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APRIL 27, 2018

Online gaming collaboration can be traced back to the introduction of the personal computer and software developers and came to life in the early 1990s when the Internet was introduced. Since that time, I have delivered speaking engagements on an international basis that discuss concepts from this book. And much more….

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Herding Cats

MAY 23, 2016

So why is estimating a topic that seems to be the whipping boy for software developers these days? My first inclination is that estimating is not taught very well in the software arts. This book comes with a spreadsheet for making the needed estimates to increase the probability of project success.

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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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PM Basics

JUNE 25, 2018

Roles, hiring processes, and the entire paradigm is about to shift. Marketing, finance, and even construction are now adopting an Agile development framework. Agile applies tools, processes, and organizational design concepts through software development methodology to make programs all-around more efficient.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This method is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Saaty. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Brown and his book The Handbooks of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management and my review of the same book.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

That removes stereotyping, unconscious bias , and familiarity bias from your recruitment process and helps you diversify your talent pool. When you want to optimize your hiring process for speed and efficiency. Software development) Soft skills Remote hiring Multi-level assessments. Remote hiring can be hard.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. They are not the same, the processes of decision making are not the same.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. They are not the same, the processes of decision making are not the same.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

Can the average organization actually become a disruptive leader just by adopting the structures, tools and processes from the real disruptive leaders? As organizations realize software represents a market differentiator, they recognize their systems will never be “done.” However, what really happens?   Summary.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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. Here's a few that serve us well.

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Estimate Software Engineering Engineering Risk Management 28

Proofhub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

It should be able to automate simple tasks and develop an understanding of key elements. Now here is the paradox, apart from the processes, Project Management has a strong human element to it, which in my opinion is the most critical part. Considering this fact, can AI and bots make inroads into a project manager’s life?

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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

MAY 8, 2016

Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Here are some books and papers that can provide you with all the tools needed to learn to estimate in the presence of uncertainty. Ask the person making those conjectures if they have read the books.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Scrum is) more defined rather than empirical process. This took me back since Scrum is derived from an empirical closed loop control system developed in the USAF by Col. A good book on Boyd is Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War. I came across a couple of interesting tweets over the weekend. Agile in name only.

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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. Other work in website development, others work in internal IT shops. Two Books in the Spectrum of Software Development.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

Can the average organization actually become a disruptive leader just by adopting the structures, tools and processes from the real disruptive leaders? As organizations realize software represents a market differentiator, they recognize their systems will never be “done.” However, what really happens?   Summary.

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Technical Review Agile Lean Sustainability 60

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

When we hear a suggestion about a process that inverts the logic of normal business activities based on a governance framework - say Microeconomics of Software Development, we need to ask who benefits? But that has nothing to do with the principles, practices, and processes of writing code using current languages and tools.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp.

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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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Appfluence

DECEMBER 14, 2018

While product management as the modern discipline that it is today is most often associated with software development, it is recommended for all industries and actually got its start in consumer goods. 1980s-Product Management in Software Development. Flexibility to Changes. Product teams need to be responsive to changes.

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Workzone

JULY 18, 2022

Tools like the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK ), provide the project management community with standard terminology, tools, and frameworks to help make sense of a wide array of projects and achieve positive outcomes more consistently. Ranking the Best Project Management Software.

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Leading Agile

MAY 25, 2023

Mike Cottmeyer: He really just had to suspend disbelief and kind of throw himself into this whole process in transformation world. I think that that’s the big thing in my mind from a support from Scrum masters or support outside of the development team, is understanding all of those feedback loops and how to work towards reducing them.

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Appfluence

DECEMBER 14, 2018

While product management as the modern discipline that it is today is most often associated with software development, it is recommended for all industries and actually got its start in consumer goods. 1980s-Product Management in Software Development. Flexibility to Changes. Product teams need to be responsive to changes.

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Technical Review Defining Logistics Software Review 28

Planio

JANUARY 16, 2023

Unlike a software developer, graphic designer, or accountant, your job isn't to do the doing , your job is to ensure the doing gets done. First, get to know the right people in the finance team - they’ll become your best friends when it comes to managing your project budget. So, what are the first things you should do?

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MPUG

JANUARY 4, 2021

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. Banks have essentially been software developing organizations for a long time.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process. This is simply good process development and management. What is the Root Cause of the process not being trusted? Or are you taking observations and deciding that the process is broken without finding the actual cause of the undesirable outcomes?

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Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Agency growth is the process of expanding your agency’s operations and capabilities by growing its client base, enhancing its service offerings, and strengthening its team to meet demand. This is where process improvements and using automation for more tedious management tasks become a critical part of growing an agency.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability Software Review 52

Herding Cats

JANUARY 2, 2017

One of the principles of agile development is self-organizing teams. Self-Organizing is a powerful process. This is paradigm is usually found at the Enterprise level of software development. In this case, there are others who are Accountable for delivery working software. Not designing and developing the software.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process. This is simply good process development and business management. What is the Root Cause of the process not being trusted? The notion of waterfall development on slide 9 as actually prohibited in our domain. Have you done a Root Cause Analysis?

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Proofhub

AUGUST 22, 2019

There are things like analytics, financing, marketing, or task management that companies should think about even before they launch. Hence, you need software to track, receive, and maintain finances. Make sure that the payment process is clear and easy for your clients. Table of Contents Step 1. What do we mean here?

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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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Hub Planner

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

By going with the Premium Plan you also have the option to pay via invoice which is handy for the finance and billing department. Billing Rates allows you to apply a unique rate to a Booking, Resource or indeed Project within an internal and external capacity. Move All (Project Selected) Bookings from All Resources along Timeline.

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ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 2, 2021

Kanban is something that allows you to easily manage your work, especially as it goes through a process. It visualizes both the process, your workflow, and actual work passing through the defined process. The ultimate goal of the Kanban process is to identify the bottlenecks in your project and fix them to save cost and time.

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Paymo App

JANUARY 19, 2018

Some of your duties will include: taking part in the creation process, executing the project, preparing communication methods, finding solutions to recurring issues, monitoring the project’s progress from start to finish, and many more. solid understanding of business cases and risk management processes. No project is the same.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2018

The books of Taleb are focused on the Macroeconomics of public finance and the institutions that serve them. Taleb writes books about how unexpected things happen sometimes and how he’s much smarter than everyone else. [1] — from the prologue of Fooled by Randomness. The Punch Line.

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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. With what appears to be NO understanding of how to estimate, this author ignores the processes used in developing products or services in the presence of uncertainty.

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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. For software development starts with. Adaptability is of little use if you don't know the boundaries of the technology, processes, and uncertainties of the problem.

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