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.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

The original post, while likely well meaning, coming from direct experience, focuses on ME the developer. And like many posts and tweets about estimating, it's made from this point of view, not the business point view, not from the point of view of those paying the developer. This Value is developed during the Product Planning session.

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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. Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. This extended post covers.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Understanding this mismatch is key to ensuring your team’s talents are used effectively and your business thrives. Continuous investment in employee development (onboarding programs, ongoing training, fostering a learning culture) is vital to prevent mismatches.

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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.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

is not founded on any principle of business management, microeconomics of decision making, or principles of probability and statistics. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. A Guess is uninformed by experience, skill, or data. It's a fallacy.

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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). The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

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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). The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review 28

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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.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. Fletcher Hearns: Great, thank you Kyle.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 20, 2023

Pre-employment skills testing is like giving your HR team a time machine. With an accurate picture of candidates’ skills — your team can avoid spending up to $16,999 in turnover costs with the wrong fit! Then they’ll only have a handful of relevant candidates to interview, saving the hiring team valuable time.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2020

A profession of a project manager has always been in demand and seems to be gaining momentum more and more. According to PMI’s Job Growth and Talent Gap in Project Management 2017-2027 , organizations’ need for project talent has significantly increased since their previous investigation in 2008. million project experts by 2027.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and management. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. At a minimum, at the end of every week, a Scrum team assess physical percent complete at the end of the Sprint.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and business management. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy, since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. The notion of waterfall development on slide 9 as actually prohibited in our domain. Standish Number.

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Teamweek

MAY 25, 2023

Below, we’ll chat about the importance of resume screening software, why hiring managers should be signing up for new software asap, and how applicant tracking systems are the future of hiring. A recruitment management system simplifies the task of managing numerous job applicants with the applicant tracking system.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

s webinar, Use Agile Project Management with MS Project, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Melanie here with team MPUG. Welcome to Use Agile Project Management with MS Project. Cindy enjoys sharing her knowledge with the project management community. Lewis’ and James Mills JR.’s Melanie: Hello.

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PM Basics

JULY 1, 2020

So, it’s time for you to become an IT project manager. Is it possible at all to become a project manager in an IT company like that? For sure, the easiest way to become a software project manager is by getting a promotion inside an IT company. Featured Download : Getting ready to become an IT Project Manager?

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Leading Agile

JUNE 18, 2018

I remember joining a team in the late 1970s that supported an application used worldwide by a large corporation. The team resolved to drive that number down. We built batch applications that could be restarted at any step without losing data. I guess that worked out okay for a generation of developers.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments.

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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. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points.

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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.

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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.

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Paymo App

JULY 16, 2018

Unfortunately, not having one is still common in practice for smaller teams in particular. Picture this: Your task list is forever growing, new team members are showing up every three weeks, and your client is always asking for last minute changes. of project managers use them daily. Best project planning software options.

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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. 61, September 2004.

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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. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . The Use of Precision of Software Development Effort Estimates to Communicate Uncertainty,” Magne Jørgensen, Software Quality Days.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Today, we take a look at why your software isn’t soft, explore the challenges of writing code at scale, and discuss a modern approach to writing code that will maintain its safety and simplicity over time. Video Transcript Chris Beale In traditional software development. There’s this idea of test driven development.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

Preparing test data to exercise applications prior to deployment. But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Requirements & validation.

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Binfire

MARCH 13, 2017

The secret to success as a project manager or any other profession is to learn from our mistakes and not repeat common mistakes project managers make; even the experienced ones. Project manager’s role is complicated. I am writing this paper with the new project managers and those with no management experience in mind.

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