Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. This domain has turned into the S oftware Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) paradigm that dominates software development activities today. In our current SISoS world we call this a Unicorn Solution. .

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

Applications of Digital Project Management Skills IT and Software Development - Managing software projects, including updates and releases, requires acute data analysis and effective coordination of development teams.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

Meeting project deadlines in time, budget, and scope. . Developing a similar vision of what’s needed to stay on track. Meet project deadlines effortlessly in the time and budget. Development or Implementation. Highly accurate timelines and budgets as results. Bringing together teams and clients.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Be it monitoring and control, collaboration, stakeholders onboarding, change management, and governance methods, the problems only keep increasing. Working with lean agile principles helps the SAFe Agilist in building the Agile Portfolio management with lean budgeting. Efficient and Optimized Flow of Kanban Solutions. Conclusion.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 21, 2024

Lean may also combined with software development tools and techniques. Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) DSDM is an agile project delivery framework that integrates schedule and budget constraints, offering a comprehensive foundation for both planning and executing projects.

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

A project charter is a brief, formal document outlining the scope, objectives, budget, and stakeholders of a project. Baseline the project: The project charter establishes a baseline for the project scope, budget, timeline, and desired outcomes, keeping everyone working within set parameters to hit the most important metrics.

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nTask

JULY 5, 2019

As far as RUP is concerned, it is a framework for software development projects. Researchers have also developed AUP; Agile Unified Process , which is a different form of RUP. They may seem a lot for software developers to go through, but this method is easier than conventional RUP tactics. AUP has 7 categories.

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Key Takeaways Executing a Project : The execution phase is critical in project management for transforming plans into tangible deliverables, efficiently utilizing project resources, ensuring customer/client satisfaction on time, within budget and scope, and meeting quality expectations. Assuring the quality of deliverables.

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PM Basics

DECEMBER 23, 2022

For example, government organizations or bodies that set standards related to your project. . For example, the lead engineer in your software development project or the top salesperson bringing in clients and cash hand-over-fist. These stakeholders may be regulatory agencies, NGOs, politicians, and government bodies.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

However, without proper organization and analysis, this data can be overwhelming and difficult to utilize effectively. How Data Drives Decision Making Data-driven decision making is the practice of basing decisions on objective analysis and data insights rather than intuition or gut feelings. What is a KPI Dashboard?

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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

APRIL 14, 2018

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. For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Microeconomics .

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2017

Governance principles provide guidance to institutionalize a process, including its continued assessment and evolution over time in support of the tangible system benefits. The core concept of Capabilities Based development is to focus on the delivery of value. This method involves a functional analysis of operational requirements.

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MPUG

APRIL 15, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Lead Course Developer 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 cybersecurity. Organizational governance systems they see that as important.

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Workzone

JANUARY 5, 2021

Whenever you reprioritize the tasks in a project, or your available resources change, this software will automatically update the task and project completion dates across your whole portfolio. Another nifty feature is the integrated time and budget tracking, making it easy to keep on budget. Pricing: $69/user/month. user/month.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

The Effectiveness of Risk Management: An Analysis of Project Risk Planning Across Industries and Countries,” Ofer Zwikael and Mark Ahn, Risk Analysis , Vol. Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk, and Rationality,” Paul Slovic, Melissa L. Risk Analysis and Management,” Lester B.

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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. Risk Analysis and Management,” Lester B.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

This is a recurring theme of #NoEstimates it's a waste to me the developer, I'd rather be coding , I'm not good at estimating , I see no value in my making estimating when you're just going to use them against me when I'm late and over budget. This notion shows that governance is not considered a requirement for the business.

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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. OMB A-11 Part 7.

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Wrike

JANUARY 15, 2019

Scrum, originally created for software developers, is based around time-limited work periods, called sprints, which normally last around 2 weeks. Scrum methodology is often budget-friendly due to its simplicity. If governance is too strict, the entire project can fail. staffpicks]. What is a Scrum Board?

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

There are not specific to Agile Software Development. You're late and over budget before you start, and have lowered the probability of technical success. Conduct Schedule Risk Analysis. The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. These describe the increasing maturity of the project's artifacts.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering provides an approach to making the decision about what's in the ConOps and its format based on some Systems Engineering analysis of criteria: Program risks - reducible and irreducible uncertainties that create these risks. Provide the basis for computation of system capacity.

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Wrike

MAY 21, 2021

Or they lack data analysis experience. It’s also key for certain government agencies and researchers in nearly any discipline. So with a little forecasting, businesses can reliably stay within budget by eliminating what might otherwise be fixed expenses. The first is a lack of specialization.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. This is a serious mistake for any non-trivial project or product that operates in the presence of uncertainty, deadlines, not-t-exceed budgets, and mandatory sets of capabilities that are produced in exchange for money.

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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. This is a common problem in low maturity development organizations. This extended post covers. Our RCA method is the Apollo Method.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Orientation : the analysis and synthesis of data to form one’s current perspective. This is a good starting point for not only Scrum and other agile methods, that can be used to test the validity of any method suggested to replace or augment the current agile software development processes. Related articles. Doing the Math.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

When you hear I have data that shows the uncertainty doesn't reduce , then that project is out of control and will be late, over budget, and likely not perform to the needed effectiveness and performance parameters. Economics of Software Development. Herding Cats: Economics of Software Development.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

2] System Analysis, Design, and Development Concepts, Principles, and Practices, Charles Wasson, John Wiley & Sons. [3] Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management, Auer-bach, 2006. [15]Jorgensen, Software Development Effort Estimation: Formal Models or Expert Judgment?” Software Eng., Resources. [1]

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

2] System Analysis, Design, and Development Concepts, Principles, and Practices, Charles Wasson, John Wiley & Sons. [3] Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management, Auer-bach, 2006. [15]Jorgensen, Software Development Effort Estimation: Formal Models or Expert Judgment?” Software Eng., Resources. [1]

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nTask

JULY 5, 2021

When you consider a successful project, not only do you look at the product that was delivered but you also want to consider the budget as well as ensuring that your project is completed within schedule. IT and Software Development teams. Product development teams. Government teams. Competitive analysis.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Using the chosen project management process to track progress and budget. This stage involves collaboration with all the different project stakeholders as well as undertaking competitive analysis, and collecting user and customer feedback. Making sure that projects align with the overall business strategy and goals.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

2] System Analysis, Design, and Development Concepts, Principles, and Practices, Charles Wasson, John Wiley & Sons. [3] Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management, Auer-bach, 2006. [15]Jorgensen, Software Development Effort Estimation: Formal Models or Expert Judgment?” Software Eng., Resources. [1]

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Product Development (#ProdDev). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Six Business System Rule - defines the assessment of the integrated business systems for Federal procurement and their integrity in providing information to the Government contracting office. . Strategy (#Strategy).

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Planio

JANUARY 16, 2023

Lay your cards out by creating a solid governance structure. Give yourself some budget breathing room. Unlike a software developer, graphic designer, or accountant, your job isn't to do the doing , your job is to ensure the doing gets done. Get to know your team and what motivates them. Plan in an Agile way.

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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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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

When you hear I have data that shows the uncertainty (or any other needed attribute) doesn't reduce , then that project is out of control and will be late, over budget, and likely not perform to the needed effectiveness and performance parameters. Economics of Software Development. Related articles. Of Course We Can!

Technical Review 28

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Planio

JANUARY 29, 2024

Stakeholder identification, analysis, and management are crucial to getting the right people in your process mapping team. Check out our guide to stakeholder analysis for more info. Some tips to help: Know who your process’ key stakeholders are. Bring in both external and internal team members. Ready to start mapping your processes?

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