MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

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. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. Is it Fletcher?

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Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Engineering 59

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L. Kirkeboen, G., &

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

A Quick Estimation Approach to Software Cost Estimation," Leckraj Nagowah, Hajrah BibiBenazir, and Bachun, African Conference on Software Engineering and Applied Computing , . "A A Probabilistic Method for Predicting Software Code Growth," Michael Ross, Journal of Cost Analysis and Parametrics 4:127-147, 2011. "10

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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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2003 Software Engineering Manufacturing Engineering 38

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.

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Software Engineering Performance Measurement Finance Manufacturing 28

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

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. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

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, 2019

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. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

This is called Software Engineering Economics. Related articles. Knowing the probabilistic behaviours of all three of these random variables - Value, Time needed to produce the Value, and Cost to produce the Value is required for any decision to be made in the presence of uncertainty. IT Risk Management.

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Cadence Software Engineering Estimate Manufacturing 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

After having worked for outsourcing, consultancy and product companies I believe that creating a place where people really trust each other is easier when software engineers and stakeholders are both part of the same organization. This notion shows that governance is not considered a requirement for the business.

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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. So if you're writing software and NOT doing the things in the list above, I guess you're creating an art form or are a craftsman, not a software engineer.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Governance drives processes in Agile at Scale. Governance can be ignored or even flaunted for small self contained teams. Organizing for responsiveness to external business drivers at scale means additional cost must be absorbed to govern in the presence of these externalities. . Related articles.

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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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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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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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Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Governance 52

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. Estimating Probabilistic Outcomes?

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Estimate Software Engineering 28

Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

This was my starting point for becoming a software engineer rather than a physicist, by the way. . Related articles. Hooked up to the experiment was a series of oscilloscopes with Poloride cameras attached to capture the signal of something interesting to the Principle Investigators. Are they incompetent?

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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

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”. 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.

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”. 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”.

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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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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). Related articles. Delivery Time over Development Time. IT Risk Management.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Even the engineers, hardware engineer, software engineer, mechanical engineer. Now you’re thinking, how about mechanical engineer I just said. Agile has been- they are in software industry primarily. So with respect to MPUG, I have written a number of articles. There is an article.

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PMI Certification Software Review Technical Review 52

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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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

Performing requirements traceability analysis is an important part of software engineering. They are generally going to be reviewed as requested by a governing body, for impact on the in process work. Because it ensures that all of the requirements have been adequately considered during each phase of the project.

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Monitoring Controlling Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

“Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. 9, Issue 3, No.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The number of software engineers is expected to triple the number of mechanical engineers this year alone. All right, and then the engine behind a lot of that is the CDS, the common data service. Jump-starting apps, this is really where business rules are governed. Their centerpiece will be a lot around that.

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2019 Technical Review Software Review Engineering 40

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." . Related articles.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

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. Software Engineering is a Verb - I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. Related articles.

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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. You probably remember the case of the Volkswagen software engineer who was sentenced to prison for writing code that enabled vehicles to pass emissions tests fraudulently. Our product combines hardware and embedded software.

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