Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

"Iterative Enhancement: A Practical Technique for Software Development," Victor Basil and Albert Turner, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Related articles. 4, December 1975. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain.

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2003 Software Engineering Manufacturing Engineering 38

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. Having spent half my life in the commercial space and half in the government space, the questions are always there. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs. Again, my name is Fletcher Hearns. What’s happening now.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. We engineers should always keep in mind that software development is usually one part of many others inside the company.

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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

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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Process Estimate Software Developers Software Development 45

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

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Related articles. Economics of Software Development. Herding Cats: Economics of Software Development. The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile. Prentice-Hall, 1981. Complex, Complexity, Complicated. Of Course We Can!

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Technical Review Software Review Estimate Software Engineering 28

Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Before listening to any conjecture that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of Uncertainty for software development, please read these books. What are we looking for? Reading Materials.

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Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Software Governance 28

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. This is the domain of Microeconomics and when applied to software development it is the microeconomics of software development.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Orange dots are the actual weights from a variety of sources - a Design Model (3D Catia CAD system), a detailed design model, a bench scale model that can be measured, a non-flying prototype, and then the 1st Flight Article). Related articles. Of Course We Can!

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Most of these roles were based on aspects of IT operation, such as mainframe operation and maintenance, which later evolved into software development and commercialisation. As governments and organisations began to utilise IT to run their organisations, the concepts of ‘services’ began to evolve.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Orange dots are the actual weights from a variety of sources - a Design Model (3D Catia CAD system), a detailed design model, a bench scale model that can be measured, a non-flying prototype, and then the 1st Flight Article). Software Engineering Economics”.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Orange dots are the actual weights from a variety of sources - a Design Model (3D Catia CAD system), a detailed design model, a bench scale model that can be measured, a non-flying prototype, and then the 1st Flight Article). Software Engineering Economics”.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Orange dots are the actual weights from a variety of sources - a Design Model (3D Catia CAD system), a detailed design model, a bench scale model that can be measured, a non-flying prototype, and then the 1 st Flight Article). Software Engineering Economics”.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

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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Software Review 2019 Development Team Review Technical Review 97

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Probabilistic over Deterministic is standard estimating processes in every single book, paper, guideline, policy, and regulations governing the development in use of estimates in commercial (ITIL) and Government (all agency and GAO Estimating handbooks). Delivery Time over Development Time. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments. Almost impossible?

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. And money in the bank is what software development is about.

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

This Does Not Scale - If there are software development projects that can be executed without knowing how much it will cost in the end (an open ended spend plan), or projects where the budget is capped (a Not To Exceed Number) and we don't really need to know the upper bound of the features to be delivered, how large can this notion scale?

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Estimate Risk Management Finance Software Developers 39

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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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

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. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. The same rule of thumb applies to other governance reviews, as well. It’s not okay, for instance, for an individual to perform both the programming and the testing of a software feature.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Development Team Review 78