their money.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. These systems were designed and built incrementally and iteratively decades before Agile was even a thought for the authors of the Agile Manifesto. Software-intensive systems include: .

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

government began using it to manage complex defense projects. There are two main approaches to project management: waterfall, agile, and hybrid approaches. Agile Agile project management is a more flexible approach focusing on adapting to change and delivering value early and often.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population. The estimate can also be produced parametrically or through a simulation (Monte Carlo is common, but Method of Moments is another we use). . Estimates can be about the past, present, or future.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, the digital transformation market was estimated at a whopping $731.1 However, as IT projects often require a deeper understanding of technology, many IT PMs have a background in software development or IT support. In the agile world, you’ll start your daily standups and complete your first sprints.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. There are not specific to Agile Software Development. This is connected to the Financial Plan for earning back the investment of the development. Agile teams, for the most part, are a fixed set of resources, so the spending plan is essentially Flat.

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Planview

JUNE 28, 2019

When implementing Lean-Agile practices at scale, organizations quickly realize that their push for agility conflicts with traditional budgeting and cost accounting practices. It’s not possible to truly achieve organizational agility without evolving these practices. Estimates and Why They’re Unproductive.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 18, 2017

There is a posted question at an agile conference. Can you make a decision without an estimate? Like many discussions in the domain of agile, the statement is made without any evidence that it is true, nor can even be true in principle. Don't assume, Estimate. This type of fallacy is common. . First a principle.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Agile Project Management. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Risk Management.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Four Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation In this article, our CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, explores why focusing on practices and culture isn’t the right place to start an Agile Transformation. Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Is SAFe Agile?

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? An estimate is. It's a fallacy.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 11, 2018

There are lots of quotes flying around the agile community. Working software over comprehensive documentation.” Those artifacts may well be the critical success factors for the software - how about the User Manual, the Maintenance Manual, the Installation Manual, the Performance Tuning Manual. The Original Quote. The Assessment.

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Planview

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, many digital transformation initiatives struggle to deliver the expected financial value, with more than half lagging behind original estimates, according to a Gartner survey of CIOs. So what can technology organizations do to achieve a higher rate of return on investment (ROI)?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 17, 2016

There's a meme going around in some parts of agile that management is inhumane. Managing in the presence of Agile is not the same as managing in traditional domains. One view of management in Agile can be informed by Governance of the work efforts. Agile Software Development in the DOD.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 3, 2017

Alistair Cockburn's talk on 21st Century Software development. . Pay attention the hoax of #Noestimates and most major misunderstandings of the Agile Manifesto and the 12 Principle.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2019

A critical success factor for a software development project is how it is funded. But greater flexibility generally requires a more skillful approach to governance and project management. But greater flexibility generally requires a more skillful approach to governance and project management.

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

Establish project governance: Project charter templates help to identify key stakeholders and team members involved in the project, e.g., project sponsors, project manager, and team lead, indicating who is responsible for specific tasks and who has the authority to make decisions. This includes personnel, equipment, and funding.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

SAs an early user (as a FORTRAN 77 developer on Software Intensive System of Systems for Ballistic Missle Defense systems), the principles of Iterative and incremental development, emergent requirements, customer in the loop , and other principles, practices, and processes found in Agile started long before the Agile Manifesto.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

So what about bad ideas in the project management world, especialy the Agile Software Development world. One starting point is to ask if the ideas have any basis in a principle of how business or development of software actually works? Those who pay usually have some form of governance of their money. .

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

The estimate of Desired (or even contractual ) schedule, cost, or technical performance of the software project. The granularity of these estimates determining the dynamic behavior of the system ‒ the software project. Managing software development projects is a Closed Loop control system.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. This is the motivation for short work intervals found in agile development. . All estimates have precision and accuracy. A percentage of that value.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? As more details get developed, the Cone converges to the actual value. Steve McConnell.

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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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Wrike

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Therefore, any software development project where team members are familiar with the process and have clarity of project requirements can be considered mode 1. Mode 2 is often conducted using the Agile project management framework. Mode 2 follows a more Agile and iterative process. Flexibility. Zero or minimum downtime.

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Agilemania

AUGUST 19, 2021

So, if you are having the same critical questions in mind and want to explore agile development, then you are on the right page. It is an iterative and incremental structure for project management mainly used in agile software development. Agile Expert — Great Scrum Masters are experts in Agility.

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Agilemania

AUGUST 19, 2021

So, if you are having the same critical questions in mind and want to explore agile development, then you are on the right page. It is an iterative and incremental structure for project management mainly used in agile software development. Agile Expert — Great Scrum Masters are experts in Agility.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 15, 2017

Why estimates don't work - Carmen is assigned a project that will make or break the company. Then comes one of three quotes that are the basis of the argument for NOT estimating. This quote is misused to suggest that estimating can't be done. Several other "agile" books do the say they. This is why Agile!

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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. This is the foundation for estimates.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This is a good starting point for answering the mail on the notion that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impact of those decisions. Each of the authors have a different, sometimes slight, sometimes maor, approach to producing software using their methods. He had an interesting statement.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 2, 2017

This is a chart from an agile conference where #Noestimates was a topic. So the first part is following standard estimating principles. So let's look at this manifesto : Probabilistic over Deterministic - there is no deterministic process in software development. From large construction to software development.

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