Herding Cats

APRIL 15, 2017

I posted some comments on the #NoEstimates book awhile back. Why estimates don't work - Carmen is assigned a project that will make or break the company. This is a classic example used in the book of making seriously bad management decisions. . This quote is misused to suggest that estimating can't be done.

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Planio

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That means communicating with their team and project stakeholders , setting realistic requirements, running meetings , assigning tasks , and managing time, budgets, and expectations. to keep their teams organized, document lessons learned, and manage tasks from start to finish. How to develop your project leadership skills.

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Alan Parker Blog

MAY 20, 2024

Despite their ominous nature, Death March projects are alarmingly common in many organisations, often arising from a mix of over-ambition and poor planning. The concept was popularised by Edward Yourdon in his book “Death March: The Complete Software Developer’s Guide to Surviving ‘Mission Impossible’ Projects.”

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? An estimate is. It's a fallacy.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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MPUG

JANUARY 4, 2021

your project team). For at least twenty years and counting, the world around us has become more and more software driven, and, as a result, more digital. Electric vehicles are about 50% software, in terms of value, whereas fossil fuel cars are mostly hardware. I will explain how you can marry these two seemingly?opposite

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Leading Agile

MAY 28, 2018

Velocity is the most widely used-and-abused metric associated with Agile software development. How are things going in your software development organization? ” We just estimate the time for each User Story and convert that into Story Points. You start with a time estimate and covert it to Story Points?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and management. Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process.

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Wrike

MARCH 7, 2024

As your team will be using the workflow management tool every day, you’ll want to see how it feels before you commit. Insights into the software’s ideal users. Similarly, creatives may prefer one tool and software developers another. Teams of any size can use Wrike’s free plan. Try Wrike for free Book a demo 2.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In discussing the delivery capacity of a software development team, we can say “velocity” and everyone knows we mean the amount of work the team can complete, on average, in a given time interval , and we don’t mean, literally, va=v+v02. Estimated hours completed? It’s only a metaphor.

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MPUG

JANUARY 14, 2022

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Sam Bell’s course, Critical Path Modeling Using Microsoft Project (Lesson 1: Estimating Resources and Using Resource Calendars), being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Melanie is here with team MPUG. Melanie: Hello welcome. With that, let’s start off.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and business management. Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy, since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. And the practices are not connected to any principle.

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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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2019

Newly trained Agilists typically are assigned to join an existing project team by means of an experiment. Most people in the team are unhappy and try to switch projects, but not the Scrum Master. Following initial experiments, organizations get started with a real Scrum team. Pre-Scrum waterfall . Starting with Early Scrum.

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PM Basics

JUNE 17, 2020

It fully comes from my practical experience in managing software development projects for nine years. How to build a strong team and honor commitments. How to Build a PM Team. Team Builder. The team’s motivation is a part of the Develop Project Team process. Key Concepts of Leadership.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.”

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD).

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

We all dream of reaching maximum success with our teams and projects, even though project failure is common. Business drivers have to be translated into project drivers by a strong technical team, not management. Looking ahead while planning the project can help you develop a viable risk management strategy and eliminate constraints.

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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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. For software development starts with. I couldn't see this in the text. .

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Planio

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Metrics and data can be a touchy subject for Agile teams. In the best-case scenario, Agile metrics like sprint burndown charts, velocity, and cumulative flow diagrams are used to reduce confusion and show team progress (or bottlenecks). So it’s no wonder that so many technical teams view agile metrics with a healthy dose of skepticism.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. And, my customer is equally as clueless about the need to estimate as I am.

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Workzone

JULY 18, 2022

With so many choices available, you’re likely wondering which software is right for your team. We’ve compiled a list of the best project management software options, including the pros and cons of each, to help you find the perfect solution for your company. Ready to see the #1 rated project management software?

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PM Basics

JUNE 5, 2018

Agile Project Management is common for Software Development and Telecommunication industries. However, I believe that for a Project Manager it is a natural development. Develop Acceptance Criteria. Leave all the rest for the project team to handle. The Scrum Team will use the prioritized Backlog as usually.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The original agile author's quote shows that systems engineering is missing from his development of software using Agile. While traditionally applied to product development, systems engineering can also be applied to service and enterprise systems. The elements of Systems Engineering are shown below.

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ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

Scrum is a project management framework that helps small, close-knit teams develop complex products incrementally. In Scrum, teams develop software in sprints and release what they’ve worked on every two weeks. Next Sprint - tasks you’ll work after the team finishes the current sprint. DURING SPRINT.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This is a good starting point for answering the mail on the notion that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impact of those decisions. Each of the authors have a different, sometimes slight, sometimes maor, approach to producing software using their methods. He had an interesting statement.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. Of late, Cone of Uncertainty has become the mantra of No Estimates advocates claiming that data is needed BEFORE the Cone is of any use.

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ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

Scrum is a project management framework that helps small, close-knit teams develop complex products incrementally. In Scrum, teams develop software in sprints and release what they’ve worked on every two weeks. Next Sprint - tasks you’ll work after the team finishes the current sprint. DURING SPRINT.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The book that contains that paper and provides the specific approach to modeling the future is Statistics for Experimenters: An Introduction to Design, Data Analysis, and Model Building , Georg E. You can get this book on Amazon for $10.00, read it and confirm that the opening conjecture is a fallacy. Box, Willaim G. Hunter, and J.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. reducible and irreducible ?

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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. requires making estimates) ? 255, April 2010.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. What does the team care about?

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MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As the president and founder of Advisicon, Tim has also written over 38 books on PM methodologies and technologies. And so this is where agile kind of fits in and isn’t just necessarily only for software development. But it is clearly not limited to just software.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2019

Newly trained Agilists typically are assigned to join an existing project team by means of an experiment. Most people in the team are unhappy and try to switch projects, but not the Scrum Master. Following initial experiments, organizations get started with a real Scrum team. Pre-Scrum Waterfall . Starting with Early Scrum.

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MPUG

MARCH 18, 2021

Jeff is currently the lead course developer for Edward’s Performance Solution and oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. Kyle: We’re very happy to welcome back Jeff Bongiovani, today.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As the president and founder of Advisicon, Tim has written over 38 books on PM methodologies and technologies. Understand that the focus is right to your team, not on the big picture, we don’t want you to be overwhelmed. So welcome back Tim, and at this time, I’ll go ahead and hand it over to you. Thank you so much.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

His latest contributions being the latest version of the Microsoft Project Do’s and Don’ts book, which is available now on Amazon. And please take note that we have resources in here, we have estimated work, we have duration, we have some completed tasks. So welcome back, Erik. It’s a live demo, so to say.

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