Herding Cats

MAY 19, 2017

As well we made estimates of what information will be produced after spending the customers (in most cases the government is the customer) money. Quantitative Software Management (QSM). Software Benchmarking Organization. Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Software Improvement Group (SIG). Quantimetrics.

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Estimate Governance Government Software Engineering 36

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

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

JANUARY 7, 2017

Because of the limitations of resources, projects need to operate withing a world of limited resources, the uncertainties - both reducible and irreducible - that create risk, and the emerging attributes of all project work. Since uncertainty creates risk, managing in the presence of uncertainty is Risk Management.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Software Engineering 40

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. IT Risk Management.

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Software Engineering Performance Measurement Finance Manufacturing 28

Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

This is called Software Engineering Economics. Related articles. IT Risk Management. 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.

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Cadence Software Engineering Estimate Manufacturing 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create risk to the success of the project. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team. The processes is an engineering discipline.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Estimate Software Engineering 28

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. I guess when the software is created straight out of the mind of the developer with no thought to the consequences of each decision made during the development.

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Software Developers Software Development Engineering Software 39

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

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create risk to the success of the project. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

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. Software development is not Macro, it's Micro. . Related articles.

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Process Estimate Software Developers Software Development 45

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.”

Software Engineering 31

Software Engineering Estimate 2015 Engineering 31

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. Kahneman is speaking about risk-taking when we put it in the project context. Related articles. IT Risk Management.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Now that we've established with the above sources there are conjectures without basis, nonsense statements like estimates are the smell of dysfunction without ever stating what the dysfunction is or what could possibly be causing the dysfunction, here's the place to start for serious estimating for software intensive systems.

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Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Software Governance 28

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 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 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. IT Risk Management. 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.

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Estimate Engineering Software Engineering Manufacturing 37

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 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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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). Related articles. IT Risk Management. Data over Intuition.

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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." . Let's start with the obvious.

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

Performing requirements traceability analysis is an important part of software engineering. When there’s a requirement with no associated work product, there is a risk that important components might be missed. They are generally going to be reviewed as requested by a governing body, for impact on the in process work.

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Monitoring Controlling Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

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." . So how do we get ±10% accuracy?

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

No Estimates Mean Better Estimates? - Value at Risk means how much money and time are you willing to risk without understanding how much time and money is at risk. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - this is a core concept for all project success. We need to learn how to predict with credible methods.

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Estimate Risk Management Finance Software Developers 39

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. Then you have product quality, then risk management, then value based prioritization.

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PMI Certification Software Review Technical Review 52

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc. 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. 61, September 2004. Chakraborty and K.

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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

MPUG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The number of software engineers is expected to triple the number of mechanical engineers this year alone. Unfortunately, it’s under NDA, so we were sworn to secrecy, couldn’t even have a … You could have a risk of having a phone taken if you’re taking screenshots through this.

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2019 Technical Review Software Review Engineering 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. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves. Including appropriate tooling in the automated CI process covers most of the remaining risks in this area. No one can check for unknown issues, even using manual methods, so no risk is introduced by automating this step.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Development Team Review 66