The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate. Project Governance The framework and guidelines for decision-making, responsibility, and accountability within a project.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Third, how are we reproducing working tests in software? Additionally, we need to consider how we organize teams in the presence of dependencies, how we orchestrate and govern those dependencies, and what we measure and control around the team. How are we orchestrating and governing those dependencies?

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For any closed loop control system ‒ let’s assume we want to manage our project with such a system ‒ has a signal representing the current state of the system. For a software project, let’s start by answering a critical question – how long are you willing to wait before you find out you’re late ? https://goo.gl/DP6Jw https://goo.gl/DP6Jw

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. Process control, emergency shutdown, flight avionics, and other embedded real-time systems, including transaction processing business systems. Software-intensive systems include: . Matlab is one example.

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

These include : Definition Planning Execution Control Closure Defining the Project In this stage, the role of a project manager is to define what the project is and what the users hope to achieve by undertaking the project. government began using it to manage complex defense projects. Now the work of the project begins.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, the digital transformation market was estimated at a whopping $731.1 Monitoring and controlling 5. IT projects still require planning, control, teamwork, and leadership — and for that, organizations use IT project management frameworks to maximize their success. billion in 2022 — with no signs of slowing down.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Estimate a project timeframe: Create time estimates for each task. and add that to your cost estimate. You should let the client know that your estimates are, in fact, just estimates and not a fixed cost. Review task estimates and actuals regularly and communicate any significant deviations to the client.

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Planio

APRIL 22, 2024

According to some estimates , PMs spend 90% of their time communicating with team members, sponsors, and stakeholders. The budget and scope remain on track, but there are risks to the project’s software development resources following a resignation. Project managers are born communicators. 60,000) from 1st January.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Open Loop / Closed Loop Project Controls. Parametric Project Monitoring and Control. Five Principles of Project Success , PMI, Northern Utah Chapter, Professional Development Day, 2012. Planning and Scheduling.

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Planview

JUNE 28, 2019

Adopting Lean-Agile budgeting practices helps to decrease funding overhead and friction while maintaining financial governance, helping to align budgeting practices with Lean-Agile goals. IT provides cost and time estimates and executives prioritize funding based on perceived value delivery in 12-18 months or longer.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

This took me back since Scrum is derived from an empirical closed loop control system developed in the USAF by Col. This is a good starting point for not only Scrum and other agile methods, that can be used to test the validity of any method suggested to replace or augment the current agile software development processes.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 11, 2018

Correct, but this quote is missing the other ½ of the core idea of all Closed Loop Control systems. This is the basis of all Closed Loop Control systems, from the speed control of the car, to the flight controls for an aircraft, to the temperature controls for your home, and of course the business controls for software development.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This is a good starting point for answering the mail on the notion that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impact of those decisions. Estimates are for the business, why would the business no longer want an estimate of cost, schedule, or technical performance of the provided capabilities?

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? As more details get developed, the Cone converges to the actual value. Steve McConnell.

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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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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

By: Dr. Michael Shick, MSPM, PMP, CSM Are you a project manager or team member tired of projects that get out of control, consume resources, and seem to go far beyond their original scope? Prepare a Business Case : Outline the reasons for undertaking the project, including the estimated costs, timelines, benefits, and risks involved.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Deciding how much precision and accuracy is needed for a credible estimate is critical to the success of that decision.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

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MPUG

APRIL 15, 2022

We invite you to join in with questions and comments by using the chat feature in the GoToWebinar control panel. You can pull it out from the control panel and expand it so it’s easier to type in there. Today, we are doing the overview of the PMBOK Guide 7th Edition with Jeff Bongiovani. I have it up on the screen here.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

Kyle: If you have any questions during today’s presentation, please send those over at any time using the chat question box on the go to webinar control panel. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. By education and training.

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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.

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

For an on-premise solution, you get full control over your data and how you want to manage it, but it’s not mobile. If you want to see more ERP providers with a list of software with end-user feedback h e re. You can also take a look at Enlyft’s list of ERPs and their estimated market shares here.

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

For an on-premise solution, you get full control over your data and how you want to manage it, but it’s not mobile. If you want to see more ERP providers with a list of software with end-user feedback h e re. You can also take a look at Enlyft’s list of ERPs and their estimated market shares here. .

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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. Closed Loop Stochastic Adaptive control in the presence of Evolving Uncertainty. This extended post covers.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute. Estimates of cost, schedule, technical performance on the left have a lower probability of being precise and accurate than estimates on the right. Economics of Software Development.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

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). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty. This is due to many reasons.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

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). the beginning of a project, comparatively little is known about the product or work results, and so estimates are subject to large uncertainty.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

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). the beginning of a project, comparatively little is known about the product or work results, and so estimates are subject to large uncertainty.

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Planio

JUNE 19, 2023

In fact, studies have shown that around 27% of projects fail because of inaccurate task estimates, with another 11% failing due to undefined task dependencies. navy in the 1950s, the Program Evaluation Review Technique (or PERT) helps project managers worldwide estimate, plan, and visualize their projects in a way that allows them to succeed.

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ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

Scrum is the most popular agile project management framework that’s used in software development organizations. Scrum can also be used in schools, agencies, government, and other types of organizations. Then, you create a task for each user story, put it in a backlog, and estimate each task (together with the team).

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Agilemania

AUGUST 19, 2021

It is an iterative and incremental structure for project management mainly used in agile software development. The scrum methodology indicates functional software, the versatility to change accompanying emerging communication, collaboration, and business realities. Servant-Leader — The Scrum Master is a servant-leader.

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Agilemania

AUGUST 19, 2021

It is an iterative and incremental structure for project management mainly used in agile software development. The scrum methodology indicates functional software, the versatility to change accompanying emerging communication, collaboration, and business realities. Servant-Leader — The Scrum Master is a servant-leader.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. The MOE's belong to the End User - this is the what part of the development project. When we look at the Root Cause of the failure of non-trivial software projects, we see several sources.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute (in this post, cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM). Economics of Software Development.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Estimation of Long?Term Project Risk Management: Lessons Learned from Software Development Environment,” Y.

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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. requires making estimates) ? Estimation of Long?Term

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MPUG

MARCH 18, 2021

If you have any questions during today’s presentation, please send those over at any time using the chat question box on the go to webinar control panel. The concept though, that drives the Lean Six Sigma concept, the define, the measure, the analyze, improve, control. Or whoever’s governing this.

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