Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Create a Solid Project Plan and Clear Business Case. Creating a clear business case and a critical path that designs your plans can help you plan well. Being attentive to the needs of your sponsor from the very beginning of your project also enhances the effectiveness of planning: “What is the main cause for project failure?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2016

Elliott could provide answers to these questions to our clients, when he suggests that estimates are worthless. . How many more working demos will be coming before we can go live with the software I'm paying you to build? And do this according the plan described in the Product Roadmap, using the Cadence or Capability Release Plan?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 9, 2017

DeMacro made this post, which has been picked up by the agile community to mean estimating is a waste. . Implicit in the quote (and indeed in the book’s title) is that control is an important aspect, maybe the most important, of any software project. For example in "Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?"

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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.

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Technical Review Estimate Software Review Software Engineering 28

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). The Cone IS the Planned reduction of uncertainty as the project proceeds.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 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). The Cone IS the Planned reduction of uncertainty as the project proceeds.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. All project work operates in the presence of uncertainty.

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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

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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

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Workzone

JANUARY 18, 2023

You can re-arrange the pieces to make them fit to your whims, or project plans that is. It’s specifically built for technicl creatives—such as game developers, UX designers and software engineers. It includes an advanced user experience with innovative time tracking to plan, log and get an overview of hours.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

requires making estimates) ? 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. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2004 35

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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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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). Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. But is can be ANY variance for the program, including confidence in the estimates of future performance - cost, schedule, or technical performance. This usually results in a project's actual costs far outrunning the optimistic estimates and creating a large overrun.

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Performance Measurement 2017 Technical Review 2008 35

Teamweek

JULY 12, 2024

ML plays a critical cybersecurity role by identifying potential threats and exploits (weak spots in company software). Engineers can plug those gaps to keep data safe. Adaptive control systems used in passenger aircraft or advanced vehicles use CL to assess external conditions and factors like weight or fuel. Anomaly detection.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Please send those over at any time using the chat question box on the “go to webinar” control panel where we do plan to answer those questions for you throughout the session today. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. Is it Fletcher?

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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Walter Stinnett’s session, Monitoring and Controlling Requirements, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. This presentation, we’ll be discussing, monitoring and controlling requirements. Which of the following is not a change control tool or technique?

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

Phases in Software Development. Here are some common phases of the software development: Project Initiation. Each organization develops a software development life cycle that suits its needs. Monitoring and Controlling. But quite often you will notice that even plan-driven life cycle will have iterations and increments.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 67

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Why our brain is not built for software engineering. Knowledge work’ refers to tasks that take place mostly in our minds, like predicting scope, setting up plannings, considering consequences of changes to complex systems, working out test cases and estimating complexity. This will affect all estimates and predictions.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 13, 2022

However, the Developers are always accountable for: Creating a plan for the Sprint, the Sprint Backlog; Instilling quality by adhering to a Definition of Done; Adapting their plan each day toward the Sprint Goal; and, Holding each other accountable as professionals. Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns of the Developers.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 18, 2023

Targets are fine, but when you decide to build that new killer feature just uncovered in conversations with real customers, the plan you previously had in place needs to flex. This might come from Management, Product, Engineering, or elsewhere. No change in engineering practices. Lack of buy-in.

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Agile Fractional VPE Software Review 2001 148

Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2020

Development Teams are hence essential to Scrum’s built-in checks & balances as the Development Team has the sole control over the Sprint Backlog and is watching over the Definition of Done. Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Don’t become too granular.

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PM Basics

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Projeudget Template includes planned expenses for all project activities, including wages, materials, fees, risk reserves, etc. I need accurate estimates. You’ll put a lot of efforts in planning the project. So… You do want to ensure that you’ll plan for the work that clients want. Click To Tweet.

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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. We do plan to answer your questions throughout the session today. It was more work was done than was originally planned and it wasn’t a formal change request.

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Here are some important things that software project management enables managers to do for their projects. Tracking, monitoring, and controlling the elements associated with the project progress or the overall project process. Frontend Software Developer. Estimation. Estimation. Business Analyst. Scheduling.

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2021 Software Review Software Software Developers 157

Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. The sampling rate to maintain control must be matched with the processes change rate. Principle #3 - Believe the Data, Not The Estimates . Estimates are data.

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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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Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

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. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The conjecture that we can make decisions in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impacts of those decisions is without any principles that can be tested beyond personal anecdotes of I know people who spend other peoples money without providing estimates. Not a group that likes to get questions, by the way.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

As the name suggests, Waterfall focuses on planning the lifecycle of the project by dividing the project into distinctive, separate and exclusive parts: In a Waterfall model, each phase must be completed before the next phase can begin. . In his presentation he described the use of such phases in software engineering.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow, through some unstated process of correction or prevention, fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. The sampling rate to maintain control must be matched with the processes change rate. Estimates are data.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Estimate Development Team Review 28

Proofhub

MAY 12, 2020

Right from day one, ProofHub is determined to provide a cloud-based, all-in-one, project management software system that can be used to simplify project planning & collaboration for team managers and employees. MD Mohsin Ansari, Computer Software Engineer “It is a feature-rich software with a multilingual interface.

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2020 Software Review Software Engineering Estimate 78

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

The infrastructure removal program meant installing a complete wireless umbrella across several 100 square miles of property with full encrypted security while maintaining voice, data, first responder, physical, and cyber control. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Almost impossible?

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

The infrastructure removal program meant installing a complete wireless umbrella across several 100 square miles of property with full encrypted security while maintaining voice, data, first responder, physical, and cyber control. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Is this normal?

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The first way to look at project management software is based on what you’ll use it for. Some common use cases include: Project planning Resource management Portfolio management Process management. Let’s look at these types of project management software in detail. Project and resource planning software.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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