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What Is IT Management? Why Is IT Important for Businesses?

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 2, 2023

Information technology (IT) is what keeps the modern world running, which is why IT management is so crucial to business. For too many, IT is a mystery and IT management isn’t even in their vocabulary. We’ll explain these two terms, explore the various aspects of IT management and why it’s so important to businesses.

Infrastructure

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Risk Management Resources

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.

Risk Management

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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.

Risk Management

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Do you know your organization’s project management maturity level? If not, it’s high time to change the situation: project management maturity has a direct impact on a company’s competitiveness and business success. . What is project management maturity exactly, and how to define its level?

Underperforming Technical Team

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9 Best Practices for Recruiting Developers With Skills Tests

Teamweek

AUGUST 7, 2023

What’s the problem with recruiting software developers? The demand for software developers far outweighs the available supply, making it a real challenge to find the right candidates. To make matters worse, top-notch software engineers know their worth and often expect handsome salaries.

Technical Review

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

We are a project management consulting company in the Baltimore Washington area. Background myself, I’ve been doing project program, PMO management for going on, I guess, 30 years now. By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. And in project management terminology, we must set the baseline.

Performance Measurement

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21 Types Of Project Management Software (With Examples)

Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Whether you’re a small team of freelancers or a large agency, your company needs a project management tool that fits your processes like a glove. Before choosing a specific tool though, you need to decide on the type of project management software you need. Types of project management software based on the use case.

Software Review

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How to Ensure Your Cloud Migration Effort is Aligned with the Rest of Your Business

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You start selling software licenses, you disrupt the whole way of selling. The whole value chain beyond just the engineering piece gets disrupted. It might be telling the client, how do you de-risk all that? You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze.

Technical Review

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How to Ensure Your Cloud Migration Effort is Aligned with the Rest of Your Business

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You start selling software licenses, you disrupt the whole way of selling. The whole value chain beyond just the engineering piece gets disrupted. It might be telling the client, how do you de-risk all that? You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze.

Technical Review

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

The reason for this resource page is the lack of understanding of how to estimate, the urban myths about software estimating, and the fallacies that estimating is not needed, when developing software, in the presence of uncertainty, when spending other peoples money. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.

Estimate

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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. Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. These principles originate in: .

Transportation

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011

Skills Mismatch | What Is It & How to Bridge the Gap

Teamweek

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For example, hiring managers admit that they hire the wrong person in 74% of cases. they have the skills needed to succeed in a tech-focused manager-level position and their employer isn’t using those skills effectively). If you fail to mention those soft skills in the job listing, you risk attracting a poor hire.

Technical Review

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Economics of Software Development

Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

Because of the limitations of resources, projects need to operate withing a world of limited resources, the uncertainties - both reducible and irreducible - that create risk, and the emerging attributes of all project work. Managing in the presence of uncertainty requires a Closed Loop Control process. No Adult Management.

Software Developers

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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. Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. These principles originate in: .

Transportation

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011

Misquotes of Deming

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth. This community of program controls, cost analyst, earned value managers and program managers is accountable for providing information to decision makers on enterprise and complex projects and programs. Who's Budget is it Anyway?

Software Engineering

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

Or plan on being late, over budget, and reduced probability of technical success, before you start. This is called Software Engineering Economics. IT Risk Management. All Value is Cost and Time dependent. Related articles. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain.

Cadence

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Cone of Uncertainty

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. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create risk to the success of the project. The Programmatic Management of the project.

Technical Review

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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. Complexity Primer (Sandia).

Estimate

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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.

Estimate

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. Fletcher Hearns: Great, thank you Kyle.

Performance Measurement

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Two Parallel Processes of Project Success - Both Value and Delivery are Needed

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

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

This is a recurring theme of #NoEstimates it's a waste to me the developer, I'd rather be coding , I'm not good at estimating , I see no value in my making estimating when you're just going to use them against me when I'm late and over budget. This is standard Product Management.

Estimate

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Here's an extract from "Chapter 8: Human Behavior and Complexity," Terry Cooke-Davies, in Aspects of Complexity: Managing Projects in a Complex World. This is a cautionary tale for those listening to the #NoEstimates advocates, where anecdotes of bad management are used in an attempt to replace established principles of business management.

Underperforming Technical Team

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Deux

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). A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

Technical Review

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

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 notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Trois

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 notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

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). This is done by active risk management, through probabalistic decision-making.

Technical Review

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A Wrap Up of the #NoEstimating Conjecture Analysis to Date

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

It has many good concepts, one serious math error, and connects well with how we manage and work billion dollar programs. If you're looking for motivation for estimates outside of the domain where the customer doesn't really care about the final cost, just the final product developed inside a "level of effort" budget, look here and remember.

Estimate

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Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Management of this reduction work and measurement of the progress is a Close Loop Control System paradigm. The creation and management of the Plan is usually performed by the Program Planning and Controls group where I work. .

Technical Review

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Project Requirements Management – Part 3: Monitoring and Controlling Requirements Transcription

MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

Welcome to the final part of my three-part series on project requirements management. What is the requirements management baseline? And I think the reason being is that along the way, in this requirements management process, there was not an appropriate traceability and monitoring process set up.

Monitoring

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What’s Worse Than Not Automating Your Software Delivery Pipeline?

Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves. Building software. Circa 2018 this might seem rather obvious, but one aspect of automating a software delivery pipeline is to automate the build process for the application. Creating or modifying database schemas.

Software Review

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What Is IT Management? Why Is IT Important for Businesses?

Risk Management Resources

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

9 Best Practices for Recruiting Developers With Skills Tests

Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

21 Types Of Project Management Software (With Examples)

How to Ensure Your Cloud Migration Effort is Aligned with the Rest of Your Business

How to Ensure Your Cloud Migration Effort is Aligned with the Rest of Your Business

Software Estimating Resources

Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Skills Mismatch | What Is It & How to Bridge the Gap

Economics of Software Development

Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Misquotes of Deming

Quote of the Day

Cone of Uncertainty

DDSTOP The Saga Continues

DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

Two Parallel Processes of Project Success - Both Value and Delivery are Needed

4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Deux

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Trois

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

A Wrap Up of the #NoEstimating Conjecture Analysis to Date

Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

Project Requirements Management – Part 3: Monitoring and Controlling Requirements Transcription

What’s Worse Than Not Automating Your Software Delivery Pipeline?

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