Herding Cats

APRIL 13, 2018

A real option is a choice made available with business investment opportunities, referred to as “real” because it typically references a tangible asset instead of a financial instrument. The term flexibility in the Real Options paradigm refers to the capability of responding to a change or new situation. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Let's start with the core issue on all software development projects. All engineering courses, including software development in Computer Science courses, is based on probability and statistics at some level. Software engineering has become procedural and controlled. Related articles.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

This model can be produced parametrically (Reference Class Forecasting) or through a simulation (Monte Carlo or Method of Moments is common). . An estimate is a statistic about a whole population of possible values from a previous reference period or a model that can generate possible values given the conditions of the model.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. software estimation”), and then select “review articles” under “type” on the left. References in academic papers are also a good source.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Often referred to as the black art because of the complexity and uncertainty, software estimation is as difficult or puzzling as people think. . This book bring them together in a real-world guidebook to help software managers, engineers, and customers immediately improve their estimates - and drive continuous improvement over time.

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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. This quick reference guide is in question and answer format, so you can easily look up solutions to common problems and find the full answers you need, right when you need them. Brooks, Jr.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? For example, the query “scrum master” site:age-of-product.com will return all articles on Age-of-Product.com that include the term “scrum master.” Contrary to InfoQ’s standards, there are quite a few articles on Medium.com , for example, that could raise eyebrows for scrutiny.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 10, 2020

What looked like a good idea back in the 1990ies—outsourcing software development as a non-essential business area—has meanwhile massively backfired for a lot of legacy organizations. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Software is finally eating the world. Related Articles. By the way, it’s free.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

These estimate can certainly be based on empirical data, but reference classes, nearest neighbor models, parametric models, Monte Carlo simulations are all methods to make estimates as well. Software development project schedule estimation has long been a difficult problem. References. Related articles.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Interview coding challenges are critical when hiring new software developers. Finding the right developer can be a difficult process. What are Interview Coding Challenges for Developers? Often referred to as whiteboarding, these are accomplished in the presence of the hiring manager. 2 – Live coding challenges.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

A while ago, I received an interesting scientific article from Gunther Verheyen titled “Getting Things Done: The Science Behind Stress-Free Productivity” (Heylighen & Vidal, 2007). The article discusses possible scientific explanations for the success of a personal productivity approach called “ Getting Things Done ” (GTD; Allen, 2001).

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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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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2022

It’s about collaboration and openness, and speaking of collaboration, I am pleased to inform you that this article was written in cooperation with Stefano Milanesi ; a fantastic Agile Coach and consultant whom I was lucky to meet on my professional journey. . References: [1] Scrum Guide ver. Our story begins here. . “New

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PM Basics

JULY 1, 2020

Read more about the benefits in this article: 26 Arguments to Prove the Benefits of Project Management. When you are aiming for the IT sector you must know SDLC: Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management. You don’t work in one of the main industries: Software Development. Be Proactive! Social Media.

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PM Basics

MAY 16, 2022

You don’t work in one of the main niches: Software Development. Agile Frameworks are popular in the software development industry. Here’s a shortlist of major cities with a high level of software development job opportunities. Technical Skills of a Software Project Manager. “I Where Should I Start?

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

A working paper of the same title " Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM), " Barry Boehm, Jo Ann Lane, Supannika Koolmanojwong, Richard Turner, CSCI577, Software Engineering, Fall 2017, University of Southern California (my alma mater in Systems Engineering) . Related articles. Data over Intuition.

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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. Reference class forecasting predicts the outcome of an action based on actual outcomes in a reference class of similar actions to that being forecast.

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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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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. Define Reference Classes for those Capabilities and the Features that implement them. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. References.

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Teamweek

APRIL 26, 2023

In this article, we look at the real potential of this AI innovation for talent acquisition by analysing what it is and diving into 8 ChatGPT in recruitment examples. Example prompt : Create a short job description for a junior software developer written in a style that promotes a diverse and inclusive hiring process.

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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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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. 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. It is not true.

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