Herding Cats

APRIL 13, 2018

Real Options can be used to address the gap found in traditional capital budgeting methods. This is the same paradigm of Agile software development where responding to change over following the plan is part of the original manifesto. Managing Requirements for Business Value," John Favaro, IEEE Software , March/April 2002.

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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. The domain for the Cone can certainly be product development, but it's origins are for Programs, where a budget, period of performance, and needed capabilities are On Contract.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

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. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

Risk Management 38

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

Risk Management 35

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

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. Root Cause: Productivity is the efficacy of the investment of time, talent, and money.

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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Showing up late, over budget, and with missing Capabilities is not what the customer paid for. This is the domain of Microeconomics and when applied to software development it is the microeconomics of software development. 2] IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , SXE-10, Janurary, 1981, pp.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

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.

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Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Governance 52

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. It’s often considered good practice to involve security specialists early in each project, rather than waiting until most of the time and budget have been used up before they have a chance to perform a review.

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