Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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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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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 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. Software-intensive systems include: . Related articles.

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MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of John Owen’s showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, presented by Barbecana.

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MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of John Owen’s showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, presented by Barbecana.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate.

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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

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. Don't assume, Estimate. How can you assess the strategy without making estimates of the impact of the outcome of the hypothesis? First a principle.

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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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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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nTask

AUGUST 18, 2019

The following write-up is not a detailed analysis, but it is more than enough to give you a gist of what PERT is. The time for each task is calculated by estimating three durations: Optimistic, Realistic and Pessimistic. The duration estimates range from the best case to the worst case and assume that these estimates are accurate.

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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. Conduct Schedule Risk Analysis. These describe the increasing maturity of the project's artifacts. But here's how they are connected. Capture All Activities. Be an adult and provide margin for all work.

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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

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. Of course not.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

The list of jobs that are likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence is longer and includes mostly the ones involving mechanical actions and information analysis. Software developer. Of course, AI will have a significant impact on software development. There have been attempts to write a code by AI.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Much of the discussion around project management processes, especially around agile, and most especially around the misconceptions of Estimating as espoused by the #NoEstimates advocates, starts with the misuse of reductive reasons based on single factor analysis. Here's how it goes.

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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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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

There are some examples of the topics to be discussed at the conference: Project organization, Project management plan, Management information system, Construction phase, Post-construction phase, Risk analysis and management in construction, Planning and scheduling, and many others. Pricing: starting from 250 EUR.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 3, 2017

Alistair Cockburn's talk on 21st Century Software development. . Pay attention the hoax of #Noestimates and most major misunderstandings of the Agile Manifesto and the 12 Principle.

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

Establish project governance: Project charter templates help to identify key stakeholders and team members involved in the project, e.g., project sponsors, project manager, and team lead, indicating who is responsible for specific tasks and who has the authority to make decisions. This includes personnel, equipment, and funding.

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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 ? As more details get developed, the Cone converges to the actual value. Steve McConnell.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Deciding how much precision and accuracy is needed for a credible estimate is critical to the success of that decision.

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Planio

JANUARY 16, 2023

Lay your cards out by creating a solid governance structure. 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 stakeholder analysis picture by leading the team through a stakeholder identification workshop.

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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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. Is this normal?

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Prepare a Business Case : Outline the reasons for undertaking the project, including the estimated costs, timelines, benefits, and risks involved. This should include cost estimates, resource availability, and technology assessments. PRINCE2 is widely used in the UK government.

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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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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We did an extensive analysis of various factors that influence waterfall project management. This helped us to simplify how nTask project management software can be used for solving such issues. What Dr. Royce was describing was a flawed model for software development as he argued for a model with multiple iterations or runs.

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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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. For software development starts with. This solution is called Software Engineering.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

The list of jobs that are likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence is longer and includes mostly the ones involving mechanical actions and information analysis. Software developer. Of course, AI will have a significant impact on software development. There have been attempts to write a code by AI.

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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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. And, my customer is equally as clueless about the need to estimate as I am. Probably not. .

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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.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.

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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

MARCH 19, 2017

But today I sat through an out brief from a government auditing agency on a $10B program and one of my colleagues made this statement. This is a serious mistake unless we have done the Root Cause Analysis of the observed problem. Some self-proclaimed thought leader pontificates on what is wrong with the software industry.

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