Herding Cats

JANUARY 2, 2017

Specifying the decision rights and accoutability framework to encourage desirable behaviours in the developemnt and use of information technology and its supporting services. - IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Risght for Superier Results , Weill and Ross, Harvard Business School Proess. In The End. Spend away. [1]

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Wrike

MARCH 15, 2024

In contrast, the customizable dashboards in our project management platform — Wrike — give you total, real-time, personalized visibility of your entire project. Try Wrike for free Book a demo Why switch to project management dashboard software? Provide personalized views for managers and team members.

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Leading Answers

MAY 1, 2020

Neither black nor white, predictive nor agile, project managers are increasingly finding themselves in the gray area of hybrid project management. Either way, sometimes we do not get to do everything by the book and we have to work with what we are given. Does it include finance, HR and sales?

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Agile Finance Executing 2020 88

The IIL Blog

APRIL 27, 2018

SMILE cost may also take into consideration the amount of time that people are spending on developing the “gaming activity” during work hours as well as participating in it. So COMMON SENSE should be at the forefront to manage the perception of how these activities are facilitated. The COMMON CENTS philosophy means: C = Calculate.

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Software Review 2004 2012 PMI 121

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

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. The risks related to performance, cost, and time must also be considered.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. This would be like saying, risk management is a waste , control system engineering is a waste, thermal analysis of the computer system is a waste, assessment of the reliability, repairability, survivability - all the. illities are a waste.

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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. Nassim Taleb’s books make use of the concept of a “Black Swan.” Pich, Christoph H.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

There are mysteries to managing in the presence of uncertainty for those who understand the principles of Risk Management of cost, schedule, and technical performance and know how to apply them using Managerial Finance, Microeconomics of Software Development, and Probabilities Decision making.

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Finance Estimate Engineering Risk Management 34

Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

To learn more about automated candidate screening, check out how Proxify managed to shorten their time-to-hire to just 12.5 Many assessment tools focus on technical jobs and leave companies short when they want to hire roles in marketing, finance, or customer support. days using technical screening tests. . 2 – Codility.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Developers 52

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. Nassim Taleb’s books make use of the concept of a “Black Swan.” Pich, Christoph H.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 25, 2016

Managerial Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty Ari Riabacke. There are 100's more books, papers, conference proceedings on the topic of decision making in the presence of uncertanty. Software development decision making is a well studied subset of that field. Here's a starting point to learn that simply not true

2008 44

2008 Finance Estimate Software Developers 44

Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and management. Yes, this is the basis of any closed loop control system from keeping the room temperature at a specific setting, to the speed control on your car, to managing software development projects in the presence of uncertainty. Have you done a Root Cause Analysis?

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Estimate Software Developers 40

Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2018

Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. The books of Taleb are focused on the Macroeconomics of public finance and the institutions that serve them. Let us call it antifragile. 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. For any Agile development tools (Rally, JIRA, Team Foundation Server) have embedded tools for making these charts. What is the Value at Risk for your Project?

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ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 2, 2021

Project managers need an amazing channel to keep track of all the tasks and monitor the progress of every team. An all-in-one solution for project managers to march towards the success of their projects and teams. An all-in-one solution for project managers to march towards the success of their projects and teams. Manage Flow.

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Software Review Lean Technical Review Agile 98

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

These systems are developed for external and internal customers. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. Paradigm of agile project management from Glen Alleman. .

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

The goal:  Agile transformations move organizations from working with traditional project management approaches to using agile approaches. The evaluate-as-you-go and learn-as-you-go aspects of iterative and incremental development help organizations manage complexity and uncertainty.   Agile Transformations.

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Technical Review Agile Lean Sustainability 116

Proofhub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Project Management is a specialist’s job. But by calling it a specialist’s job, I am in no way undermining the fact, that a typical project manager needs to wear multiple hats at work. prioritize and delegate accordingly and manage the budget. Considering this fact, can AI and bots make inroads into a project manager’s life?

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Underperforming Technical Team 2030 PMO Artificial Inteligence 60

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. And then some more resources for managing in the presence of complexity . A complexity primers for systems engineers.

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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. If we take Tim Lister's advice about managing risk while spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty, where is the adult supervision here? . .

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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. Start managing on ProofHub.” CRM How do you manage your customers’ data? Table of Contents Step 1.

Finance 42

Finance Software Review Technical Review 2019 42

Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and business management. Yes, this is the basis of any closed loop control system from keeping the room temperature for a specific setting, to the speed control on your car, to managing software development projects in the presence of uncertainty, using any software method you choose.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Estimate Development Team Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

It has many good concepts, one serious math error, and connects well with how we manage and work billion dollar programs. If you're looking for motivation for estimates outside of the domain where the customer doesn't really care about the final cost, just the final product developed inside a "level of effort" budget, look here and remember.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

is not founded on any principle of business management, microeconomics of decision making, or principles of probability and statistics. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Ask the person making those conjectures if they have read the books.

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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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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

ActiveCollab

APRIL 18, 2017

You’ve probably heard about all sorts of project management certifications and wonder whether it’s worth having one. If some organization uses some project management framework, you need to get certified. If you want to manage projects better, certification won’t help you much. Each certificate is different.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

A good book on Boyd is Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War. Anyone suggesting otherwise either hasn't the knowledge of closed loop control systems or is try to sell you something that violates the principles of closed loop control, microeconomics of decision making, or managerial finance. IT Risk Management.

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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? So let's look at what's being said here about managing software development in the presence of uncertainty using other people's money.

Estimate 28

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

The goal:  Agile transformations move organizations from working with traditional project management approaches to using agile approaches. The evaluate-as-you-go and learn-as-you-go aspects of iterative and incremental development help organizations manage complexity and uncertainty.   Agile Transformations.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Agile Lean Sustainability 60

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Although the poster is filled with logical fallacies, like cherry picking personal anecdotes, inversion of economic concept (focus on value, with no consideration for the cost to produce that value), the notion that requesting or even requiring estimates is the source of management dysfunction. Estimates can be made of anything knowable.

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Leading Agile

MAY 25, 2023

What I’m really talking about is to your project managers, to your team leads, to your executive teams around what kind of conditions they need to create for you so that we can do Agile and Agile engineering practices really well. What other questions that you might have? And before that I was a boil the ocean architect. Did it work?

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review CTO Hire 62

Paymo App

JANUARY 19, 2018

Are you preparing to become a project manager but you don’t know where to start? We’ve put together an extensive guide for you to serve as a beginning point and reference for your future career as a project manager. – the basic personality traits of a good manager. What does a project manager actually do?

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2018 Prince2 Certification Technical Review 111

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. With so many choices available, you’re likely wondering which software is right for your team.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

He’s an accomplished speaker, consultant and educator supporting the project management community for over 25 years. And as the president and founder of Advisor Com, Tim has written over 38 books on PM methodologies and technologies. Or we’re doing another project management methodology that we have to stick to.

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