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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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

After taking a break from writing for a few weeks, I was planning to write about the importance of conversation in the work we do, but a late day Mastodon toot caught my attention today: “ Gantt charts are lies “ Based on the hashtags accompanying the post, the author works in the software development domain using adaptive approaches.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 2, 2016

How well did John use risk management to accomplish his goal? He and his team completed a project plan and identified project risks. He captured the risks in his risk register and periodically conducted risk reviews. He skipped capturing his risks and conducting the risk reviews.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 25, 2021

Let’s say a software development team recognizes that they need to improve their code quality and to do this there are many options available. Coding standards, coding reviews, non-solo coding, test-first development, and automated code quality tools are just a few choices.

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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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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Resilience and Risk Management: The prevalent global uncertainties highlight the paramount importance of business and societal resilience and proactive risk management in project initiatives. His latest book, Project Management Next Generation: The Pillars for Organizational Excellence , co-authored with Dr.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

I caught up with Mark so that he could explain that interesting title and talk more about the book. How can project managers identify the early warning signs of a project at risk of late delivery? In a software development organization they increased productivity by more than 500% and achieved 100% release date achievement.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 14, 2023

This iterative approach not only accelerates the delivery of value but also mitigates the risks associated with uncertainty and changing requirements. Reducing Risk, Increasing Visibility One of the significant benefits of incremental delivery is its risk-mitigating capability. Are you interested in learning more about Scrum?

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Inloox

MAY 27, 2021

Entire books have been devoted to explaining this law. As a result, everyone develops an individual level of risk tolerance, which a good project manager must also consider within their team. The very process of identifying a risk eliminates its most damaging characteristic: surprise.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2022

First, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. ?. Large items convey lots of information, are made full of assumptions and therefore carry high risks. Speed of delivery can be quickly "sold" to management. Flow Efficiency over Resource Efficiency.

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PM Basics

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In this article, you’ll find the real-life project risk management plan example. It comes from my practical experience working on software development projects. Below the example, you’ll find all the required information and resources to create your Risk Management Plan quickly and for free. Monitoring Risks.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 16, 2018

I’m midway through Nassim Taleb ‘s latest book, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life. The premise of this book is that without skin in the game, asymmetries emerge which encourage unfairness, poor decision making and can contribute to a lack of understanding of realities.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

Ready to transform your approach to project management and software development? Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. Columns include "Reported," "Confirmed," "In Development," "Testing," and "Deployed."

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The IIL Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

But perhaps the most important responsibility was supporting the project team in risk mitigation efforts when necessary. The risks with using AI can be significant for both customers and contractors, and we can now expect more companies to staff their projects with team members who possess AI knowledge or AI credentials.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Or your projects are accompanied with numerous risks and uncertainties, and you’d like to make your decision-making process more informed by means of analyzing possible consequences. . Jira Software. However, they don’t deal with efficient resource utilization, uncertainties, and risks. Take a look at their brief overview.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

What has always struck me in this discussion is the fact that Scrum is a tool useful to accomplish one primary task: delivering value to customers of emergent products in complex environments while mitigating an organization’s exposure to risk at the same time. Agile software development is not about solving (code) puzzles all day long.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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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?”. And from scientific research to software development. For a more detailed explanation, check the paper we wrote “ Scrum — A Framework To Reduce Risk And Deliver Value Sooner ”.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2019

He literally wrote the book about it, It’s All in How You Slice It , which came out in 2005. The idea of a user story as it applies here comes from software development and product management. A user story is an informal description of one or more software features, written from the perspective of an end user in plain English.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 6, 2022

If you talk to project managers or read through the interviews in my book, Project Manager , you’ll realize that there are as many ways to start a project management career in the field as there are people. I’ve seen this with software developers. It’s a hugely varied job. The projects. Watch out for…. Being a general dogsbody.

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Wrike

MARCH 4, 2015

So while you want to learn more about project management — either to pick up new skills or sharpen the ones you’ve already developed — you don’t have unlimited hours to read every book on the subject. Which project management books are best for your experience level? 23 Project Management Books for All Levels.

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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. reducible and irreducible ? De Meyer, C.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2022

Her book, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital describes the last 200 or so years in terms of 5 technology revolutions. . He says “Software Eats the World, but Everyone Ignores It,” describing the outcome of mass deployment and how as it is adopted more people forget that this is different. Organizations will be flatter.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The book describes topics in network and the complexity of network from physics to computer science, engineering, economics and the social sciences, introduces network science to an interdisciplinary audience. Network Science addresses a topic popular in the agile community but addressed with little or no mathematical foundation. .

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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 ignorance that all project work contains uncertainty, that uncertainty is of two kinds - reducible and irreducible, and that uncertainty is the source of risk. . IT Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 24, 2016

I've started reading Vasco's book #NoEstimates and will write a detailed deconstruction. I got the Kindle version, so I have a $10 investment at risk. Let's start with some graphs that have been around and their misinformation that forms the basis of the book. The book needs a professional editor. IT Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 15, 2017

I posted some comments on the #NoEstimates book awhile back. This is a classic example used in the book of making seriously bad management decisions. . Hofstadter is speaking about the development of a Chess playing program - and doing so from the perspective of 1978 style software development.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 10, 2020

This post is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. The Scrum Framework was developed by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland in the 1990s and first formalized in 1995 to address the inherent complexity of product and software development. Zombie Scrum and the Efficiency Mindset.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2018

Test those solutions, and figure out what risks are inherent. Six Sigma has proven itself adept at working with collaborative teams since the year 2000 when it developed into Lean Six Sigma. This is done with various brainstorming techniques and other problem-solving methods. Lean Six Sigma. Six Sigma and Agile.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 15, 2020

This post is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. It clearly defines who is responsible for certain kinds of risks. In our upcoming book, we describe these in much more detail. Developers to focus on writing software only. Writing software is one part of that.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What are the limitations and risks of metaphor? 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. More on this later under the heading of “risk.” What is a metaphor not ? Story points?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. Though whatever the case, we can say for sure that Scrum is very popular in software development. Introduction.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Long ago there were a set of small books from the Software Program Managers Network and Norm Brown's work on Industrial Strength Management Strategies , which was absorbed by an organization which is no longer around. The Software Program Managers Network produced books. Little Books of Configuration Management.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 3, 2018

Our project management, software development world the more so. . This small, short, easy to read book, will show you the proper response to these unsubstantiated conjecture, without having to resort to the BS term. IT Risk Management. On B t is a classic tale of how our culture is full of bull s**t at every turn.

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International Institute for Learning

JULY 7, 2022

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). ” Software Development 9(8): 28-32. Agile Software Development with Scrum.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 10, 2017

One of the seminal books that started it all is Short-Term Forecasting. This is called Close Loop Control , and that works on all domains where stochastic process underly the work process, from software development, to process control, to flight control systems, the natural systems. IT Risk Management. Related articles.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

We have read books and journal articles on various project management topics. Requests for additional funding could be viewed as a project failure, again creating the risk of a limited career path. To meet the specific needs of working with software development, a new way of working on projects was needed.

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