Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

This ignores the principles of predictive analytics, and the direct management actions taken to produce outcomes from those analytical models found everywhere from project management to grocery store management and the model-based systems engineering. In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

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). This is done by active risk management, through probabalistic decision-making.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

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

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 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 NOT the result of the project's past performance.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

In this paper, there is data that does not follow the Cone of Uncertainty, in that the uncertainty of the estimates does not reduce as the project proceeds. While the data supports some aspects of the cone of uncertainty, it doesn’t support the most common conclusion that uncertainty significantly decreases as the project progresses.

2007 42

2007 2012 2006 2008 42

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. System One - automatic.

Transportation 39

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Risk Management is how Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. There are two kinds of uncertainty on all projects, no matter the domain, including software development projects. Both these drivers of risk will impact the probability of success of projects. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults.

2009 28

2009 2015 Influencer Performance Measurement 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management.

2012 29

2012 2007 2010 2006 29

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. System One - automatic.

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Rarely the case in software development, where Little's Law is misused often. The OP claimed Goodhart's Law was the source of most of the problems with software development. Is this macroeconomic model a correct operational model for software development processes - measuring changes the target ?

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Estimate Software Developers Software Development 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Here's an extract from "Chapter 8: Human Behavior and Complexity," Terry Cooke-Davies, in Aspects of Complexity: Managing Projects in a Complex World. Drawing Unsupported Conclusions from Incomplete and Inconclusive Data, it is not only natural but also laudable, to seek evidence that confirms something that we hold to be true.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's say you're the project or program manager of a large complex system. We cannot escape these two uncertainties - reducible and irreducible - and must learn how to manage in the presence of these uncertainties. Is each of these measures being met for the planned cost at the planned time? . Abstracted from [3].

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

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. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. These are all focused on developing software, delivering that software to those paying the developers. Systems Management is the Science of Systems Engineering. Systems Engineering.

Software Developers 39

Software Developers Software Development Agile Software 39

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Product Development (#ProdDev).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Project management terminology can be complicated. It doesn’t matter whether you’re working towards your PMP certification or simply managing projects casually in your organization, knowing core project management terms always helps. All Project Management Terms. All work is divided into short bursts called "sprints".

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. probably not.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The project and portfolio management (PPM) software market is changing. In this article we look at emerging software in the PPM space and discuss how its selection and implementation needs to be done in line with an overarching digital strategy. Digitalization and Collaboration. Researching What PPM Tools Can Do.

Software Review 150

Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.

Software Review 34

Software Review Technical Review Estimate Software Developers 34

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Need up-to-date facts and figures for a project management report, article, or infographic? Browse this collection of project management statistics collected from studies and reports from the past five years. The data and statistics below are sorted into categories so you can quickly skim to find the information you need.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. That means the system architecture, the process flow, the data flow architecture components all how NO dependencies on other. This makes no sense for any development project beyond a de minimis project. Traditional risk models cannot model loops.

Underperforming Technical Team 32

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. That means the system architecture, the process flow, the data flow architecture components all how NO dependencies on other. This makes no sense for any development project beyond a de minimis project. Traditional risk models cannot model loops.

Underperforming Technical Team 28

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 28

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security.

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59