Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis. Showing up late and over budget does not produce the needed Value.

Process 45

Process Estimate Software Developers Software Development 45

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.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. I guess when the software is created straight out of the mind of the developer with no thought to the consequences of each decision made during the development.

Software Developers 39

Software Developers Software Development Engineering Software 39

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Let's start with the obvious.

Estimate 37

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . So how do we get ±10% accuracy?

Estimate 42

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

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.

Performance Measurement 52

Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Governance 52

MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

And then determine if the proposed change can be accommodated within the fiscal and technical resources of the budget? Performing requirements traceability analysis is an important part of software engineering. They are generally going to be reviewed as requested by a governing body, for impact on the in process work.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Controlling Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Estimate Software Engineering 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

In our domain, Root Cause Analysis is mandated before ANY suggested change for improvement, prevention, or corrective actions are taken. If the parameter of interest is not being reduced as needed, go find out why and fix it, or you'll be late, over budget, and the technical outcome unacceptable. Our RCA method is the Apollo Method.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 1] Systems Engineering Measurement Primer, INCOSE. [2] 2] System Analysis, Design, and Development Concepts, Principles, and Practices, Charles Wasson, John Wiley & Sons. [3] 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 1] Systems Engineering Measurement Primer, INCOSE. [2] 2] System Analysis, Design, and Development Concepts, Principles, and Practices, Charles Wasson, John Wiley & Sons. [3] 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 1] Systems Engineering Measurement Primer, INCOSE. [2] 2] System Analysis, Design, and Development Concepts, Principles, and Practices, Charles Wasson, John Wiley & Sons. [3] 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

instrumentation to facilitate analysis and correction of production issues. The build should include style checking, linting, and static code analysis in addition to compiling, linking, and low-level automated checking. The same rule of thumb applies to other governance reviews, as well. automated fraud detection. They balked.

Software Review 57

Software Review Software Technical Review Development Team Review 57