Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create risk to the success of the project. The Programmatic Management of the project.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis. Related articles. IT Risk Management.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

We are a project management consulting company in the Baltimore Washington area. Background myself, I’ve been doing project program, PMO management for going on, I guess, 30 years now. By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. And in project management terminology, we must set the baseline.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In this article, we’ll explore what it’s like to hire in a hyper-growth startup before helping you build your very own kickass hiring process. . Startups are High Risk – Objectively, start-up businesses are risky places to be. As such, you’ll be expected to hire everyone from software engineers to customer success managers.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute (in this post, cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is done by active risk management, through probabalistic decision-making.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Wrike

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In a world that’s becoming more technology driven, the role of the technical project manager – or TPM, as it’s come to be known – has established itself as a distinct subset of project management. While all TPMs are project managers, the reverse doesn’t hold true: All project managers don’t hold the technical distinction. .

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. But there is a real problem here: With so many different frameworks and project management approaches, life cycles are so confusing. Phases in Software Development.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. The reason for this surge in popularity is quite understandable, the majority of projects benefit when managed using lean concepts promoted by Agile project management methodology.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

With today’s speed of work and innovation, it’s imperative that your business finds an ideal work management software to streamline projects , optimize workflows , automate tasks , and enhance team productivity without causing burnout. . This article shares the key differences between Wrike vs. Asana. What is Wrike?

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Here's an extract from "Chapter 8: Human Behavior and Complexity," Terry Cooke-Davies, in Aspects of Complexity: Managing Projects in a Complex World. This is a cautionary tale for those listening to the #NoEstimates advocates, where anecdotes of bad management are used in an attempt to replace established principles of business management.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's say you're the project or program manager of a large complex system. We cannot escape these two uncertainties - reducible and irreducible - and must learn how to manage in the presence of these uncertainties. Maybe an aircraft, or a building, or an ERP system deployment. Abstracted from [3].

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used in the software development and IT industry for the past sixteen years, but recently it has gained wide acceptance by many number of industries and organizations. History of Agile project management. No wounder so many projects were failing.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Information Technology is a young industry with several even younger career paths, one of which is Information Technology Service Management (ITSM). A quick search via a popular search engine informs us of the following: Toolmaking is considered one of the world’s oldest professions at approximately 2.8 million years.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. Fletcher Hearns: Great, thank you Kyle.

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nTask

JANUARY 18, 2021

And with the world has moved online, it is no wonder of the rise in digital project management. But what is digital project management? Here is everything you need to know about digital project management. What People View Digital Project Management as? What is Digital Project Management? What does it entail?

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PM Basics

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Projeudget Template includes planned expenses for all project activities, including wages, materials, fees, risk reserves, etc. If you don’t understand it yet consider reading suggest articles. Do you need a senior Android software engineer? Risk Management is a part of the project Cost Baseline!

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and management. Yes, this is the basis of any closed loop control system from keeping the room temperature at a specific setting, to the speed control on your car, to managing software development projects in the presence of uncertainty. Have you done a Root Cause Analysis?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and business management. Yes, this is the basis of any closed loop control system from keeping the room temperature for a specific setting, to the speed control on your car, to managing software development projects in the presence of uncertainty, using any software method you choose.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

s webinar, Use Agile Project Management with MS Project, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Welcome to Use Agile Project Management with MS Project. I’ll also invite you to stay on after the event and the recording closes. Cindy enjoys sharing her knowledge with the project management community.

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PM Basics

JULY 1, 2020

So, it’s time for you to become an IT project manager. Is it possible at all to become a project manager in an IT company like that? For sure, the easiest way to become a software project manager is by getting a promotion inside an IT company. Featured Download : Getting ready to become an IT Project Manager?

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

It has many good concepts, one serious math error, and connects well with how we manage and work billion dollar programs. No Estimates Mean Better Estimates? - Value at Risk means how much money and time are you willing to risk without understanding how much time and money is at risk. Software Estimating Taxonomy.

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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

Welcome to the final part of my three-part series on project requirements management. What is the requirements management baseline? And I think the reason being is that along the way, in this requirements management process, there was not an appropriate traceability and monitoring process set up.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Satya is a management professional, speaker, coach and author of six books, including the book I Want To Be An ACP. So, first thing it is coming from PMI, which is Project Management Institute, a body for project management related certification based in the US. All right, we’ll go ahead and begin. A number of tools.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Leonardo is a senior executive at Prosperity with solid skills on building Teams, managing and growing people, and experience in business portfolio, and Project management, marketing, sales, and cloud services. Come together, and then specific to their categories, Project and portfolio management in this case.

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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. Define the risks - reducible and irreducible - to each Capability and their Features. What is the Value at Risk for your Project? Both of these actions cost money.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves. Two closely related conceptual errors appear to be quite common. First, there’s a tool-centric mentality about software-related work. Building software. Creating or modifying database schemas.

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