Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

What is an estimate? An estimate as a noun is an approximate calculation or judgment of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something. An estimate as a verb is to roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of. But those estimates, nouns, and verbs themselves's have other attributes.

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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. Department of Energy.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 29, 2017

A popular quote in the agile community is Wilo's Law. To make some conjecture that some process will fix the problem - Estimates are the smell of dysfunction and NOT Estimating will fix that dysfunction - is naive at best and willfully ignorant of Root Cause Analysis at worse. Measures of Performance.

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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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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

You winged the entire project execution process, and now the theory of it all is taking a toll on you. . Agile projects usually do not have set or fixed scope, making this method extremely adaptive to changes proposed by clients. . This criterion is used as a basis for project monitoring and evaluating processes. Assumption.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

Practices and Process are Fads. A Process is a series of steps and decisions involved in the way work is completed. Here's my version in the form of questions that when answered form the foundation for the Practices and Processes. What does Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers?

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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. The Measures of Performance are.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

This system encompasses processes, principles, understanding customer preferences, and best practices designed to optimize project outcomes while aligning with organizational objectives. Efficiency and effectiveness are also measures of value creation. Customer value or the desired outcomes are established at the start of projects.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2017

Measures of Performance (MOP) – characterize physical or functional attributes relating to the system operation, measured or estimated under specific conditions. These measures are attributes that assure the system has the capability and capacity to perform.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2017

The common definition of the Definition of Done in agile software development is (mostly from the Scrum Alliance and other official Scrum sites): A simple list of activities (coding, comments, unit testing, integration, release notes, design documents, etc.) These Measures have Little meaning to the Decision Makers. And many more.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Of late, Cone of Uncertainty has become the mantra of No Estimates advocates claiming that data is needed BEFORE the Cone is of any use. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Measure of Effectiveness. Measure of Performance.

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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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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . Let's look at what an estimate is.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM).

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty. This is due to many reasons.

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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. Step 3: Be able to analyze the business and project management processes of other companies/organizations.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 5, 2017

And to make those risk-informed decisions in the presence of reducible and irreducible uncertainty we need to ESTIMATE. So let's look at the principles, processes, and practices that will be in the White paper when it is complete. Unrealistic Cost and Schedule Estimates. Impacts of Risk on Program Performance.

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Wrike

JULY 1, 2020

In fact, HR professionals are increasingly adopting project management tools to improve their processes and workflows. . Using formal project management processes, procedures, and tools can help lower risk and increase success on all of these long-term HR activities. Some of the outcomes of this process include: .

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 29, 2018

There's a popular notion in Agile that says Focus on Value. The principles of microeconomics of decision making in the presence of uncertainty mandates you make estimates of how to achieve that Value in terms of cost and schedule, those three (and all) variables are random variables, usually driven by a stochastic process.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM).

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Here's two recent ones I've encountered with some Agile and #NoEstimates advocates. 2nd Law of Thermodynamics states that the total entropy of an isolated system always increases over time, or remains constant in ideal cases where the system is in a steady state or undergoing a reversible process. No measures of effectiveness.

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Herding Cats

JULY 20, 2016

A common assertion in the Agile community is we focus on Value over Cost. As random variables, both need estimates to make informed decisions. A target Value must be measured in units meaningful to the decision makers. Measures of Effectiveness and Performance that can monetized this Value. Both are equally needed.

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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. 37–48, 2007.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2016

This is a good start, but it needs to produce actionable outcomes , not just principles, but practices and processes. Much of Ackoff's principles are the basis of practices and processes that assure this happens. . Technical Performance Measures. Agile as a Systems Engineering Paradigm. Estimating Guidance.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This method is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. I came to AHP through a seminar by Dr. Mathematically, the value equals performance over cost plus time. The risks related to performance, cost, and time must also be considered. The Wrap Up . And of course.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Of late I've encountered many people on the web and in face-to-face encounters that simply fail to understand how probability and statistics works and how the principles of probability and statistics impact our decision-making processes. Introduction to Stochastic Process , Paul G. Hoel, Sidney C. Port, Charles J.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM).

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Herding Cats

JULY 17, 2017

I work in a domain where estimates are made every single week. Estimate to Complete (ETC), Estimate at Completion (EAC), Estimated Completion Date (ECD) are the life blood of our software intensive system of systems programs. People, Processes, and Tools all interacting in complex and complicated ways. .

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Activity Duration Estimates Review . is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. Analogous Estimating . is a state of resource allocation performed by a project manager.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Activity Duration Estimates Review . is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. Analogous Estimating . is a state of resource allocation performed by a project manager.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. The customer is accountable for knowing what Done Looks Like (in Unity of measure meaningful to their domain). The results include system-level qualities, properties, characteristics, functions, behavior, and performance.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Acceptance Test: A process through which a project's end users run through the project to identify any potential issues before it can be formally accepted. Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

A recent lawsuit by Hertz Rental Car against Accenture has turned into a rallying cry by Agilest and No Estimates advocates. Of course, No Root Cause analysis has been performed by these advocates, but it makes good click bait for their followers. Were there: Measures of Effectiveness. Measures of Performance.

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Herding Cats

MAY 12, 2018

This quote is typically the basis of proposing agile software development over traditional software development. But if the development work is a Project is a fixed period of performance, for a fixed (with margin) budget, and a fixed set of Capabilities, then the question is can agile be used to develop the software?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

By the way, the pure conjecture that agile enables late changing requirements to not have a significant impact on the cost and schedule of the development project is completely lacking any testable evidence outside of personal anecdotes of agile advocates. risks that affect the cost and schedule measures of the program.

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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. But when some statement is made about risk, estimating, performance modeling, or the like - always ask for references. This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk.

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