Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Before listening to any conjecture that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of Uncertainty for software development, please read these books. What are we looking for? Reading Materials. Start here.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. Having spent half my life in the commercial space and half in the government space, the questions are always there. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs. So, I’m basically saying the middle ground is a software engineer.

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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 ? This variation can be explained by the fact that initial concepts do not describe the final software system accurate enough.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. 5, September/October 2011.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The Incremental Commit Spiral Model provides an iterative and incremental framework for complex software intensive system of systems. Agile is certainty more common these days and has moved to Software Intensive System of Systems where I work, but IID has been around a long time. 4, December 1975.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. What factors lead to software project failure?” All for the want of a nail.

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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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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. Sizing Challenges," Victor Fuster & Taylor Putnam-Majarian, Software and IT-CASR Proceedings , 22-24 August 2017. Newnes, Linda B., Mileham, Antony R.,

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. We engineers should always keep in mind that software development is usually one part of many others inside the company.

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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. Software development is Micro, not Macro.

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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. . Implicit in the quote (and indeed in the book’s title) is that control is an important aspect, maybe the most important, of any software project. For example in "Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?"

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

We can estimate the total cost, total duration, and the probability that all the Features will be delivered on the program we are working for the US Government. Or ANY software project for that matter. This is the domain of Microeconomics and when applied to software development it is the microeconomics of software development.

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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. . They use these datasets to support some position. A Story About Data, Models of Data, and Decision Making.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Most of these roles were based on aspects of IT operation, such as mainframe operation and maintenance, which later evolved into software development and commercialisation. As governments and organisations began to utilise IT to run their organisations, the concepts of ‘services’ began to evolve.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You start selling software licenses, you disrupt the whole way of selling. The whole value chain beyond just the engineering piece gets disrupted. Today I’m going to introduce you to leading Agile’s new Chief Operating Officer, a gentleman by the name of Philippe Bonneton. Agile is a term I learned.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You start selling software licenses, you disrupt the whole way of selling. The whole value chain beyond just the engineering piece gets disrupted. Today I’m going to introduce you to leading Agile’s new Chief Operating Officer, a gentleman by the name of Philippe Bonneton. Agile is a term I learned.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] Software Engineering Economics”. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Agile Estimating and Planning, Prentice-Hall, 2005. [12]

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] Software Engineering Economics”. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Agile Estimating and Planning, Prentice-Hall, 2005. [12]

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] Software Engineering Economics”. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Agile Estimating and Planning, Prentice-Hall, 2005. [12]

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2019

Now that a software “Done” Milestone is more like a Tombstone. As software becomes more critical to business operations and product offerings we are seeing that software projects do not end. Many organizations are transitioning to become software focussed organizations that offer specialized services. October 2018.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Before choosing a specific tool though, you need to decide on the type of project management software you need. And choosing from the many different project management software types can be quite a challenge. Types of project management software based on the use case. Project and resource planning software.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. 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. Software engineering economics."

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. Shrinking The Cone Of Uncertainty With Continuous Assessment For Software Team Dynamics In Design And Development,” Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn,” Ph.D.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

This helped us to simplify how nTask project management software can be used for solving such issues. Its simplicity and ease of implementation has made it the most popular version of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) for software engineering and IT projects. Waterfall is a popular SDLC project management model.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Probabilistic over Deterministic is standard estimating processes in every single book, paper, guideline, policy, and regulations governing the development in use of estimates in commercial (ITIL) and Government (all agency and GAO Estimating handbooks). There is no way out of this when using staff to develop software.

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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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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. Chakraborty and K.

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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. But what it really says is.

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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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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

This Does Not Scale - If there are software development projects that can be executed without knowing how much it will cost in the end (an open ended spend plan), or projects where the budget is capped (a Not To Exceed Number) and we don't really need to know the upper bound of the features to be delivered, how large can this notion scale?

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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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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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Teamweek

AUGUST 7, 2023

With software development being the world’s most in-demand profession in 2023, tech companies and every technical recruiter on planet Earth are vying for their attention. TL;DR – Key Takeaways Developers specialise in creating and maintaining software applications and projects. Let’s find out. What does a developer do?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. Besides the process, software, and User Experience modeling of the interdependent components, Risk Management and most critically Risk Propagation can be modeled with DSM. Actual software process flows contain loops. Independent of what?

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The company’s out of Redmond, they’re part of Microsoft now, and mentioned that the developers and technologists, how they influence every function in sales marketing and HR and Microsoft’s going to be infused with that for more agility going forward. It’s a cloud-based collaboration software.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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 ‒ Steve McConnell. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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