Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. There is no discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. illities are a waste.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

A while ago, I received an interesting scientific article from Gunther Verheyen titled “Getting Things Done: The Science Behind Stress-Free Productivity” (Heylighen & Vidal, 2007). The article discusses possible scientific explanations for the success of a personal productivity approach called “ Getting Things Done ” (GTD; Allen, 2001).

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

According to International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates , less than 10% of that data is analyzed. At Envorso, we are incubating a software product called Empwr.ai that is designed to transform unstructured data into usable structured data to help teams optimize their operations, information sharing, and communication.

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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 ? 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation , Steve McConnell , Construx, 2002. Steve McConnell.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? What would be the evidence that we could make decisions in the presence of uncertanty without estimating the impacts and outcomes of those decisions? . Start here.

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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. Our perception of this world - the data and information we receive about these behaviors. All estimates have precision and accuracy.

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PM Basics

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I need accurate estimates. Based on the information in the charter, you develop project requirements. If you don’t understand it yet consider reading suggest articles. You can guess and make the high-level estimation that has a bullet-proof buffer. You estimate activities and tasks. Click To Tweet.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

This is the foundation for estimates. Estimates with accuracy and precision values needed to make credible decisions. These estimates are critical to both developers and customers. These estimates are used for generating requests for proposals, contract negotiations, scheduling, monitoring, and control. No Estimates?

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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. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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Herding Cats

MAY 19, 2017

It is popular to claim we've never done this before, so how can we possibly estimate the cost and schedule. If it truly hasn't been done before, then the software project is likely to be an inventing new physics project. In that world, we still made estimates of the cost to design, build, and operate the experiment.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. reducible and irreducible ?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. The supposed evidence in the presentation, that estimating "does not work" starts with the Chaos Report. This is called Doing Stupid Things on Purpose (DSTOP).

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Herding Cats

APRIL 13, 2018

Estimation locks down choices early through upfront t decision making, #NoEstimates preserves options. This is the same paradigm of Agile software development where responding to change over following the plan is part of the original manifesto. Aligning Software Investment Decisions with the Markets ," Hakan Erdogmus. "

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. This skill was an extension of the signal processing work I did as a grad student looking for information in the data stream of a particle accelerator. Related articles.

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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. . You're bad at estimating - WHY? Our management misuses information we provide them. Did you provide the wrong information? Related articles. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis.

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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. This is the foundation for estimates. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 9, 2017

DeMacro made this post, which has been picked up by the agile community to mean estimating is a waste. . Implying there is no need to measure the project performance and by implication no need to estimate. If they are not an external investor, the internal CFO needs that same information. All estimates are evil.

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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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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

In the late twenty century many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all. In 2001 a group of software engineers and scientists in IT industry got together and wrote Agile Manifesto. Project Estimation.

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Workzone

JANUARY 18, 2023

But seriously, they are a fast way to grasp information and for top-level reminders. It’s specifically built for technicl creatives—such as game developers, UX designers and software engineers. Zenkit also gives you member-level, swimlanes for your Kanban board and time estimates for tasks or Sprints.

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Wrike

JUNE 3, 2015

Everyone knows how vital it is to proactively share information and knowledge during a project if you want to succeed; yet poor communication continues to trip teams up time and time again. Take a few minutes to read this fun article and pick up some communication tips for your team: How to Communicate Like Super Bowl Champions.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow, through some unstated process of correction or prevention, fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. TO DO in Rally, Remaining Estimate in Jira, and other fields in Team Foundation Server and VersionOne. Not likely.

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Binfire

MARCH 13, 2017

Then you talk with their colleagues and supervisor to calibrate the information you gathered. You catalog each member in functional areas like software, firmware, hardware and marketing. Most engineers and developers are too optimistic by nature when they give estimates of work that needs to be done.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. It’s how they’re done and what they do with the information, we as project managers, program managers, schedulers provide to our team. Is it Fletcher?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

This is used in support of the fallacy that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of uncertanty. This community of program controls, cost analyst, earned value managers and program managers is accountable for providing information to decision makers on enterprise and complex projects and programs. Related articles.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

Its simplicity and ease of implementation has made it the most popular version of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) for software engineering and IT projects. Royce, often but mistakenly called the “father of Waterfall”, is accredited with the first formal description of the process in an article he wrote in 1970.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's start with a clear and concise description of the problem of successfully managing projects in the presence of uncertainty: Accurate software cost and schedule estimations are essential for non-trivial software projects. As a software project progresses, more information about the project is known.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 18, 2016

To assess the impact of that risk, devise the protective actions needed to address the resulting risk - ESTIMATING is required. Without estimates the Aleatory and Epistemic uncertanty that exists on All project will go unaddressed and the probablity of project sucess will be significanlty reduced, perhaps to Zero. . Related articles.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. A #Noestimates advocate makes the claim that having a ±10% accuracy for estimates of cost and duration is a dangerous thing. Define the probabilistic ranges of the work in a single point estimate manner. There are databases for Function Points .

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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). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons.

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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). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

In all engineering worlds, from software engineering to bending metal for money, there is really nothing new under the sun. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments. maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help. Almost impossible?

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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). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty.

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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). Related articles. Economics of Software Development.

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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. We need to learn how to predict with credible methods.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Even the engineers, hardware engineer, software engineer, mechanical engineer. Agile has been- they are in software industry primarily.

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