Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

This Article allows you to explore these methodologies in-depth, tailor them to fit your unique project needs, and wield them to achieve unparalleled project outcomes. Ready to transform your approach to project management and software development? Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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Teamweek

MARCH 30, 2022

With the great resignation in full effect, recruiters are constantly looking for ways to modernize their hiring process. If you’re new to job simulation tests, this article is for you. – Leverage a digital situation judgment testing tool to modernize your hiring process. When to use them? In-Basket/In-Tray Exercises.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 17, 2024

From individual coding tasks to large-scale releases, the DoD sets the bar for quality and completeness, ensuring everyone - from developers to stakeholders - is on the same page. Ready to transform your project delivery process? This article will help you craft a robust DoD that suits your project needs and team dynamics.

Software Review 52

Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review 2024 52

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility. Adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility.”. I prefer a process-based definition of agility. Although we used Scrum teams for our investigation, these processes are generic enough to apply to Agile teams in general.

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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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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Enter the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), the unsung hero of the digital age. This comprehensive article will delve into the world of SREs, exploring their role, responsibilities, importance in business operations, the intersection of software engineering and systems administration, and the future trends shaping this crucial field.

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Engineering Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review 36

Scrum.org

JANUARY 25, 2021

Read on and learn how to employ search-engines, LinkedIn’s people search, reaching out to peers in the agile community, and analyzing the event markets in the quest for your next Scrum Master job. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Both communities allow for posting articles as well as questions. Job interview.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

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 ? The program management processes should seek to reduce uncertainty in the variable of the project. Steve McConnell. 37–48, 2007.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 28, 2022

So how do you go about selecting the best candidates for a development role ? Simple – a fine-tuned recruitment process that leverages the power of proper programming tests. In this article, we’ll go over: The importance of programming tests. What coding tests reveal about your next developer. General Coding.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. Aleatory uncertainty is expressed as a process variability. First, let's establish a principle.

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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. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999.

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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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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. Herding Cats: The Classic Misunderstanding between Principles, Practices, and Process. 4, December 1975. IT Risk Management.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. But the tide is turning and Agile project management is gaining wide acceptance as a valid process for most projects. History of Agile project management. This works much better for most large projects.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. This letter states.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 28, 2024

TL; DR: Agile Laws in Software Development On many occasions, working with agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Starting to change always requires the acceptance that there is a problem that needs attention.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. During this education process, we all have encountered texts that have laid out the principles and processes needed to do our job and deliver the needed capabilities for the needed cost on the needed date to accomplish the needed mission.

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used in the software development and IT industry for the past sixteen years, but recently it has gained wide acceptance by many number of industries and organizations. But the tide is turning and Agile is gaining wide acceptance as a valid process for many projects.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 9, 2017

Aleatory uncertainty, which is the naturally occurring yields variances in the underlying processes. Epistemic uncertainty comes from probabilistic processes that can be addressed with handling responses. The idea of risk and its management and handling is a critical success factor for all software development.

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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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Herding Cats

MARCH 23, 2017

In the estimating business, like many things in project management, there is confusion about principles, practices, and processes. Software Engineering Metrics and Models. And download the paper that followed " A Software Metrics Survey. And download the paper that followed " A Software Metrics Survey.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The processes is an engineering discipline. Systems Engineering, Risk Engineering, Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering, are typical roles where we work. Related articles. Economics of Software Development.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

APRIL 8, 2017

Much of the conversation in social media around agile techniques seems to be based on the differences between the variety of choices of a method, a process, or a practice and definitions of terms for those choices. I work in a domain where systems are engineered for the customer. Related articles. And vice versa.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Software developers and the IT managers they work for operating in the future. Many of this practitioners view the future as an esoteric, abstract, impractical realm, But the future is where the value of the software is earned. 1] Software Cost Estimation with COCOM II , Barry Boehm , et al. [2] Related articles.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This article shares the key differences between Wrike vs. Asana. Wrike was launched in 2006 by founder and software developer Andrew Filev. Wrike is a fully-featured project management software with functionalities ranging from resource allocation and time-tracking to budgeting and collaborative project management.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2023

VSM acts as a catalyst for continuous refinement, offering insights into existing processes. In the realm of software development, principles of DevOps and a commitment to technical excellence can further enhance the process. It enables teams to grasp the entire process, spotlighting bottlenecks and inefficiencies.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Mine is in hard science and systems engineering. Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. This data collection is based on ISO Standards for measuring the functional size of software. Software engineering has become procedural and controlled. Related articles. Here's a few that serve us well.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population or generated from a model of the process being estimated.

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Workzone

JANUARY 18, 2023

Favro Gamers or rather game developers, you may want to check out Favro. It’s specifically built for technicl creatives—such as game developers, UX designers and software engineers. Their Kanban board stretches horizontally across to help you visualize what’s next in the product development cycle.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. With this paradigm we have logically connected project management processes with Control System processesIf the variances, created by uncertainty going outside the UCL and LCL. The processes is an engineering discipline. 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 Measure that is modeled in the Cone the variable is the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measure. The processes is an engineering discipline. 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”. The Measure that is modeled in the Cone the variable is the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measure. The processes is an engineering discipline. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Or, you may conclude after your research — thus early in the assessment process (see below) — that the organization is not compatible with your expectations of a future employer or client. Both communities allow for posting articles as well as questions.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

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Wrike

MARCH 4, 2015

While we posted some of our team’s must-read project management books in this article , we’ve since expanded our library with a few new favorites. His solution is unconventional: with a huge staff of software developers at his disposal, he splits them into eighteen teams. Managing IT & Software Development Projects .

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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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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 18, 2023

A blog article describing “fake Agile” may be resonating a bit too much for comfort. It turns out that “agile” isn’t really a process. Focus on Agile principles, not practices Let’s go back to 2001 and take a look at the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. It describes four values for software development.

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