Herding Cats

JUNE 18, 2017

Can you make a decision without an estimate? There are NO means of making a credible decision in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of that decision. Let's look at each of these from the point of view of Managerial Finance and Economics of Decision Making the presence of Uncertainty. First a principle.

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Planio

APRIL 22, 2024

According to some estimates , PMs spend 90% of their time communicating with team members, sponsors, and stakeholders. Whether it’s a business case, project plan, or market analysis, an executive summary is a great way to get the project’s most important information across quickly and clearly. Project managers are born communicators.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A rough order of magnitude estimate, also known as ROM, is an estimation of a project’s level of effort and cost to complete. ROM estimates take place early in a project life cycle and guide strategy and planning choices. Generally, it’s used for estimating a project budget that doesn’t have a lot of detail.

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Scoro

JULY 13, 2021

Each task is depicted as a horizontal bar (usually color-coded), the length of which is the task’s estimated duration. The first real-time Gantt chart from Scoro Software. Software development. Software development typically has the following: Project management activities. Requirements analysis.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Performing qualitative risk analysis - prioritizes risks based on their probability and impact of occurrence. Performance quantitative risk analysis - numerically estimates the effects of risk on project objectives. In the presence of these uncertainties, estimates must be made of all aspects of the risk management process.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. 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. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. There are not specific to Agile Software Development. Again, this is the basis of Managerial Finance. Conduct Schedule Risk Analysis. These describe the increasing maturity of the project's artifacts. But here's how they are connected.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. There is no discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. illities are a waste.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The conjecture that we can make decisions in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impacts of those decisions is without any principles that can be tested beyond personal anecdotes of I know people who spend other peoples money without providing estimates. Not a group that likes to get questions, by the way.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 8, 2017

When we hear that the next big thing in agile is Not Estimating, let's look to see how those 12 Principles can be applied without those estimates? . How estimates help implement these principles. Without estimates what is missing. This is basic managerial finance when spending other people’s money.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. This stage involves collaboration with all the different project stakeholders as well as undertaking competitive analysis, and collecting user and customer feedback.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? An estimate is. It's a fallacy.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Though the technology is still being developed, it has numerous applications in our every-day life: it’s widely used in pharmaceutical and healthcare industry (its recent breakthrough was the development of covid-19 vaccine), finance, manufacturing, automotive industry, etc. . Software developer.

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Planio

JANUARY 16, 2023

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. Then, break down the work required to achieve your scope and objectives, and use project estimating techniques to work out how long those tasks will take you. No project is free.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Have you done a Root Cause Analysis? Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. The supposed evidence in the presentation, that estimating "does not work" starts with the Chaos Report.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 12, 2021

Healthcare project manager; Finance project manager; Insurance project manager; Utility project manager, Legal project manager. As, for example, an IT project manager orchestrates IT projects and leads corresponding teams in their software development efforts. You can guess their main focus of work by their titles.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 25, 2016

There's another rash of Twitter posters supporting the conjecture that decisions can be made about how to spend other people's money without estimating the impact and outcome of that decision. Decision Analysis for the Professional. Software development decision making is a well studied subset of that field.

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Leading Answers

MAY 1, 2020

For example, a project I worked on to develop and roll out a custom GPS routing solution for truck drivers used an agile approach for the software development—and a largely predictive approach for scheduling the equipment install in the trucks and training the drivers. Does it include finance, HR and sales?

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Though the technology is still being developed, it has numerous applications in our every-day life: it’s widely used in pharmaceutical and healthcare industry (its recent breakthrough was the development of covid-19 vaccine), finance, manufacturing, automotive industry, etc. . Software developer.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. Is this normal?

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Of course, all three of these are operating in the presence of uncertainty and therefore require estimates to be made. Estimates of the aleatory and epistemic uncertainties that create risk to the delivered Value need to be handled. All three pieces of information are needed.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. For software development starts with. maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help. Almost impossible?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and business management. Have you done a Root Cause Analysis? If you haven't encountered the notion of Root Cause Analysis, start with the Apollo Root Cause Analysis method. Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Not likely.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. These are classic examples from an author who is either unskilled, untrained, and inexperienced in estimating software development. I suspect the latter. .

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Finucane, Ellen Peters, and Donald MacGregor, Risk Analysis , Vol.24, reducible and irreducible ?

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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. requires making estimates) ? 3, March 2002.

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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. Don't buy it. Related articles.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Estimated Project-Oriented Job Openings 2010-2020: . Popularity by Industry: Finance – 87%. Portfolio analysis, project selection, & prioritization – 65%. Finance – 93%. Inadequate cost estimates – 29%. Inaccurate task time estimate – 27%. 8,153,340. . 3,975,650. . 2,348,830. . 387,560. .

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

And not only like the CIOs are interested but the CEOs are interested, and the finance people are interested in the product, people are interested in the market, there’s a lot of stuff that’s interested. We typically want to have those stories estimated, right? They understand the acceptance criteria. I have a funny story.

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Paymo App

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Whether you’re a freelance designer, software developer, blogger, writer, or marketer, you’ll come across the need to use a diversity of tools to solve your problems. unlimited invoices and estimates. Cons: complex interface requires software development skills or knowledge. quick text analysis.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

And please take note that we have resources in here, we have estimated work, we have duration, we have some completed tasks. Then there’s a best practice analysis and it’s a very basic one where we have remaining work with tasks that are in the history, so these should have been completed but they haven’t been completed.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Specific project needs: If you have to run a lengthy marketing campaign, then you’ll probably want to track several metrics along the way, so a project planning tool without much scope for data visualization and analysis won’t serve you. month Business – $11.90/month month Platform – $23.90/month

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BeeWits

JULY 3, 2018

Gantt Chart – again, a view for project managers which allows the responsible persons for this project to estimate the start and end, the full timeline of the project. While is software development this is called Issue Tracking, you’ll find that this is also required in most other project types. Workload management.

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