Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. 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.

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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. Avaramidlis and J. Chakraborty and K.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). 8, August 1995.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. De Meyer, C.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

So in the end, if we are to make a decision in the presence of uncertainty, we MUST make estimates to develop a reliable shipping date while producing an accurate and precise estimate of the cost, schedule, and technical performance of the product shipped on that date. Eggstaff, Thomas A.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. Why Do Information Technology Projects Fail?” Whitney and Charles B.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

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Paymo App

JULY 16, 2018

How to plan a project from start to finish using project planning software. Best project planning software options. Due to the variety of decisions made during this planning stage, it’s critical that you don’t skip this part. Reviewing the final plan and getting stakeholders’ approval. What is Project Planning?

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

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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). This is due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

This knowledge starts with Reference Class Forecasting which is a method of predicting the future (cost, schedule, technical performance) by looking at similar past situations and their outcomes. For technical design, there are existing designs, patterns, packages, architecture references, and similar resources. Hire someone who does.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

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. In our software-intensive system of systems domain, we develop proposals with 80% confidence of completing on time and on budget at the time of submission.

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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 due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2019

These websites and software services will only be “done” development when the company stops being competitive, offering new services or keeping up with technology evolution. At one time getting to "Done" on your software project was a relief, a goal, a milestone, now it is more of a tombstone.   Summary.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Larry has over 15 years of enterprise account management and cloud solution sales with premiere Microsoft high tech partners and clients.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 27, 2018

The impression was reinforced strongly when I attempted to bridge the divide by participating in the academic tracks of agile and technical conferences in the 2007-2008 time frame. I wanted to see how we could tie the academic and practical worlds together in a useful way. They said, well, no one has published it before.

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