Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis. As well, these costs and the benefits from expending those costs produce tangible and many times the intangible value. Related articles.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Machine learning requires data to rapidly identify patterns and process output. This can include things such as scientific research, sales, manufacturing, security, and logistics. AI systems can be designed to learn from data and improve their performance over time, a process known as machine learning.”

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MPUG

MARCH 30, 2020

For example, if you had three American companies in the same business of manufacturing motorcycle tires and each had 4,000 employees which included 100 IT people, their PMOs would still be different. This article is meant to give some guidance for starting a PMO and eventually growing into a Strategic PMO (SPMO).

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MPUG

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Have you ever wondered about the history of project management, or how it evolved into its’ present day usage? This article will cover most of the major project management happenings throughout history. The core values of Agile are: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Software Development Approaches.

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MPUG

MAY 15, 2023

.” I was a bit surprised by this because, in my experience as a project manager, I would have significant supplier interactions from the beginning of the supplier selection process. Managing procurement on projects comes in three main parts. Early on, the project manager may not be included in some events.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 10, 2017

Planning is an unnatural process, it’s much more fun to get on with it. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? The project cost, schedule, and resulting deliverables are a system, subject to these coupling and cohesion.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Aleatory uncertainty, from the naturally occurring variances in the process and Epistemic uncertainty from the probabilistic event-based processes that impact the project. Epistemic uncertainty and the risk it creates can be reduced with handling processes. Related articles. IT Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

These forecasts usually come from models of the process being forecast. Not so typical to Forecast the cost of a project or forecast the delivery date. Forecasts are based on estimating the processes that produce the forecast. Project cost, schedule, and technical performance Estimates. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 20, 2018

Let's start with that dreaded waterfall development process. Agile will come next, but waterfall (and of course the term is no longer allowed in US DOD procurement, but it is an acceptable accounting term), provides the easiest framework for software development cost accounting. So Now What About Agile Development Processes.

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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. A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N., Michael, International Journal of Project Management , 19, pp. 3, March 2002.

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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. Michael, International Journal of Project Management , 19, pp. 24, 2010.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

Certain information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes are often unknown until the project is underway. The emerging risks that can be identified early in the project that impact the project later are often termed “known unknowns.” Risk Management Process Model.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 28, 2017

The reality is you’re only as good as your last project and achieving a project date given months in advance is based on leadership, a drive for results, successfully managing expectations and let’s face it—luck! No two projects are ever the same. Why Change? Use ranged estimation versus single point estimates. uncertainty).

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Teamweek

AUGUST 27, 2020

Lean Project Management can fix this. Based on Toyota’s manufacturing philosophy from the 1950s, this management method helps reduce waste whilst improving team efficiency. In this article, we’re going to explore: What is Lean Project Management? Benefits of Lean Project Management.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 7, 2021

In this article, we look at 15 Enterprise Project Management tools. Enterprise project management tools help you automate the above activities using software. Do You Need Enterprise Project Management Tools? Project management software is widely used across software, service, manufacturing, and marketing industries.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. King, Naval Postgraduate School.

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