Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Paul Boos has a post about estimating and makes a case for the Principles of when NOT to estimate. This struck a cord around a bigger topic - the inversion of estimating. When should we NOT estimate? Then on to the original conjecture for No Estimates from Paul's post. That is, to make decision with “No estimates”.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate. hours, personnel needed, and/or tasks) to ensure that a project can be completed on time and within budget.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

For example, about which software to buy, which Features in the development backlog should be implemented next, what prices to charge for products and services. Software development is an exercise in microeconomics, since it deals with limited resources - time, cost, and what value is produced in exchange for the time and money.

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

The project manager is responsible for coordinating the work of the team, monitoring progress, and making any necessary adjustments to ensure that the project is completed on time and within budget. Constraints typically relate to schedule, resources, budget, and scope. government began using it to manage complex defense projects.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, the digital transformation market was estimated at a whopping $731.1 However, as IT projects often require a deeper understanding of technology, many IT PMs have a background in software development or IT support. Manages a defined project budget. ?️ billion in 2022 — with no signs of slowing down.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population. The estimate can also be produced parametrically or through a simulation (Monte Carlo is common, but Method of Moments is another we use). . Estimates can be about the past, present, or future.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. This domain has turned into the S oftware Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) paradigm that dominates software development activities today. Software-intensive systems include: . Related articles.

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Project Bliss

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Budget – estimated cost of the project. Technology – this could cover software development, platforms, environments, and infrastructure. Budget – estimated cost of the project. Project costs will stay the same as initially budgeted costs. Category (resource, delivery, budget, etc.).

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Estimate a project timeframe: Create time estimates for each task. and add that to your cost estimate. You should let the client know that your estimates are, in fact, just estimates and not a fixed cost. Review task estimates and actuals regularly and communicate any significant deviations to the client.

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

A project charter is a brief, formal document outlining the scope, objectives, budget, and stakeholders of a project. Define project timelines: Project charters include an estimated project schedule for the project to be completed. Try Wrike’s work plan template What is a project charter and why do you need one?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2019

A critical success factor for a software development project is how it is funded. But greater flexibility generally requires a more skillful approach to governance and project management. But greater flexibility generally requires a more skillful approach to governance and project management.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 15, 2016

Here's the IT budget for the Federal Government. Estimating and Making Decisions in Presence of Uncertainty. This is larger than all the IT systems found everywhere else in the world, plus all their custom built IT stuff. This is not the embedded systems. These are business systems. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. There are not specific to Agile Software Development. You're late and over budget before you start, and have lowered the probability of technical success. These describe the increasing maturity of the project's artifacts. But here's how they are connected.

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

If you want to see more ERP providers with a list of software with end-user feedback h e re. You can also take a look at Enlyft’s list of ERPs and their estimated market shares here. How does ERP Software Selection Work? What is Your Budget? What is Your Budget? What is Your Team Like? What does Your Team Want?

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

If you want to see more ERP providers with a list of software with end-user feedback h e re. You can also take a look at Enlyft’s list of ERPs and their estimated market shares here. . How does ERP Software Selection Work? What is Your Budget? What is Your Budget? Important Things to Consider for Your Budget.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

Software development is a Value Creaton activity, but Value cannot be determined unless we know the cost to produce that value and when that value will be available for use by those who of paid for that Value. For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Microeconomics .

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This is a good starting point for answering the mail on the notion that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impact of those decisions. Estimates are for the business, why would the business no longer want an estimate of cost, schedule, or technical performance of the provided capabilities?

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 2, 2017

So the first part is following standard estimating principles. which states clearly and concisely that decisions can be made (in the presence of uncertainty - which is ALWAYS present on software development projects - without estimating the impact of those decisions. From large construction to software development.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. This is a serious mistake for any non-trivial project or product that operates in the presence of uncertainty, deadlines, not-t-exceed budgets, and mandatory sets of capabilities that are produced in exchange for money.

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MPUG

APRIL 15, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Lead Course Developer 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 cybersecurity. Estimating has not changed.

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Workzone

JANUARY 5, 2021

Whenever you reprioritize the tasks in a project, or your available resources change, this software will automatically update the task and project completion dates across your whole portfolio. Another nifty feature is the integrated time and budget tracking, making it easy to keep on budget. Pricing: $69/user/month. user/month.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute. Estimates of cost, schedule, technical performance on the left have a lower probability of being precise and accurate than estimates on the right. Economics of Software Development.

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Planio

JUNE 19, 2023

In fact, studies have shown that around 27% of projects fail because of inaccurate task estimates, with another 11% failing due to undefined task dependencies. navy in the 1950s, the Program Evaluation Review Technique (or PERT) helps project managers worldwide estimate, plan, and visualize their projects in a way that allows them to succeed.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What Resources will be needed to reach Done?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 14, 2016

the continued paradigm of deadline-driven development is killing the benefits that Agile Software Development can bring. But the conjecture that Executives of software product and service companies always want stuff delivered faster, cheaper and better. Agile Software Development in the DOD.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. Well, because according to PMI, the Project Management Institute, 45% of projects experience scope expansion, 32% failed on their budgeting, and 16% were deemed complete failures. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

This is a good starting point for not only Scrum and other agile methods, that can be used to test the validity of any method suggested to replace or augment the current agile software development processes. Your Project Needs a Budget and Other Things. How to Avoid the "Yesterday's Weather" Estimating Problem.

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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. Of late, Cone of Uncertainty has become the mantra of No Estimates advocates claiming that data is needed BEFORE the Cone is of any use.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). the beginning of a project, comparatively little is known about the product or work results, and so estimates are subject to large uncertainty.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). the beginning of a project, comparatively little is known about the product or work results, and so estimates are subject to large uncertainty.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute (in this post, cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Economics of Software Development. Herding Cats: Economics of Software Development. Estimating Probabilistic Outcomes?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What Resources will be needed to reach Done?

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty. The BLUE bars are the probabilistic ranges of the current estimate date.

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