Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Read more: Examples of Lessons Learned in Construction Projects. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Great Planning Disasters by Peter Hall (University of California Press, 1982), recommended by Sean Doull-Connolly , a Senior Process Engineer at TIAA. Perform Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Software development project schedule estimation has long been a difficult problem. BTW the term was NOT popularized by McConnell, the term goes all the way back to 1958 on the chemical plant construction industry. Bauman, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry , April 1958. For example for a recent paper abstract.

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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. Metrics can be set with the project type, construction versus software development.

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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

Its simplicity and ease of implementation has made it the most popular version of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) for software engineering and IT projects. The origin of the Waterfall Model is often attributed to the manufacturing and construction industries. Background. Popularity of the Waterfall Model.

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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. Nevertheless, the motto of software development is often ‘first solve the problem, then write the code’. Their article inspired me to apply the same insights to Scrum and to extend it with my own.

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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. When you are aiming for the IT sector you must know SDLC: Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management. You don’t work in one of the main industries: Software Development. The budget is somewhere 50 thousand dollars.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

Managing Project Risk and Uncertainty: A Constructively Simple Approach to Decision Making , Chris Chapman and Stephen Ward, John Wiley & Sons, 2002. Software Engineering Risk Management: Finding your Path Through the Jungle, Version 1.0 , Dale Karolak, IEEE Computer Society, 1998.

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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. Technical Skills of a Software Project Manager. “I Where Should I Start?

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Construction scheduling and management software. A construction project management software facilitates planning, managing, and tracking construction activities with features, such as: Document management and gathering Bid and budget management Accounting, invoicing, and payroll integration Workflow automation Resources management.

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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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Software Review Technical Review 2018 Software Developers 84

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. And money in the bank is what software development is about. Traditional software development processes are like watchmaking.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.

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