The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Activity An activity is the actual, specific task that must be performed in a project, i.e., the tactical level of work. Agile A flexible and dynamic approach to project management that allows for iterative updates during defined time blocks, which allows for incremental value. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g.,

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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.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 10, 2019

A critical missing component of software development, especially agile software development, and even more especially agile software development is the notion of a System and a System of Systems. Measures of Performance. Key Performance Parameters.

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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 most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. Also, trailing indicator.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

This agility is crucial in a dynamic business environment where market conditions can change rapidly. For instance, a software development company that aims to be effective would focus on delivering bug-free software that provides a seamless user experience.

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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.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

Agile projects usually do not have set or fixed scope, making this method extremely adaptive to changes proposed by clients. . Performance Measurement Baseline. This creates a point of comparison of all the other baselines to evaluate project performance. Assumption. Optimistic Duration. Approach/Method/Methodologies.

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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. We produce Value at the end of every Sprint Value is the most important aspect of Scrum based development.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

AHP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Saaty. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. This decision model for software development projects addressed: performance, cost, time, and risk. Mathematically, the value equals performance over cost plus time. References . [1]

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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. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Here's two recent ones I've encountered with some Agile and #NoEstimates advocates. Rarely the case in software development, where Little's Law is misused often. The OP claimed Goodhart's Law was the source of most of the problems with software development. No measures of effectiveness. Hofstadter's law.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You can use these four key metrics to measure the performance of a software development team and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your DevOps operations overall. Sure, metrics and performance measurement are valuable, but what is it about DORA metrics that makes them uniquely reliable?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. These are all focused on developing software, delivering that software to those paying the developers. Anything less results in systems not worth having or fail to function or perform. [3],

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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. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . IEEE Software, March-April 2009, pp.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For software, this can be value produced (assuming we have a unit of measure for that value in the for of effectiveness, performance, key performance parameters, or technical performance measures ). It can be the cost, schedule, and technical performance measures of the software project.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2016

INCOSE has a Systems Engineering Journal as well with papers speaking to software development complexities . Guide the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge - speaks to topics like Product road maps are essential for software intensive systems that have many releases of software and capability upgrades.

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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. Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM). IEEE Software, March-April 2009, pp.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . IEEE Software, March-April 2009, pp.

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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. 504, Center for Systems and Software Engineering, University of Southern California, 2012.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In the project domain, an estimate is a calculated approximation of some desired measurement. This is usually a cost, a completion date, a performance measure used in a closed loop control system to keep the project GREEN while delivering the needed Capabilities to produce the Value for the customer at the needed time for the needed cost.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Project Performance Management.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21. 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.

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Herding Cats

MAY 12, 2018

This quote is typically the basis of proposing agile software development over traditional software development. Ranging from embedded flight control systems for winged vehicles to orbiting spacecraft, to Software Intensive System of Systems from industrial, business, and financial systems.

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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.

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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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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. Agile Risk Management and DSDM Pocketbook , Alan Moran, IARM. Agile Risk Management and Scrum , Alan Moran, Institute for Agile Risk Management, 2014.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Agile: A project management methodology that focuses on delivering work in an iterative fashion. The agile approach is usually used in software projects where the scope is not always known and adaptability is prioritized. While it's mostly used for software projects, it can also be used for non-software projects.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Agile Project Management. Project Management Software & Tools. 19% say Agile techniques. Agile Project Management. 38% of organizations report using agile frequently. [6]. 75% of highly agile organizations met their goals/business intent, 65% finished on time, and 67% finished within budget. Other – 6%.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

So when you hear an agile purest talking about the I in Invest, ask is there is any business process loops, interdependencies between systems compoenents, externalities. There is no way out of this for any non-trivial software development project. Allen School of Computer Science Software Engineering Course .

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

So when you hear an agile purest talking about the I in Invest, ask is there is any business process loops, interdependencies between systems compoenents, externalities. There is no way out of this for any non-trivial software development project. Allen School of Computer Science Software Engineering Course .

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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. Jeff, a big MPUG welcome back.

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