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. Project Performance Management. Presentations and Briefings.

2003 54

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In the last decade, we have realized that we cannot plan all up front in a linear process to develop software. We are solving complex problems, which require us to use an empirical process, lean UX practices, and a supporting technology platform that allows us to build, measure, learn and apply the learning in a repeatable fashion.

Lean 126

Lean Performance Measurement Innovation Software 126

ProProfs Project Management

JUNE 11, 2019

Measuring the performance of a project against the project baseline has plenty of benefits. Read on to know what is earned value in project management and how EVM is an effective factor when using project management software. Read on to know more about using EVM-based project management software such as ProProfs Project.

Software Review 61

Software Review Software Budget Influencer 61

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

But in a multi-project environment, when more than two projects run in parallel, being focused on a project performance only can be harmful for your organization. Examining Project Progress and Performance: Essence and Key Techniques. Read further to understand why. References. Simplilearn (2022).

Performance Measurement 52

Performance Measurement Software Review 2022 Budget 52

The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 11, 2024

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne in their book “ Blue Ocean Strategy.” You can use various tools like Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Lucid , Google Sheets, or specialized software for creating strategy canvases. Finally, it details the use and benefits of the tool for practicing strategy and project management.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Innovation Sustainability Retail 105

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Here's a paper that has been under constant development for several years now and is headed to a Journal and part of an upcoming book chapter. The motivation for the paper started when there were claims made the somehow agile software projects were different than other types of projects. In practice there are differences.

Software 48

Software Agile Performance Measurement Risk Management 48

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. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

LiquidPlanner

MAY 28, 2020

Check that the change control process is documented, along with risks, assurance, and quality measures. You can ask them to include any performance measures or warranties that you feel are appropriate so that both parties understand how success will be judged. What software will they be using to track their progress?

Software Review 139

Software Review Governance Government Infrastructure 139

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It can be the needed performance of a measure - Effectiveness, Performance, Key Performance Parameter, or a Technical Performance Measures. The specifics of the Technical Performance Measures applied to inform Physical Percent Complete and the Cone of Uncertainty around the TPM are shown here.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

MPUG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A product manager, who works for a large aircraft manufacturing organization in the United States, follows a hybrid model of development and, with his team, releases a new version of aircraft handling software every couple of weeks. In EVM terminology, baseline is further defined as the performance measurement baseline (PMB).

Underperforming Technical Team 59

Underperforming Technical Team Agile Performance Measurement PMI 59

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The original agile author's quote shows that systems engineering is missing from his development of software using Agile. In most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. In Earned Value Management paradigm, progress is always measured as physical percent complete.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

As more and more companies scramble to untangle the code of their monolithic legacy software and get it into the cloud, strategic priorities are shifting. Want the Deck Text HIDDEN to 33777 Video Transcript We will run into times where packing software makes it harder for us to transform the skills of our staff and external vendors.

Software Review 112

Software Review Fractional CTO Technical Review Agile 112

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. Let's look at one example.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

Research shows that for projects, especially software projects Aleatory uncertainty is the predominant source of risk. All making things smaller dos is show that you're late, over budget, and what you're building (Technical Performance Measures) doesn't work faster. I'm not expecting anyone to read all these books.

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

MPUG

JUNE 27, 2022

Examples of re-writing history would be: In USA, if slavery was left out of US history books used in schools. In Canada, if residential schools were not discussed in history books used in schools. Re-baselining your entire project every week is akin to re-writing history or wiping out all your past sins.

Governance 52

Governance Government Estimate Performance Measurement 52

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.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

ProProfs Project Management

APRIL 9, 2020

In his perspective, books are the perfect online product to sell, because they can easily be shipped, hardly get returned, and never expire. Another KPI for project performance measurement is NPS. For higher ROI, exploit unparalleled project management software like ProProfs Project. Net Promoter Score (NPS) .

Monitoring 111

Monitoring Budget Closing Performance Measurement 111

Function Point

JULY 3, 2023

They must prepare financial statements, examine and analyze an agency’s books, and ensure that financial reporting requirements and other accounting standards are met. Their expertise lies in the knowledge of your agency’s nature and the key performance measures.

Performance Measurement 40

Performance Measurement Software Review Finance Leadership 40

Herding Cats

AUGUST 14, 2016

Many blogs, tweets, books are spent of speaking about Value as the priority in agile software development. Without units of measure of Value beyond time and money, there can be not basis of comparison between one value based choice and another. MOP's are attributes that assure the systems to capability to perform.

Performance Measurement 49

Performance Measurement Engineering Lean Software Developers 49

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. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Wrike

JULY 1, 2020

For instance, if the IT team is developing new software for the company to use, HR may be asked to help build the training plan for user adoption. . It’s one of the 10 major project management process areas in the PMBOK (Project Management Book of Knowledge). Establishing productivity and performance measures for the team.

Underperforming Technical Team 36

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Performance Measurement Executing 36

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When we hear of the difficulties of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty, especially about software features and capabilities, there are straightforward ways to solve this problem. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Mathematically, the value equals performance over cost plus time.

Technical Review 47

Technical Review 2010 2014 Software Developers 47

Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Rarely the case in software development, where Little's Law is misused often. The OP claimed Goodhart's Law was the source of most of the problems with software development. What this says is again when the measure becomes the target, that target impacts the measure, changing the target. . No measures of effectiveness.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Estimate Software Developers Software Development 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. In the book is the mention of the Cone of Uncertainty as it applies to managing in the presence of uncertanty. 37–48, 2007.

2012 29

2012 2007 2010 2006 29

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In software development, those managing the project have some understanding the market forces (from their marketing departments), the technology (from their engineering department), and how to manage in the presence of Aleatory and Epistemic risk (the managers running a successful firm). Software projects are non-ergodic.

Software Review 34

Software Review Technical Review Estimate Software Developers 34

Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

Two Books in the Spectrum of Software Development. With all this in place - to whatever scale is appropriate for the problem at hand, we need the final pieces. There, now we've got Principles, Processes, and Practices all connected. Related articles. We've Been Doing This for 20 Years. Applying the Right Ideas to the Wrong Problem.

Process 53

Process Engineering Software Developers Software Development 53

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. Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. I was used to different software.

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59