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. Department of Energy.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

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.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

The amount of money allocated to a specific project is referred to as the project budget. Performance Measurement Baseline. This creates a point of comparison of all the other baselines to evaluate project performance. Risk is any positive or negative event that can affect project execution. Optimistic Duration.

Underperforming Technical Team 111

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Risk Management Defining 111

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. Have sufficient Technical Performance Measures margin to cover the required performance measure of the Capabilities.

Performance Measurement 31

Performance Measurement Estimate Finance Manufacturing 31

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. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Uncertainty creates Risk. Measure of Effectiveness.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create risk to the success of the project. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Shipping on time, to specifications, and within budget might be meaningless if a competitor is shipping software that has a greater value to the market. Landmark’s measure of success over these three years had much more to do with customer satisfaction and market share than with meeting knowingly aggressive targets.

2007 42

2007 2012 2006 2008 42

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

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. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18.

Transportation 39

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Rarely the case in software development, where Little's Law is misused often. The OP claimed Goodhart's Law was the source of most of the problems with software development. Is this macroeconomic model a correct operational model for software development processes - measuring changes the target ?

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Estimate Software Developers Software Development 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

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. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18.

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 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. We need a formal risk management process.

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes. A second Critical Success Factor is the ability to predict what will happen in the future given the model of the project's activities and risks and the alternative designed as well as emerging designs and external processes. . This is the desired outcomes model.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

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.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In the project domain, an estimate is a calculated approximation of some desired measurement. This is usually a cost, a completion date, a performance measure used in a closed loop control system to keep the project GREEN while delivering the needed Capabilities to produce the Value for the customer at the needed time for the needed cost.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. These are all focused on developing software, delivering that software to those paying the developers. Anything less results in systems not worth having or fail to function or perform. [3],

Software Developers 39

Software Developers Software Development Agile Software 39

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Risk Management (#RM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk.

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Accept: A response to a project risk where the project manager accepts the risk and takes no action to evade it, i.e. 'accepting' the risk. This is usually in case of risks that are unlikely to occur or minor enough so as to not affect the project's outcome. Budget : The sum total of all the money allocated for a project.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. What is a Team?

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Organizations that use a methodology: 38% meet budget. VS. Organizations that don’t use a methodology: 31% meet budget. More than 90% of organizations perform some type of project postmortem or closeout retrospective. [9]. 64% of organizations say they frequently conduct risk management. [6]. 28% stay on schedule.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager 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 cyber security. Where’s the talk about risk?

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59