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 ? This variation can be explained by the fact that initial concepts do not describe the final software system accurate enough.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For instance, an individual having a software engineering degree might not be a great fit for a customer service role. Top tip: Using data analysis-based hiring tools and skills assessments in hiring will enhance the accuracy of matching candidates to job roles. Here’s an example of talent or skills gap analysis.

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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. Start here.

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Teamweek

JUNE 13, 2023

You use it to outline the requirements of the candidate and by using it, you comply with your government’s labor laws. Example: hiring a software engineer Without having a candidate profile, recruiting an engineer could take much longer and result in a candidate that does not tick all the boxes.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. Sizing Challenges," Victor Fuster & Taylor Putnam-Majarian, Software and IT-CASR Proceedings , 22-24 August 2017. Newnes, Linda B., Mileham, Antony R.,

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. We engineers should always keep in mind that software development is usually one part of many others inside the company.

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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. Software development is Micro, not Macro.

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Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

This is called Software Engineering Economics. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Knowing the probabilistic behaviours of all three of these random variables - Value, Time needed to produce the Value, and Cost to produce the Value is required for any decision to be made in the presence of uncertainty.

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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

This was my starting point for becoming a software engineer rather than a physicist, by the way. . Root Cause Analysis is a powerful tool for finding the cause of an observed symptom. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. So here's the point. No answer, ignore that conjecture. Related articles.

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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

MARCH 9, 2017

My early metrics book, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation (Prentice Hall/Yourdon Press, 1982) , played a role in the way many budding software engineers quantified work and planned their projects. […] The book’s most quoted line is its first sentence: “You can’t control what you can’t measure.”

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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. In our domain, Root Cause Analysis is mandated before ANY suggested change for improvement, prevention, or corrective actions are taken.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Economics of Software Development. Herding Cats: Economics of Software Development. The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile. Prentice-Hall, 1981. The poster below is from Steve McConnell's site and makes several things clear.

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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. Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. Software engineering economics." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Economics of Software Development. Herding Cats: Economics of Software Development. The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile. Prentice-Hall, 1981. The poster below is from Steve McConnell's site and makes several things clear.

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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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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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Teamweek

AUGUST 7, 2023

With software development being the world’s most in-demand profession in 2023, tech companies and every technical recruiter on planet Earth are vying for their attention. TL;DR – Key Takeaways Developers specialise in creating and maintaining software applications and projects. Let’s find out. What does a developer do?

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

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. The necessary updates to the impacted business analysis deliverables are made. What decisions could be made?

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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. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments. For software development starts with.

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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. And money in the bank is what software development is about. There's only so much we can predict up front.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Even the engineers, hardware engineer, software engineer, mechanical engineer. Now you’re thinking, how about mechanical engineer I just said. Agile has been- they are in software industry primarily. Here under Agile analysis and design, I have product roadmap user stories, more of it.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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 ‒ Steve McConnell. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

One of the big benefits of software over hardware is that it’s supposed to be easy to change. But in today’s world, most companies have accidentally built large, monolithic software applications that have become harder than most hardware. Video Transcript Chris Beale In traditional software development.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

An unattended software delivery pipeline frees technical staff to spend more time on value-add activities rather than tediously performing repetitive tasks by hand, such as. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Building software. Automate why?

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