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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Agilemania

AUGUST 1, 2022

It is earned by an individual who has demonstrated mastery of the entire software development lifecycle. These individuals have a deep knowledge of how to implement and manage a software development project within the context of their organization. There are various reasons to become SAFe® Program Consultants (SPC).

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

Cognitive bias - a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive processes, often occurring as a result of holding onto one's preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information. Because of that, we don't separate the thinking processes into a dual-system. A process based on tangible evidentiary materials.

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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. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. During this education process, we all have encountered texts that have laid out the principles and processes needed to do our job and deliver the needed capabilities for the needed cost on the needed date to accomplish the needed mission.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. 37-48, 2007.

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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.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

Cognitive bias - a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive processes, often occurring as a result of holding onto one's preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information. Because of that, we don't separate the thinking processes into a dual-system. A process based on tangible evidentiary materials.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Wrike was launched in 2006 by founder and software developer Andrew Filev. His goal was to create a flexible project management platform that is smart, secure, and versatile enough to enable modern teams to configure it to suit their processes and ways of working. . What is Wrike? What is Asana? Time tracking.

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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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Workzone

JANUARY 18, 2023

Favro Gamers or rather game developers, you may want to check out Favro. It’s specifically built for technicl creatives—such as game developers, UX designers and software engineers. Their Kanban board stretches horizontally across to help you visualize what’s next in the product development cycle.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. When you hear I have data that shows the uncertainty doesn't reduce , then that project is out of control and will be late, over budget, and likely not perform to the needed effectiveness and performance parameters. The processes is an engineering discipline.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Mine is in hard science and systems engineering. Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. Softwarte projects are often late and over budget leading to major problems for customers. There is a serious issue in estimating realistic software project budgets and schedules. Related articles.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2023

VSM acts as a catalyst for continuous refinement, offering insights into existing processes. In the realm of software development, principles of DevOps and a commitment to technical excellence can further enhance the process. It enables teams to grasp the entire process, spotlighting bottlenecks and inefficiencies.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 2, 2023

They include computer programmers, web developers, support specialists, IT technicians, network engineers, database administrators, software engineers, computer scientists, data scientists and IT security specialists. This includes digital services, networking, servers, fixing hardware and software issues, etc.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population or generated from a model of the process being estimated.

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Wrike

MARCH 4, 2015

You’ll learn about Work Breakdown Structures, defining a project schedule and budget, controlling deliverables, managing issues and risks, leadership and communication skills, working with stakeholders, and more. His solution is unconventional: with a huge staff of software developers at his disposal, he splits them into eighteen teams.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

The uncertainty is always there, it doesn't go away with specific actions in specific domains, or with the use of any tools, processes, or practices. Are we being effective with our budget - that is are we earning our budget. We need a formal risk management process.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. With this paradigm we have logically connected project management processes with Control System processesIf the variances, created by uncertainty going outside the UCL and LCL. The processes is an engineering discipline. Economics of Software Development.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Measure that is modeled in the Cone the variable is the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measure. The processes is an engineering discipline. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Measure that is modeled in the Cone the variable is the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measure. The processes is an engineering discipline. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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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. Shrinking The Cone Of Uncertainty With Continuous Assessment For Software Team Dynamics In Design And Development,” Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn,” Ph.D.

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

When we talk about software project management in a conversation related to the organizational paradigm, it usually comprises of all of the things from software development, documenting the whole process, testing every single element, and delivering the finished product on time. Agile Software Project Management.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process. This is simply good process development and management. What is the Root Cause of the process not being trusted? Or are you taking observations and deciding that the process is broken without finding the actual cause of the undesirable outcomes?

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PM Basics

JULY 1, 2020

The budget is somewhere 50 thousand dollars. You’ll need to Select and Establish Processes. When you know the benefits of project management, it’s easier to invest time in learning the basics processes, tools, and approaches. Moreover, you need to be able to visualize the processes and problems at each stage.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process. This is simply good process development and business management. What is the Root Cause of the process not being trusted? The notion of waterfall development on slide 9 as actually prohibited in our domain. Have you done a Root Cause Analysis?

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PM Basics

MAY 16, 2022

You don’t work in one of the main niches: Software Development. Agile Frameworks are popular in the software development industry. Here’s a shortlist of major cities with a high level of software development job opportunities. To become a software project manager you need relevant experience.

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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. Project Risk Management: Process, Techniques, and Insights , 2nd Edition, Chris Chapman and Stephen Ward, John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Only margin can be used to handle this risk.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

This Does Not Scale - If there are software development projects that can be executed without knowing how much it will cost in the end (an open ended spend plan), or projects where the budget is capped (a Not To Exceed Number) and we don't really need to know the upper bound of the features to be delivered, how large can this notion scale?

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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. Let’s look at these types of project management software in detail.

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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. In all engineering worlds, from software engineering to bending metal for money, there is really nothing new under the sun. For software development starts with.

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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. With what appears to be NO understanding of how to estimate, this author ignores the processes used in developing products or services in the presence of uncertainty.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 7, 2023

Recruiting developers in today’s job market can be as easy as knitting a sweater with spaghetti. ? With software development being the world’s most in-demand profession in 2023, tech companies and every technical recruiter on planet Earth are vying for their attention. What does a developer do?

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 20, 2022

You probably already know—Agile isn’t just for software developers anymore. After all, Agile projects deliver proven value in software projects: Higher profit More meaningful projects and client relationships Greater productivity Clearer communication. Processes and tools ? “We’re an Agile agency ??.”. Buzzword alert.

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Wrike

MARCH 14, 2023

Let’s take a quick look at the advantages of using Jira: Because it’s part of a bigger group, it offers integrations with a range of products, including over 3,000 Jira Software apps that can be tailored for your use case. Due to its origins in software engineering, Jira is great for issue management.

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