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. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. This uncertainty creates risk, which can be reduced through specific actions. (2)

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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. This software development process focuses on the capabilities within the team to deliver optimal outcomes.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In particular, the high level of PMM means that: Projects are delivered on time and budget; Risks and changes don’t derail projects; Projects are aligned with a company’s business objectives; The delivered output meets stakeholder expectations; A company is competitive on the market. . Book a call with our expert. .

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 1, 2016

Having spent years at Expedia working to make travel booking technology faster and more scalable, Charles and I witnessed first-hand how difficult it was for the all of the teams within Expedia to plan and execute work accurately. LiquidPlanner is the only predictive scheduling engine on the market. Humble Beginnings. See how we do it.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Perform Risk Management. Consider introducing risk management measures such as simulations and predictions to be ready for the bottlenecks that might compromise your projects in the future. For effective risk management, it might be reasonable to consider using a project management tool such as Epicflow.

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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. One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management. 37–48, 2007.

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Planio

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Book extra one-on-ones in the first few months. Organize “show and tells” for engineers to show off what they’ve been building. And as much as technology and remote tools have helped us feel closer than ever, there’s always an inherent risk and disconnect when you’re talking to someone hundreds or thousands of miles away.

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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. An estimate is.

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Teamweek

APRIL 1, 2021

Many software tools help you capture, prioritize, and organize your work — from simple to-do lists to visual Kanban boards. It was developed by Dai Clegg, a software engineer, during his tenure at Oracle. Thanks to Bryan Tracy’s method and his book — Eat That Frog! It’s a risk that you have to live with.

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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. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Ranging from traditional to agile and combinations in between. illities are a waste.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 23, 2017

The book this statement comes from is Conte, S. Software Engineering Metrics and Models. In our NASA Software Intensive System of Systems business, we need an 80% confidence basis of estimate in the proposal - A 20% MRE. And download the paper that followed " A Software Metrics Survey. Dunsmore and V.Y.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. Gano, Atlas Books, 2007. What factors lead to software project failure?”

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Leading Agile

MAY 25, 2023

Solid technical practices and your full-stack developer’s software craftsmanship are also limited by the conditions inside your organization. And so what we were talking about was the idea, on theme for the last couple of these recordings of, what are the necessary preconditions to be able to do software craftsmanship well?

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The CoU is a build-to paradigm, where measures of the program's performance cumulative to date is used to inform the risk for future performance. But much has been done since then, and referring to the 1981 book is bad research method. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , 57 (4), pp. The original idea came in 1981.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2019

Now that a software “Done” Milestone is more like a Tombstone. As software becomes more critical to business operations and product offerings we are seeing that software projects do not end. Many organizations are transitioning to become software focussed organizations that offer specialized services. October 2018.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 9, 2017

My early metrics book, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation (Prentice Hall/Yourdon Press, 1982) , played a role in the way many budding software engineers quantified work and planned their projects. […] The book’s most quoted line is its first sentence: “You can’t control what you can’t measure.”

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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

This was my starting point for becoming a software engineer rather than a physicist, by the way. . What book did you not read? IT Risk Management. Hooked up to the experiment was a series of oscilloscopes with Poloride cameras attached to capture the signal of something interesting to the Principle Investigators.

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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

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. Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. This extended post covers.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. Individual contributor team, lead section, lead project manager, program manager, director of engineering. Are we doing good change and risk management? All projects have risks.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Most of these roles were based on aspects of IT operation, such as mainframe operation and maintenance, which later evolved into software development and commercialisation. LEAN processes emerged in 1991, with the Agile Manifesto launched by a group of software engineers in 2001.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Before choosing a specific tool though, you need to decide on the type of project management software you need. And choosing from the many different project management software types can be quite a challenge. Types of project management software based on the use case. Project and resource planning software.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

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. Let me point out an obvious problem - software projects go over budget and are late. Same for the Ambler surveys.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

customers is because it delivers the best artificial intelligence tools for project and task management, for a fraction of the cost of bespoke software engineering solutions. AI as a writer Drafting high-quality content for books, education materials, or blogs takes time.

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PM Basics

JULY 1, 2020

For sure, the easiest way to become a software project manager is by getting a promotion inside an IT company. 3 Top Reason to Become a Software Project Manager this Year. When you are aiming for the IT sector you must know SDLC: Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management. Yes, it is. Here are three main reasons: 1.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

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. So the first thing to do is answer the question. But it's pure bunk.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

Thus, I’ll share her contact and the book we’ll be discussing today in our survey email, following the event. He has lead projects that introduce durable goods, create hardware and software, integrate hardware and software and he’s brought up manufacturing facilities globally. Cindy, a big MPUG welcome back.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 20, 2022

You probably already know—Agile isn’t just for software developers anymore. After all, Agile projects deliver proven value in software projects: Higher profit More meaningful projects and client relationships Greater productivity Clearer communication. Buzzword alert. Enhances creativity. Build a glossary of terms.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Probabilistic over Deterministic is standard estimating processes in every single book, paper, guideline, policy, and regulations governing the development in use of estimates in commercial (ITIL) and Government (all agency and GAO Estimating handbooks). There is no way out of this when using staff to develop software.

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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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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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments. For software development starts with.

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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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Define the risks - reducible and irreducible - to each Capability and their Features.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Satya is a management professional, speaker, coach and author of six books, including the book I Want To Be An ACP. For example, last year, they audited a number of books into the ACP certification reference and they removed also a number of books. Now you’re thinking, how about mechanical engineer I just said.

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Planio

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Supercharge your focus and time management with our massive Guide to Becoming a More Productive Software Engineer. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. In the book, Chris outlines a simple prioritization process he calls the Decision-Making Matrix.

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