Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

wrote The Mythical Man Month, he provided project managers with the valuable caution which later was named Brooks’ Law: “ Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later “ While there are always exceptions, this statement is generally true. as well as a number of other online book stores).

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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. It was mathematically based, converting equations in books to Fortran using pre-written parts from the IBM Scientific Subroutine Package. Software-intensive systems include: .

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Herding Cats

MAY 17, 2017

Agile software development is a software development process. Herding Cats: How to Talk About Estimates. Herding Cats: Book of the Month. It is popular to state that Agile IS Risk Management - but that is not correct. Risk Management is a process as well. But Agile alone is not Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I work in a domain where engineered systems are developed for complex software-intensive system of systems. These systems are engineered with a variety of development methods. These systems are developed for external and internal customers. Let's start with the core issue on all software development projects.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2022

What about a forward estimation if stories are generated just in time? For example, does UX research for the next thing while developers deliver the current? Do you refer to OKRs in general or to OKRs as you define them in your OKR book? How to deal with bug fixes and the sorts? OKRs drive your backlog. Allan Kelly on Twitter.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2020

I believe Agile software development is more than ready to use new forecasting techniques to express uncertainy to narrow their decision-making process. These new forecasting techniques are not based on estimations but historical data, thus saving time on the part of developers to focus on what they do best.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Here's a collection of downloadable books that can be the resources needed to address these problems. These books and other contain fundamental definitions, rules, and theorems that provide a foundation that renders probability an important tool for evaluating scientific and engineering systems. Introduction to Probability.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2022

He is also the co-author of the Kanban Guide and author of the books “Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability” and “When Will It Be Done?”. How do you estimate the impact on the throughput when adding new people to the team? And from scientific research to software development. So, What’s The Verdict?

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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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Herding Cats

MARCH 23, 2017

In the estimating business, like many things in project management, there is confusion about principles, practices, and processes. A good estimation approach should provide estimates that are within 25% of the actual results, 75% of the time. The book this statement comes from is Conte, S. Dunsmore and V.Y.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 5, 2022

What about a forward estimation if stories are generated just in time? For example, does UX research for the next thing while developers deliver the current? Do you refer to OKRs in general or to OKRs as you define them in your OKR book? How to deal with bug fixes and the sorts? OKRs drive your backlog.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 24, 2016

I've started reading Vasco's book #NoEstimates and will write a detailed deconstruction. Let's start with some graphs that have been around and their misinformation that forms the basis of the book. If the project was over budget, was the needed budget estimate correct? The book needs a professional editor.

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Herding Cats

MAY 23, 2016

Estimating is part of all decision making in the presence of uncertainty. Accuracy and precision are two primary attributes of all estimates. We all know estimates are hard. But there are lots of hard things in the development of enterprise software. Estimating is part of all engineering disciplines.

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MPUG

APRIL 29, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Oliver Gildersleeve’s Analogous and Parametric Estimating Schedule Template webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. The new schedule template covers both analogous and parametric estimating features. Kyle: More on Oliver. Oliver: Thank you Kyle.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

I work in a domain where engineered systems are developed for complex software-intensive system of systems. These systems are engineered with a variety of development methods. These systems are developed for external and internal customers. Ranging from traditional to agile and combinations in between.

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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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Herding Cats

MAY 9, 2017

It seems of late there is a campaign in the software development community, especially in the agile community where ignorance is a virtue. The book The Death of Expertise is a continuation of a paper by the author in the Federalist. This book explains how the death of expertise has now crept into most corners of must domains.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 3, 2018

Our project management, software development world the more so. . The classic that happened yesterday was yet another misuse of the Standish Report, long debunked, to claim estimates p[rovide no value, in fact, estimates are the source of the reason why projects fail. Related articles. IT Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 10, 2017

I've been working in the probabilistic estimating business for a decade or two. . One of the seminal books that started it all is Short-Term Forecasting. As well - of course - is the nonsense that Forecasts are not estimates, popularized by #NoEstimates advocates. The Flaw of Averages and Not Estimating. Do The Math.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Project resource management : Toggl Plan’s team Availability Overview lets you visualize team members’ bookings and capacity over a given period to assign the best available resources to the project. Project progress overview : Track a project’s progress by comparing the estimated vs actual effort spent on tasks.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

This book is a very useful even if you're not using SAFe, there is invaluable content in the book, including many pages on estimating. As well as this book, at the Agile Meetup Charles provided a link to an Agility Guide and the site EB Management with lots of resources on Empirical Management.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Third, how are we reproducing working tests in software? They may also be writing user stories, using burn-down charts, and practicing agile estimating and planning. Over the past 20 to 25 years, I’ve come across various books and resources that I believe people should read. First, how are we forming teams?

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Of course, all three of these are operating in the presence of uncertainty and therefore require estimates to be made. Estimates of the aleatory and epistemic uncertainties that create risk to the delivered Value need to be handled. All three pieces of information are needed.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

It’s interesting to me that in the software field we habitually sling buzzwords around as if we were talking about real Things, when in fact the buzzwords are only metaphors. “Velocity” in software development doesn’t mean velocity. Estimated hours completed? It’s only a metaphor.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 24, 2016

One of the escape clauses of #Noestimates is to re-label Forecasting as NOT Estimating , It is forecasting, based on empirical data. This is in comparison for estimating purpose for a theoretical model that produces data, parametric from empirical or theoretical models that produce data. All are estimates about some outcome.

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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. Or if I just need a high level estimate, we can take time to actually do the planning later.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate.

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MPUG

JULY 15, 2019

Now, imagine a software development project. Also, in software development, requirement change is the rule, rather than the exception. In this case, a traveler is booking a flight ticket. Once have your stories, you break them down to tasks, which can be estimated in hours. Choosing the travel date = Need.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Estimation is pretentious rationalism, where rationalism does not serve us well (extremistan)(sic) Take only risks you can survive. These estimates can not the ultimate truth since the underlying processes that create the uncertainties (aleatory and epistemic) are stochastic in nature - stationary or nonstationary. The Fallacy.

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Herding Cats

MAY 15, 2019

The development of software, using other peoples money (OPM) means - or should mean - that those providing the money have an expectation to know How Much Money , along with When well you be done spending that money and provide me the Value I bought with that money ? Quickly estimate issues. So What can Story Points tell Us?

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Herding Cats

MAY 29, 2018

And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which, it will be convenient to distinguish them into Absolute and Relative, True and Apparent, Mathematical and Common - Issac Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica , Book I, def. From The Order of Time , Carlo Rovelli , Riverhead Books, 2017. VIII, scholium.

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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. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 20, 2019

Expert judgment is typically the crux of cost and schedule estimates but in the spectrum of the risk management process, quantification of expert judgment is the weakest area - Fred Raymond, Acquistion Review Quarterly - Spring 199.,

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Workzone

JULY 18, 2022

As of January 2022, there are over 450 project management software solutions on the market, according to Software Advice ! With so many choices available, you’re likely wondering which software is right for your team. Top 3 Benefits of Project Management Software. Ranking the Best Project Management Software.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 27, 2018

First let’s keep the concept of ROI basic, which is in this context: Applying this equation to a real-life example, if the cost for rolling out a SMILE activity = $10,000 and the estimated value of the program is $100,000 (considering quantitative and/or qualitative factors such as listed above): This number is not exaggerated.

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Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Oleg Skrynnik wrote the book DevOps a business perspective. The book is built around 6 chapters. The evolution of Agile software development methods created the need for a new approach to IT management. It’s the core literature for the EXIN DevOps Foundation certification and gives a good overview of DevOps.

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