Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Most organizations build structures and processes designed to prevent project failure. However, Muratgali Karimsakov , a Project Engineer at Karachaganak Petroleum, warns that lessons learned must be applied in the right way: “Unfortunately, the lessons learned process in many companies doesn’t work properly.

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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. If they are not reducing, then the project is headed for trouble, the and management processes of the project has failed to performance its job. . For example for a recent paper abstract.

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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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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

We can get philosophical on this and conclude that “evidence is a social construction” and “there is no objective truth”. There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. So where do you find it?

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We have gone an extra mile to illustrate various real life use cases and examples where waterfall is implemented, and how one can use nTask to further simplify that process – so on and so forth. It follows a sequential, linear process which is why it is often described as a “linear-sequential life cycle model”. Background.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Why our brain is not built for software engineering. Attention is the process of selectively concentrating on one aspect while ignoring other aspects. It is a mental process and a limited mental resource (Ashcraft, 2002).

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PM Basics

JULY 1, 2020

Let me take a step back from the IT industry and illustrate it on construction projects. 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. The budget is somewhere 50 thousand dollars. Be Proactive!

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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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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

APRIL 4, 2019

Project Risk Management: Process, Techniques, and Insights , 2nd Edition, Chris Chapman and Stephen Ward, John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Managing Project Risk and Uncertainty: A Constructively Simple Approach to Decision Making , Chris Chapman and Stephen Ward, John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

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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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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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Leading Agile

JUNE 7, 2018

The core principle of engineering, found on signs in labs the world over, is: “Don’t do anything stupid on purpose.” ” This principle applies equally to software development. Now we’re going to do software development work. Step 7: Construct the Initial Playservice Application.

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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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