Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

This first post is a follow-on from the posts Root Cause of Project Failure , Root Cause Analysis , Discovering the Root Cause - The 5 Whys , T urning Editorials into Root Cause Analysis , Observation Issues and Root Cause Analysis , Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Suggested Fix Can Be Effective. References .

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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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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2022

For this analysis, we use the evaluations of 857 stakeholders for 241 teams. For this, we used a simple statistical technique called multiple regression analysis. Each dot represents a team: A scatterplot and the results from a regression analysis may not be intuitive for many readers, especially those not familiar with statistics.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 30, 2018

This document is all but unknown in the Enterprise IT domain and completely unknown in the agile software development world. This missing document is a root cause of many failures in tradition and agile software development. Capabilities-Based Engineering Analysis (CBEA), Mike Webb, MITRE Corporation.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Presentations and Briefings. An Introduction to IMP/IMS , 17 Oct 2004.

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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. Erdem Arikan, 20 th Annual ARCOM Conference , 1?3

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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. Erdem Arikan, 20 th Annual ARCOM Conference , 1?3

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

International Institute for Learning

JUNE 22, 2022

There are many techniques such as root cause analysis, fishbone diagram, the five why’s, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and others. Tactec guides are our Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultants, Coaches and Senior Team Leads (SCRUM Master+) to facilitate experimentation and innovation.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

“Using the Agile Methodology to Mitigate the Risks of Highly Adaptive Projects,” Dana Roberson and Mary Anne Herndon, 10 th Annual CMMI Technology Conference And User Group , November 5 – 8, 2012, Denver, CO. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E.

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PM Basics

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

It comes from my practical experience working on software development projects. Qualitative Risk Analysis. Optional) Quantitative Risk Analysis. It’s acceptable to perform risk analysis in batches at a later date. Requirements Analysis. Analysis of Work Breakdown Structure. Monitoring Risks.

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Risk Management Risk Planning Technical Review 105

Agilemania

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For instance, “Chris Jordan, 32, CEO, at a software development organization” . In a software development project, more than one persona is required. Use them Everywhere : You can use the agile persona from marketing to software development almost anywhere. The Bottom Line. Author's Bio.

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International Institute for Learning

JUNE 22, 2022

They are on video or conference calls from morning until evening. There was no Wi-Fi, Internet speeds were a fraction of today’s, video conferences were in dedicated facilities, and Lotus Notes was the primary collaborative platform. At what point does the analysis no longer yield actionable information? By Alan Zucker.

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Technical Review Software Review Lean PMI 52

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

The paper Agile Base Patterns in the Agile Canon , Daniel R Greening, 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences is an important contribution to the discussion of agile at scale in organizations beyond 5 developers at the table with their customer. Root Cause Analysis [5]. Static analysis - dependency mapping.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 1, 2016

A deeper analysis of Agile performance metrics will have to wait until another day! This is my ‘go to’ book for understanding agile, although it is written predominately with a software development environment in mind. Find out more about Eylean, a Scrum and Kanban desktop software tool, on their website: [link].

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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 ? A Probabilistic Method for Predicting Software Code Growth," Michael Ross, Journal of Cost Analysis and Parametrics 4:127-147, 2011. "10

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Redbooth

MARCH 13, 2018

And in 2001, a group of software developers met in Utah and published the Agile Manifesto. While mechanical engineering in the early 1900s required more rigid scheduling, software developers today need more flexibility and immediate feedback. Over the course of the 20th century, project management evolved as a discipline.

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Critical Chain Technical Review Software Review 2001 78

Digite

MARCH 1, 2017

However, I had not seen Kanban being applied to software development, project management, etc. Around the same time, I was fortunate enough get to attend the Lean Kanban India 2016 conference (LKIN) and listening to David J Anderson and other thought-leaders. Demand Analysis. That is when I heard the name of “Kanban”.

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Software Review Lean Cadence Engineering 60

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 25, 2024

Project and product management includes a comprehensive approach, defining product requirements, conducting market analysis, managing product life cycles, and prioritizing key features; these steps are necessary for maximizing customer satisfaction, increasing market share, and securing a competitive advantage.

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Sustainability Development Team Review Innovation 2024 52

Herding Cats

JUNE 25, 2016

Decision Analysis for the Professional. There are 100's more books, papers, conference proceedings on the topic of decision making in the presence of uncertanty. Software development decision making is a well studied subset of that field. Here's a starting point to learn that simply not true .

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Peot, Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1992). [5] 7] "Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Think Clearly, act Decisively and Feel Confident - Unilever's Story," Sven Roden, 2009 Palisade Conference, Risk Analysis, Applications, and Training, 21-22 October 2009. .

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

For example, consider a software development project where the project lead encourages regular feedback from the development team. This includes proficiency in project management software, data analysis tools, and collaborative platforms.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Leadership 36

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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EasyProjects

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Along with the identified risks, a good project status report should also contain their qualitative analysis, potential project objectives, cost and schedule impact, and proposed mitigation strategies. Gone are the days of those wasteful project status conference calls with delays from either side. Deliverables. Client Communications.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 18, 2017

There is a posted question at an agile conference. Herding Cats: Risk Management for Agile Software Development Projects. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Can you make a decision without an estimate? This type of fallacy is common. . First a principle. Root Cause of Project Failure.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The book that contains that paper and provides the specific approach to modeling the future is Statistics for Experimenters: An Introduction to Design, Data Analysis, and Model Building , Georg E. Performance Analysis and Prediction . Regression Analysis by Example , Samprit Chatterjee and Ali S. Box, Willaim G.

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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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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Economics is a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Making changes late in the development cycle has significant impacts on the verification and validation of the system no matter the software development method. .

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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.

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Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Software Governance 28

Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Willing to attend a project management conference in 2020? The list of international events presented in this paper involves the ones covering not only project and portfolio management challenges but also relevant topics of construction, engineering, product development, and more. 2020 Project Management Conferences in Austria.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Willing to attend a project management conference in 2020? The list of international events presented in this paper involves the ones covering not only project and portfolio management challenges but also relevant topics of construction, engineering, product development, and more. 2020 Project Management Conferences in Austria .

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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., Software Eng.,

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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., Software Eng.,

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Scrum.org

JUNE 27, 2022

I think this is a software development question, for the persons involved in software development. In software development, they have these kinds of steps of how the work gets done. And if you’re not in software, you might also have some kind of workflow. You might do some analysis on that.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

Since many 2020 conferences have been cancelled, probably you miss networking and would like to enrich and share your occupational knowledge. Biggest Online Project Management Conferences in 2021. Read further to choose the events that fit your goals and interests. . Check out the website to learn more. Pricing: starting from 250 EUR.

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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., Software Eng.,

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Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

In my organization, LeadingAgile, I have a software development team, I have zero need for predictability, like zero need for predictability. So Tim was talking about our Elevate Agile conferences coming up. And then the result of the analysis and design comes down to your Scrum teams, right, and user stories.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Continuous Development: Continuous development entails software planning and coding. The entire development process is divided into smaller development cycles. This method makes it easy for the DevOps team to speed up the software development process in general. . Conclusion. Author's Bio.

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