Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Our perception of this world - the data and information we receive about these behaviors. Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The beginning of all business critical software development projects is the point in time when performing organizations are least certain about the project, yet it is also the time when top management expects to be delivered project estimates that are very precise. 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation , Steve McConnell , Construx, 2002. "A

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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. 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.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. De Meyer, C. Dorofee, et.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

I spent the week speaking at the College of Performance Management conference where government and industry come together to work on the issues of cost, schedule, and technical performance management process improvement needed to increase the probability of program success. Related articles. Software Engineering is a Verb.

Software Engineering 28

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

Underestimating software engineering costs could result in management approving proposed systems that potentially exceed budget allocations, or underdeveloped functions with poor quality, or a failure to complete a project on time. Here are three starting resources for Software Economics: Software Engineering Economics , Barry Boehm.

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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

MAY 8, 2016

They are not informed by the principles of spending other people's money. There are intense pressures, incomplete information about what’s happening in the marketplace and an army of consultants, advisors and others who come along with new ideas every day. Governance drives processes in Agile at Scale. If not, walk away.

Estimate 28

Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Software Governance 28

MPUG

MAY 6, 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. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. By education and training.

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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. . Our management misuses information we provide them. Did you provide the wrong information? Related articles. What class did you not attend? What book did you not read? Are they incompetent?

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

I expect you’ll join me in recognising that Information Technology has existed for approximately 100 years. Information Technology is a young industry with several even younger career paths, one of which is Information Technology Service Management (ITSM). million years.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 9, 2017

My early metrics book, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation (Prentice Hall/Yourdon Press, 1982) , played a role in the way many budding software engineers quantified work and planned their projects. […] The book’s most quoted line is its first sentence: “You can’t control what you can’t measure.”

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

We can estimate the total cost, total duration, and the probability that all the Features will be delivered on the program we are working for the US Government. Or ANY software project for that matter. 2] IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , SXE-10, Janurary, 1981, pp. Related articles. Why not you?

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

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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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Tolerance bands for the project base weight provide management with actionable information about the progression of the program. As the program progresses each of the weight measurements for each of the models through to a final article is compared to the planned weight.

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”. As more research and development is done, more information is learned about the project, and the uncertainty then tends to decrease, reaching 0% when all residual risk has been terminated or transferred. Software Engineering Economics”. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. As more research and development is done, more information is learned about the project, and the uncertainty then tends to decrease, reaching 0% when all residual risk has been terminated or transferred. Software Engineering Economics”. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. As more research and development is done, more information is learned about the project, and the uncertainty then decreases, reaching 0% when all risk has been mitigated or transferred. These are used to inform the designer of the progress of the project as it proceeds.

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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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MPUG

JULY 16, 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. Performing requirements traceability analysis is an important part of software engineering. You may watch the recording of this webinar at your convenience.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

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. Actually, the main reason Prosperity went out there this year, not only to gain information and insight into everything, Microsoft Project, but it also collected awards.

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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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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Four Critical Elements of Project Success - each element has statistical behaviors that requires estimates to provide information for decisions. IT Governance and Decision Rights - those spending the money rarely of ever have the right to decide how, unless explicitly given that right by those providing the money.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Related articles.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . 6, No 5, October 2014. [3]

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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 ‒ Steve McConnell. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

The same rule of thumb applies to other governance reviews, as well. Regulations are also in place to protect the personal information of individuals, including a wide range of guidelines for the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) such as the one published by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

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