Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. An empirical proof of effectiveness is, of course, a test suite. But there are software systems where testing is necessary but not sufficient. .

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. A final Thought . Kirchler, D.

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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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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

As a graduate student (twice in two different fields) we always started the first semester with a design of experiments course. In this course, we learned about statistics beyond the physics and engineering (systems engineering) needs and how to sort out bad data from good data. You're bad at estimating - WHY?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. A final Thought . Kirchler, D.

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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." This, of course, is a fallacy on all levels. The first thing to do is NOT fall for the fallacy that NOT Estimating will fix the behavior of the bad manager. Let's look at what an estimate is.

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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. . Implying there is no need to measure the project performance and by implication no need to estimate. This, of course, ignores the need to know how much of that $50M minus the $1M am I willing to loose? Related articles.

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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). A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

Technical Review 28

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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). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

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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). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons. So the question is? -

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.

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Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Workzone

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s specifically built for technicl creatives—such as game developers, UX designers and software engineers. Geared towards engineers, Planio has issue tracking, version control, help desk capabilities, wikis and chat capabilities. ProductPlan Feeling stuck when charting a course? Pricing: $6.80-$12.75/month

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Of late, Cone of Uncertainty has become the mantra of No Estimates advocates claiming that data is needed BEFORE the Cone is of any use. This is course is NOT the correct use of the Cone. All risk comes from uncertainty.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Kyle: And welcome to Part 2 of MPUG’s Project Performance Measurement course. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. I know I’m going to have a senior software engineer and I want him working on these tasks [inaudible 00:12:15] who that is.

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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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Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2021

But uneven workload management leads to burnout, resentment, and all sorts of other risks that can impact your project’s success and the health of your team. It requires you to properly scope projects , break them down into tasks , estimate time and effort , and know which teammates are best suited and available for each one.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 13, 2022

The term “Developer” seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Watering this quality level down to meet a—properly arbitrary—deadline imposed on the team puts the team’s success at risk as it introduces undone work and technical debt. However, it has proven to be a useful practice.).

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

Kyle: Hello, and welcome to part one of MPUGs Project Performance Measurement course. 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.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The global economic consequences of this mismatch were estimated to be ~$8 trillion in unrealized GDP for the world economy in 2018. For instance, an individual having a software engineering degree might not be a great fit for a customer service role. Skills mismatches cost organizations billions of dollars worldwide.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. Estimates are data.

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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. 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. We need to learn how to predict with credible methods.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy, since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. TO DO in Rally, Remaining Estimate in Jira, and other fields in Team Foundation Server and VersionOne. Estimates are data.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

If you're not an expert, you're not going to recognize the possible solutions, risks, impediments, and opportunities for the problems you'll encounter in developing a solution that has never been developed before. In all engineering worlds, from software engineering to bending metal for money, there is really nothing new under the sun.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. A #Noestimates advocate makes the claim that having a ±10% accuracy for estimates of cost and duration is a dangerous thing. Define the probabilistic ranges of the work in a single point estimate manner. What is the Value at Risk for your Project?

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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

Of course, there are other aspects to this requirements planning that we talked about in the first presentation. The backlog is the list of prioritized and estimated user stories. And that’s a term used to describe the subtle way that requirements grow in perceptibly during the course of the project.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For example, prioritizing the product backlog or refining the product backlog, doing an own value management with respect to the product backlog or estimating, or having the various project accounting principles with respect to product management. Then of course, Scrum Masters, Kanban Flow Masters They can also go for this certification.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Project tracking software helps you: Understand if you’re on track to meet task, milestone, and project deadlines Time tracking Compare estimated vs. actual efforts and costs Adjust plans quickly if you’re not on schedule or within the budget. And almost all such tools are built for software project teams.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

Risk interaction within systems and subsystems, between functional and physical elements, can also be modeled with DSM. DSM models interacting risks in a graphical representation produce numerical simulations of the risk and impacts on the probability of program success. Traditional risk models cannot model loops.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

Risk interaction within systems and subsystems, between functional and physical elements, can also be modeled with DSM. DSM models interacting risks in a graphical representation produce numerical simulations of the risk and impacts on the probability of program success. Traditional risk models cannot model loops.

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Binfire

MARCH 13, 2017

5-Not planning for Risks. Every project worth doing involves some risks. You need to figure out risks about your project and have a plan on how to fix each issue if they ever materialize. Risk planning is extremely important for larger and more costly projects. One bad apple rots the whole team.

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