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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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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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We thought it would be cool to round up all those Field Notes into one article and share the best of the best with you. Four Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation In this article, our CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, explores why focusing on practices and culture isn’t the right place to start an Agile Transformation.

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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

MARCH 17, 2019

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Project Governance. Basis of Estimate Process.

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Planview

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, many digital transformation initiatives struggle to deliver the expected financial value, with more than half lagging behind original estimates, according to a Gartner survey of CIOs. So what can technology organizations do to achieve a higher rate of return on investment (ROI)?

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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. The budget and scope remain on track, but there are risks to the project’s software development resources following a resignation. Project managers are born communicators. 60,000) from 1st January.

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

government began using it to manage complex defense projects. Agile is used in a wide range of industries, including software development, IT, construction, engineering, and many others Hybrid Hybrid combines elements of traditional and agile pm to create a customized approach that meets the specific needs of the project.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 15, 2016

Here's the IT budget for the Federal Government. Related articles. Estimating and Making Decisions in Presence of Uncertainty. This is larger than all the IT systems found everywhere else in the world, plus all their custom built IT stuff. This is not the embedded systems. These are business systems.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We thought it would be cool to round up all those Field Notes into one article and share the best of the best with you. Four Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation In this article, our CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, explores why focusing on practices and culture isn’t the right place to start an Agile Transformation.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

The estimate of Desired (or even contractual ) schedule, cost, or technical performance of the software project. The granularity of these estimates determining the dynamic behavior of the system ‒ the software project. Managing software development projects is a Closed Loop control system. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

So what about bad ideas in the project management world, especialy the Agile Software Development world. One starting point is to ask if the ideas have any basis in a principle of how business or development of software actually works? Those who pay usually have some form of governance of their money. .

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

This article explains all you need to know about project charters: what they are and why you need them, essential elements every charter must contain, and different project charter templates to bring your project planning together. This is useful for projects of all types and sizes, whether simple or complex.

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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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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Oracle is a software company with its own ERP solution and offers Oracle Netsuite as an ERP service as well. If you want to see more ERP providers with a list of software with end-user feedback h e re. You can also take a look at Enlyft’s list of ERPs and their estimated market shares here. How does ERP Software Selection Work?

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

If you want to learn more about ERP capabilities, you can see Oracle Netsuite’s feature list as well as Oracle’s article background ERP software. Oracle is a software company with its own ERP solution and offers Oracle Netsuite as an ERP service as well. How does ERP Software Selection Work?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 17, 2016

One view of management in Agile can be informed by Governance of the work efforts. Here's a version of Governance, from " Agile Governance Theory: conceptual development ,” Alexandre J. Related articles. Agile Software Development in the DOD. Luna, Philippe Kruchten , and Hermano Moura. .

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 11, 2018

This is the basis of all Closed Loop Control systems, from the speed control of the car, to the flight controls for an aircraft, to the temperature controls for your home, and of course the business controls for software development. Right and wrong cease to be useful concepts when you’re talking about software development.

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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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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

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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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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This is a good starting point for answering the mail on the notion that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impact of those decisions. Estimates are for the business, why would the business no longer want an estimate of cost, schedule, or technical performance of the provided capabilities?

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MPUG

APRIL 15, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Lead Course Developer 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 cybersecurity. Estimating has not changed.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2017

This quote is coming back in the modern era of internet-based misinformation pundits in many domains, including project management and software development processes. Related articles. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. ." — Wolfgang Pauli said of a student's physics paper.

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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. Some self-proclaimed thought leader pontificates on what is wrong with the software industry. Related articles. Estimating and Making Decisions in Presence of Uncertainty.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This article explains all you need to know about bimodal IT, providing real-world bimodal examples and highlighting the benefits for your organization. Therefore, any software development project where team members are familiar with the process and have clarity of project requirements can be considered mode 1.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 15, 2017

Why estimates don't work - Carmen is assigned a project that will make or break the company. Then comes one of three quotes that are the basis of the argument for NOT estimating. This quote is misused to suggest that estimating can't be done. I posted some comments on the #NoEstimates book awhile back. Chapter 1 Introduction.

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

In this article, we provide step-by-step tactics for " Initiating a Project " the right way. 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.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 2, 2017

So the first part is following standard estimating principles. which states clearly and concisely that decisions can be made (in the presence of uncertainty - which is ALWAYS present on software development projects - without estimating the impact of those decisions. From large construction to software development.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Every once in awhile a reasonably intelligent No Estimates advocate shows up in a Twitter discussion. They often say you should be open-minded and try the concepts of No Estimates first. . A Pseudo-Open Minded person would say Sasquatch exists because the Federal Government is suppressing the evidence.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

"Iterative Enhancement: A Practical Technique for Software Development," Victor Basil and Albert Turner, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Real-Time Software Engineering in Ada: Observations and Guidelines," Mark Borger, Mark, Klein, and Robert Veltre, technical Report, CMU/SEI-89-TR-022 , September 1989. .

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute. Estimates of cost, schedule, technical performance on the left have a lower probability of being precise and accurate than estimates on the right. Related articles. Economics of Software Development.

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Workzone

JANUARY 5, 2021

If your company already uses Office 365 then it MS Project should fit right in with the rest of your software. For other Microsoft Project alternatives, check out this article. For more Wrike alternatives, check out this article. For more JIRA alternatives, check out this article. Pricing: $82.10/user/month. user/month.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

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 beginning of a project, comparatively little is known about the product or work results, and so estimates are subject to large uncertainty.

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