The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Feature Driven Development (FDD) is an agile methodology specifically applied to software development. This post explores what FDD is, FDD best practices, implications of FDD for strategy, and how FDD is implemented with other agile methods while managing a project. What Is the Agile Feature-driven Development Methodology?

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. The reason for this surge in popularity is quite understandable, the majority of projects benefit when managed using lean concepts promoted by Agile project management methodology.

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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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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used in the software development and IT industry for the past sixteen years, but recently it has gained wide acceptance by many number of industries and organizations. But the tide is turning and Agile is gaining wide acceptance as a valid process for many projects.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Enter the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), the unsung hero of the digital age. This comprehensive article will delve into the world of SREs, exploring their role, responsibilities, importance in business operations, the intersection of software engineering and systems administration, and the future trends shaping this crucial field.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

There is a better way than staggered iterations for delivery that will keep you on the path to agility. Staggered iterations lead to more technical debt and lower quality software. I have seen many companies that are trying to move towards greater agility get trapped in the past by creating artificial silos based on skills.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 9, 2017

Risk is everywhere on projects. This risk comes from two types of uncertainty. The idea of risk and its management and handling is a critical success factor for all software development. Peter Drucker (1975) Management (From The Principles of Software Engineering , Chapter 6, Tom Glib, 1988). .

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

Instead, anyone can make the shift with a bit of research and an action plan. While most technical project managers aren’t expected to code (and most haven’t done serious development work in years), they have the background to make technical decisions, understand tradeoffs, and spot risks that a typical project manager might miss.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Our knowledge of this world - the planned and actual behaviors of the project. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. Dealing with Aleatory (irreducible) uncertainty and the resulting risk requires we have margin.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 16, 2022

While most PMOs and portfolio managers choose Project Online for enhanced resource planning and portfolio monitoring, teams that use agile tools can get a lot of value from Azure DevOps. It provides a collaborative culture and methods that bring together software engineers, project managers, and contributors.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Create a Solid Project Plan and Clear Business Case. Creating a clear business case and a critical path that designs your plans can help you plan well. Being attentive to the needs of your sponsor from the very beginning of your project also enhances the effectiveness of planning: “What is the main cause for project failure?

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

If the project estimate is NOT being reduced in some manner - inside the Cone's Upper and Lower bounds, then it is not likely the project will be able to stay on plan. Little [8] makes the claim that agile methods don't follow the Cone - that is the uncertainty doesn't reduce as the project proceeds. IT Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. While some have publication dates that may seem old, the principles in these books are immutable, even for agile projects. Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 1, 2016

Having spent years at Expedia working to make travel booking technology faster and more scalable, Charles and I witnessed first-hand how difficult it was for the all of the teams within Expedia to plan and execute work accurately. The data within the project plan was virtually useless because it was static. See how we do it.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

These systems are engineered with a variety of development methods. Ranging from traditional to agile and combinations in between. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. This uncertainty creates risk, which can be reduced through specific actions. (2) Planning the next actions.

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Leading Agile

MAY 25, 2023

In Agile, you only get the full benefits of Scrum and SAFe when certain conditions are met in the organization. People will often break the methodology or the framework instead of changing the org design and sacrificing their ability to be truly Agile. The Preconditions for Agile Hey everybody, welcome to our little video recording.

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Stepping Into Project Management

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

If this help you find a job you love, that makes it all worthwhile. So, here are a few: Project Manager (United Health Group)- Hyderabad (India) Project Manager – Job No.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Please send those over at any time using the chat question box on the “go to webinar” control panel where we do plan to answer those questions for you throughout the session today. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. Is it Fletcher? Is it Eric?

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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.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

These systems are engineered with a variety of development methods. Ranging from traditional to agile and combinations in between. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do.

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Planio

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Organize “show and tells” for engineers to show off what they’ve been building. Plan “mini meetups” to bring your remote team together virtually. Hire too early and you run the risk of not being prepared and bringing on an expensive new teammate without the processes to make sure they’re successful (or even enough to do!).

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development.

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Workzone

JANUARY 18, 2023

You can re-arrange the pieces to make them fit to your whims, or project plans that is. It’s specifically built for technicl creatives—such as game developers, UX designers and software engineers. It includes an advanced user experience with innovative time tracking to plan, log and get an overview of hours.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Available with the Business, Enterprise, and Wrike for Marketers plans, Wrike Resource gives managers the visibility and flexibility they need to manage operating expenditures, balance team workloads, and optimize organization-wide performance. Asana provides unlimited storage (100MB per file) to all users, regardless of the pricing plan.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

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. When might we finish with the planned work? What might it cost to finish the planned work?

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 13, 2018

This is the same paradigm of Agile software development where responding to change over following the plan is part of the original manifesto. Managing Requirements for Business Value," John Favaro, IEEE Software , March/April 2002. Aligning Software Investment Decisions with the Markets ," Hakan Erdogmus. "

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

Phases in Software Development. Here are some common phases of the software development: Project Initiation. Each organization develops a software development life cycle that suits its needs. But quite often you will notice that even plan-driven life cycle will have iterations and increments. Concept Development.

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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. . This is the value at risk discussion. For example in "Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?" Systems Thinking, System Engineering, and Systems Management. Related articles.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We do plan to answer your questions throughout the session today. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. Individual contributor team, lead section, lead project manager, program manager, director of engineering.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

s webinar, Use Agile Project Management with MS Project, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Welcome to Use Agile Project Management with MS Project. He also goes by Jim and he is super excited to be with him, our Agile expert for the session. He’s our Agile certified expert today.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

1] This is the foundation of Capabilities Based Planning, The Capabilities must be defines before the Requirements are elicited. 1] Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, [link] . [2] 3] Capability-Based Planning , Chapter 32 TOGAF 9.1, IT Risk Management. George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra. [1]

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The CoU is a build-to paradigm, where measures of the program's performance cumulative to date is used to inform the risk for future performance. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , 57 (4), pp. Using NESMA Function Point Analysis in an Agile Context," Roel van Rijswijck, Thesis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.

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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. . IT Risk Management. They use these datasets to support some position. Deadlines Always Matter.

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