Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis. Showing up late and over budget does not produce the needed Value.

Process 45

Process Estimate Software Developers Software Development 45

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. Managing Requirements for Business Value," John Favaro, IEEE Software , March/April 2002. And attached the hashtag #RealOption.

2008 32

2008 2002 Estimate Software Engineering 32

Workzone

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s specifically built for technicl creatives—such as game developers, UX designers and software engineers. Zenkit also gives you member-level, swimlanes for your Kanban board and time estimates for tasks or Sprints. They also have API integration, budget estimates, time tracking and other must-have features.

2023 52

2023 Software Review Lean Estimate 52

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. Software-intensive systems include: . Our daily lives depend on complex software-intensive systems, from banking to communications to transportation to medicine.

Software Developers 39

Software Developers Software Development Engineering Software 39

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?

Transportation 39

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Estimate Software Engineering 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. All project work operates in the presence of uncertainty.

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

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?

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

PM Basics

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Do you want to see a project budget example? Project Budget is a tool that calculates the total funds authorized to execute the project. Project Budget is created based on Activities List. Project Budget is created based on Activities List. A Mindset That Helps Creating an Accurate Project Budget. A real one.

Budget 82

Budget Software Review Estimate Risk Management 82

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

Risk Management 38

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

requires making estimates) ? Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

Risk Management 35

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Wrike

JUNE 3, 2015

Workers have to be paid for more time, so your estimated budget goes over. Now, when I create projects I estimate 3-5 situations that could delay the project and how to deal with those situations and allot time for whichever would take the longest time to recover. ” —Trevor Ewen, Senior Software Engineer, Neosavvy.

Technical Review 59

Technical Review Software Review Software Engineering Risk Management 59

MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

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. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. More than $500,000 under budget?

Performance Measurement 59

Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Engineering 59

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

This is used in support of the fallacy that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of uncertanty. Who's Budget is it Anyway? Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Software Engineering is a Verb. The #NoEstimates advocates love to use a Deming quote.

Software Engineering 28

Software Engineering Performance Measurement Finance Manufacturing 28

Paymo App

JANUARY 25, 2018

By precisely measuring employee time records, project managers will be able to make better time estimates for future projects. Consider what your budget is and if getting a time tracker will improve your work and bring you more profit to cover its costs. This can speed up your work in the early stages of the time tracker’s use.

Technical Review 86

Technical Review Software Review Monitoring Software Engineering 86

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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 BLUE bars are the probabilistic ranges of the current estimate date.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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 BLUE bars are the probabilistic ranges of the current estimate date.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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. Estimating Probabilistic Outcomes?

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

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. This fallacy comes from a collection of data that did not follow the needed and planned reduction of uncertainty for the cost estimates of a set of software development projects. .

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2023

Additionally, if you're intrigued by the application of VSM in software engineering, check out the article " The value of value stream mapping in software engineering ". The Product Owner's team was entrenched in traditional project metrics, prioritizing delivery within fixed timeframes, set scopes, and allocated budgets.

SCRUM 167

SCRUM Software Review Technical Review Software Engineering 167

PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

In this case, project planning boils down to identifying project scope, estimates of time and costs, and setting milestones. In the end, you need requirements that software engineers will understand. Such approach doesn’t exempt you from delivering the project on-time and within budget. Questionaries and Surveys.

Software Developers 67

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 67

Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It requires you to properly scope projects , break them down into tasks , estimate time and effort , and know which teammates are best suited and available for each one. Every project is limited by the triple constraints of time, budget, and scope. Instead, effective workload management is an art and a science.

Underperforming Technical Team 97

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Estimate Software Engineering 97

nTask

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Ensuring that all of the efforts of the development team regarding the software development process stay within the budget that was agreed on at the beginning. It also helps you to create a clear blueprint of the software that you are trying to create using the software project development process. Estimation.

2021 157

2021 Software Review Software Software Developers 157

Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. The supposed evidence in the presentation, that estimating "does not work" starts with the Chaos Report. This is called Doing Stupid Things on Purpose (DSTOP).

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Estimate Software Developers 40

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

Estimate 40

Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

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. Fletcher Hearns: Does the project meet schedule and budget? By education and training.

Performance Measurement 52

Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Governance 52

Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow, through some unstated process of correction or prevention, fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. TO DO in Rally, Remaining Estimate in Jira, and other fields in Team Foundation Server and VersionOne. Not likely.

Underperforming Technical Team 28

Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Estimate Development Team Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The conjecture that we can make decisions in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impacts of those decisions is without any principles that can be tested beyond personal anecdotes of I know people who spend other peoples money without providing estimates. We need to learn how to predict with credible methods.

Estimate 39

Estimate Risk Management Finance Software Developers 39

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

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. So here are some books, handbooks, and guides that sit on my shelf that are used pretty much all the time on the Software Intensive System of Systems we work on. No References?

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

In all engineering worlds, from software engineering to bending metal for money, there is really nothing new under the sun. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments. maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help. Almost impossible?

Estimate 37

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

Teamweek

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The global economic consequences of this mismatch were estimated to be ~$8 trillion in unrealized GDP for the world economy in 2018. For instance, an individual having a software engineering degree might not be a great fit for a customer service role. Skills mismatches cost organizations billions of dollars worldwide.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Artificial Inteligence 52

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. A #Noestimates advocate makes the claim that having a ±10% accuracy for estimates of cost and duration is a dangerous thing. Define the probabilistic ranges of the work in a single point estimate manner. There are databases for Function Points .

Estimate 42

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Project tracking software helps you: Understand if you’re on track to meet task, milestone, and project deadlines Time tracking Compare estimated vs. actual efforts and costs Adjust plans quickly if you’re not on schedule or within the budget. And almost all such tools are built for software project teams.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Technical Review Construction 52

Paymo App

JULY 16, 2018

Deciding upon a project budget. For some project planning tools, set other details such as workflow, billing method, hours estimate, and more. For instance, if you don’t have a technical background, reach out to your software engineers. Estimate costs. But cost estimates are not used just at an internal level.

Software Review 52

Software Review Planning Software Technical Review 52

MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

The backlog is the list of prioritized and estimated user stories. And then determine if the proposed change can be accommodated within the fiscal and technical resources of the budget? Performing requirements traceability analysis is an important part of software engineering. Can you afford it?

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Controlling Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52