LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 18, 2023

A blog article describing “fake Agile” may be resonating a bit too much for comfort. It turns out that “agile” isn’t really a process. The principles are more detailed (and more industry specific), but still steer largely clear of defining processes or practices. No change in engineering practices. Absolutely.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 23, 2017

In the estimating business, like many things in project management, there is confusion about principles, practices, and processes. A good estimation approach should provide estimates that are within 25% of the actual results, 75% of the time. Software Engineering Metrics and Models. Dunsmore and V.Y.

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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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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

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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Herding Cats

JANUARY 9, 2017

Aleatory uncertainty, which is the naturally occurring yields variances in the underlying processes. Epistemic uncertainty comes from probabilistic processes that can be addressed with handling responses. The idea of risk and its management and handling is a critical success factor for all software development. .

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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.

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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 ? The program management processes should seek to reduce uncertainty in the variable of the project. 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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Scrum.org

JUNE 13, 2022

After covering the anti-patterns of the Scrum Master, the Product Owner, and the stakeholders, this article addresses Scrum Developer anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events and the Product Backlog artifact. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Too much estimating: The Developers even estimate sub-tasks.

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PM Basics

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I need accurate estimates. 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. But here’s the truth: If you want accurate numbers, you need to do the bottom-up estimate. You estimate activities and tasks. Click To Tweet.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes.

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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. But the tide is turning and Agile project management is gaining wide acceptance as a valid process for most projects. Project Estimation. How do you come up with project estimation in Agile world?

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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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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process. This is simply good process development and management. What is the Root Cause of the process not being trusted? Or are you taking observations and deciding that the process is broken without finding the actual cause of the undesirable outcomes?

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. This letter states.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The #NoEstimates Manifesto - Actually restates Best Practice for estimating and making decisions with those estimates. . Deterministic estimates are point estimates and Point estimates without a Variance are of little value in the presence of uncertainty. Estimates make use of a broad range of models and data .

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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.

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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

JULY 29, 2017

This is called Software Engineering Economics. Related articles. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Estimating and Making Decisions in Presence of Uncertainty. IT Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

In the early days long before laptops and small electronics, I used a PDP-8/m, to write Fast Fourier Transform algorithms in Macro-8, the assembly language in under 4K of memory, to process the outputs of an analog to digital converted capture data off the accelerator. You're bad at estimating - WHY? Related articles.

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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." The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . Let's look at what an estimate is.

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

But the tide is turning and Agile is gaining wide acceptance as a valid process for many projects. 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. Project Estimation.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process. This is simply good process development and business management. What is the Root Cause of the process not being trusted? Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Can't go wrong here, except for one critical issue. Not likely.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

requires making estimates) ? Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

The requirements documents (in whatever form) are the basis of the process to verify these needed capabilities with customers and internal or external stakeholders and validates these requirement meet to need strategic intent of the work. [2]. 1] Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, [link] . [2] Related articles.

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Workzone

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s specifically built for technicl creatives—such as game developers, UX designers and software engineers. Or have very systematic processes? Geared towards engineers, Planio has issue tracking, version control, help desk capabilities, wikis and chat capabilities. Pricing: $6.80-$12.75/month month for 5 users 6.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Gartner estimates that a third of organizations are currently applying AI across several business units, a figure that is only set to grow. customers is because it delivers the best artificial intelligence tools for project and task management, for a fraction of the cost of bespoke software engineering solutions.

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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. Estimates of cost, schedule, technical performance on the left have a lower probability of being precise and accurate than estimates on the right.

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Binfire

MARCH 13, 2017

What processes and technologies we will use to make the product? It is the job of the project manager to foresee risks, create an impact estimation and define how to respond to the issues which will arise throughout project life cycle. Ask each developer to give a 3 point estimation for every task he or she is responsible for.

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Wrike

JUNE 3, 2015

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. Workers have to be paid for more time, so your estimated budget goes over. Fix your broken processes quickly — even if you eat the cost from ending a contract early. Stop the madness!

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

The result was a safety stand down for everyone on the site (5,000 Steel Works), including all us office workers, to get the message about health, safety, and safeguards of the materials and processes on site. . 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. Analytical Hierarchical Process .

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

The result was a safety stand down for everyone on the site (5,000 Steel Works), including all us office workers, to get the message about health, safety, and safeguards of the materials and processes on site. . In all engineering worlds, from software engineering to bending metal for money, there is really nothing new under the sun.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We have gone an extra mile to illustrate various real life use cases and examples where waterfall is implemented, and how one can use nTask to further simplify that process – so on and so forth. It follows a sequential, linear process which is why it is often described as a “linear-sequential life cycle model”. Dr. Winston W.

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