Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

All software development projects operate in the presence of uncertainty. The design and development of software must rely on estimation, forecasts, and predictions based on an idealized understanding of what is an unknown (but knowable) understanding of reality. This uncertainty is unavoidable.

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Scoro

JULY 13, 2021

Each task is depicted as a horizontal bar (usually color-coded), the length of which is the task’s estimated duration. The Gantt chart has retained all of its basic components since its introduction to manufacturing in the 1890s. The first real-time Gantt chart from Scoro Software. Software development.

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Software Review Construction Software Developers Software Development 94

Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

The conference committee encourages everyone to prepare papers on one of the relevant topics, among which there are: Managing people, Managing projects, Software management activities, Project execution and monitoring, Empirical estimation technique, Critical path analysis. Pricing: starting from 100 EUR.

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2021 Technical Review Construction Software Review 98

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2018

There's a fallacy used by some in the software development business, that estimates are not needed to make decisions in the presence of uncertainty. Here's an example of the probability distribution of a cost estimate for a project. Most IT projects have some made up budget and schedule. Related articles.

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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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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A good chunk of the ERP market is dominated by buyers from manufacturing companies. Most of the end-users of this software choose a software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud ERP application over their on-premise counterparts. If you want to see more ERP providers with a list of software with end-user feedback h e re.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 62

TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A good chunk of the ERP market is dominated by buyers from manufacturing companies. . Most of the end-users of this software choose a software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud ERP application over their on-premise counterparts. If you want to see more ERP providers with a list of software with end-user feedback h e re.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 62

Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 12, 2021

His(her) key responsibilities are to engage stakeholders and communicate with them, plan the project, prioritize tasks, and keep track of the project flow to make sure it’s within time and budget frames. As, for example, an IT project manager orchestrates IT projects and leads corresponding teams in their software development efforts.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

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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Process Estimate Software Developers Software Development 45

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2017

For software development, there are many decisions to be made. What Feature to develop next ? Do we have enough time and money to develop the needed Features before the business needs to put those Features to work earned back their investment? Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain.

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Software Software Engineering Estimate Manufacturing 51

ProProfs Project Management

DECEMBER 5, 2019

There are many approaches to project management, especially in software development. Among these, waterfall project management is one of the more interesting ones, seeing as it stems from the old days of the construction and manufacturing industries; it was not specifically designed with software development in mind.

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Software Review Construction Software Developers Software Development 78

Herding Cats

APRIL 13, 2018

Estimation locks down choices early through upfront t decision making, #NoEstimates preserves options. Real Options can be used to address the gap found in traditional capital budgeting methods. If you google "Real Options software development" or "real options ICT" you'll find these and many dozens more. Here's a sample.

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2008 2002 Estimate Software Engineering 32

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. Some feel that the cone does not provide any value for the work they do and does not match the reducing uncertainty in their estimates.

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Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Definition DevOps: “ DevOps is an evolution of the ideas of agile software development and lean manufacturing, applied to the end-to-end value chain in IT, which allows businesses to achieve more with modern information technology due to cultural, organizational and technical changes ”.

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Software Review Technical Review Lean Infrastructure 49

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Organizations that use a methodology: 38% meet budget. VS. Organizations that don’t use a methodology: 31% meet budget. 18% — Delivered within budget. 75% of highly agile organizations met their goals/business intent, 65% finished on time, and 67% finished within budget. Manufacturing. 28% stay on schedule.

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2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

MARCH 21, 2018

In the absence of omniscience, efforts to predict to any useful degree of certainty what events will have an effect the work and whether these uncertainties will occur require careful consideration and of course estimates needed to assess the presence and impacts of Epistemic and Aleatory uncertainties that create risk. . Related articles.

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Risk Estimate Risk Management Manufacturing 47

Herding Cats

MARCH 18, 2018

This analog signal is the underlying dynamics of the software development process. The digital signal is the information needed to determine the physical percent complete of the dynamic software development process. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. The Punch Line. Related articles.

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Risk Management Risk Estimate Closing 41

ProProfs Project Management

AUGUST 7, 2020

Nokia is a vivid example in this context, as this mobile manufacturing company had refused to accept Android OS and decided to swim upstream. Are You Ready to Develop a Perfect Agile Plan? Agile project planning is a method to estimate work through self-contained work units called sprints and iterations.

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Agile Planning Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 105

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Software Development (#ASD). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams. Parametric Project Monitoring and Control - Earned Value is an approach to Performance measurement for monitoring and controlling the progress of software development projects.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Margin is defined as the allowance in budget, projected schedule … to account for uncertainties and risks. Projects are over budget and behind schedule, to some extent because uncertainties are not accounted for in schedule estimates. The notion that Estimates lead to buffers. Irreducible Schedule Risk.

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Risk Estimate Manufacturing Risk Management 37

Velociteach

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Lora has also just become is an Adjunct Instructor of Project Management at the John Carroll University She has over 20 years of experience in healthcare, information technology, and manufacturing industries. And there’s very little buzz about Judith, when really she was a software developer herself. BILL YATES: Yeah.

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Risk Management PMO Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 87

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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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

JANUARY 19, 2018

Have sufficient Contingent Budget and Management Reserve to cover the cost variances from the naturally occurring cost behaviors, event-based impacts on cost, or cover things that go wrong with the Risk Cost coverage. You can't make decision in the presence of uncertainty without making estimates about those decisions.

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Performance Measurement Estimate Finance Manufacturing 31

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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Closing Controlling SCRUM Estimate 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 21, 2016

The notion of Control is missed used in software development projects. They have to be estimated in the start. Estimate what's right in front of you - the trail is rough, bumpy, rutted, off camber, muddy, thorny, and many times some animal runs across my path - rabbitt, prairie dog, a snake. Same for the budget.

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Controlling Technical Review Estimate 2013 42

Wrike

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It’s a method for accomplishing work where teams use principles from the Agile Manifesto made famous by pioneering software development teams back in 2001. It is super flexible and certainly works well outside of the software development world. Complete refit from wiring to heating to decoration.

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SCRUM CTO Hire 2001 Manufacturing 43

Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Can All This Formality Have Any Use in Modern Software Development? The notion that agile development is a free-for-all development of what ever the customer wants to produce next, with the customer identifying the next important thing to develop works just fine for de minimus projects. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Estimation of Long?Term Project Risk Management: Lessons Learned from Software Development Environment,” Y.

Risk Management 38

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

ActiveCollab

MAY 23, 2017

When you take traditional project management and apply it to software development, you get Waterfall. Waterfall was the first software development methodology, inherited from manufacturing and construction industry where you can’t afford to iterate (after you’ve built a tower or a bridge you can’t go back to “improve” the foundation).

Software Review 31

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Developers Software Development 31

ActiveCollab

MAY 23, 2017

When you take traditional project management and apply it to software development, you get Waterfall. Waterfall was the first software development methodology, inherited from manufacturing and construction industry where you can’t afford to iterate (after you’ve built a tower or a bridge you can’t go back to “improve” the foundation).

Software Review 28

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Developers Software Development 28

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. requires making estimates) ? Estimation of Long?Term

Risk Management 35

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

ActiveCollab

APRIL 23, 2017

When you take traditional project management and apply it to software development, you get Waterfall. Waterfall was the first software development methodology, inherited from manufacturing and construction industry where you can’t afford to iterate (after you’ve built a tower or a bridge you can’t go back to “improve” the foundation).

Software Review 28

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Developers Software Development 28

MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

High-level software design will all be done in the traditional waterfall then they will spin into an agile environment to do the software development part of it, then they’ll spin back out of Agile to go back and do something like user acceptance testing. Fletcher Hearns: Does the project meet schedule and budget?

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Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Governance 52

MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

And so this is where agile kind of fits in and isn’t just necessarily only for software development. And remember, agile is kind of born out of the need for technical project management or in many cases, software development. But it is clearly not limited to just software.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. You probably remember the case of the Volkswagen software engineer who was sentenced to prison for writing code that enabled vehicles to pass emissions tests fraudulently. It is not true.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Development Team Review 55