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. References below. .

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

You winged the entire project execution process, and now the theory of it all is taking a toll on you. . An assumption in project management refers to assuming about possible factors or situations that may occur in the project planning process that it may actually happen. Performance Measurement Baseline. PEST Analysis.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

Practices and Process are Fads. A Process is a series of steps and decisions involved in the way work is completed. Here's my version in the form of questions that when answered form the foundation for the Practices and Processes. What does Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers?

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It is applied through the application of systems engineering processes within a managed lifecycle working with a number of other management, engineering, and specialist disciplines. While traditionally applied to product development, systems engineering can also be applied to service and enterprise systems. The what of the project.

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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. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. This is a common problem in low maturity development organizations.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2017

The common definition of the Definition of Done in agile software development is (mostly from the Scrum Alliance and other official Scrum sites): A simple list of activities (coding, comments, unit testing, integration, release notes, design documents, etc.) Do they characterize the major drivers of performance?

Software Review 28

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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. PP&C lives in the domain of Project Management and Controls, which is a Technical Management Processes of ISO 15288. Box, Willaim G.

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Then there is some analysis. Landmark’s measure of success over these three years had much more to do with customer satisfaction and market share than with meeting knowingly aggressive targets. In all software development businesses, showing up late and over budget has a direct impact on the bottom line. . 37–48, 2007.

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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. Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . Resources. [1]

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM).

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

Specific actions to reduce the Episuncertaintiesnaties and Margin to handle the Aleatory uncertainies are part of any good project management process. . The Cone of Uncertainty,” Stephen Gryphon, Phillippe Kruchten, and Steve McConnell, Letters, IEEE Software , 23 (5) 2006, pp 8?10. 37–48, 2007.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . Resources. [1] Air Force. [4]

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

With this paradigm we have logically connected project management processes with Control System processesIf the variances, created by uncertainty going outside the UCL and LCL. This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM). The processes is an engineering discipline.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

The uncertainty is always there, it doesn't go away with specific actions in specific domains, or with the use of any tools, processes, or practices. This includes the Measures of Effectiveness (MoE), Measures of Performance (MoP), Key Performance Parameters (KPP), and Technical Performance Measures (TPM) of the deliverables.

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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

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Management Processes. Planning and Scheduling (#PS). Agile Project Management (#APM).

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Acceptance Test: A process through which a project's end users run through the project to identify any potential issues before it can be formally accepted. Allocation describes the process for assigning resources for different project activities in the most efficient way possible. Allocation: Another term for Resource Allocation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

It covered identifying requirements, interconnecting tasks, resources, planned values, actual values, baselines, performance measures, forecast techniques and timesheets. A tiny snapshot of the analysis that the different software tools went through. The Future: Software Supporting Faster and Iterative Working.

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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. probably not.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

All making things smaller dos is show that you're late, over budget, and what you're building (Technical Performance Measures) doesn't work faster. Probabilistic Risk Analysis: Foundations and Methods , Tim Bedford and Roger Cooke, Cambridge University Press, 2009. Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice , Jean?Paul

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In software development, those managing the project have some understanding the market forces (from their marketing departments), the technology (from their engineering department), and how to manage in the presence of Aleatory and Epistemic risk (the managers running a successful firm). Software projects are non-ergodic.

Software Review 34

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Having a knowledge transfer process in place boosts the chance of project success by over 20%. [6]. More than 90% of organizations perform some type of project postmortem or closeout retrospective. [9]. Most Popular Agile Tools and Processes: Scrum – 43%. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. 3% use PRINCE2. [4].

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. Jeff: Here are our process groups.

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