Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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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 A project is something that has a definite start and end (i.e., Also known as continuous process improvement.

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

” This definition emphasizes the temporary and unique nature of a project, with a predetermined start and end date, as well as its focus on creating a specific outcome. government began using it to manage complex defense projects. From start to finish, a project usually goes through 5 phases, called the Project Life Cycle.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? An estimate is. It's a fallacy.

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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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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2019

A critical success factor for a software development project is how it is funded. But greater flexibility generally requires a more skillful approach to governance and project management. But greater flexibility generally requires a more skillful approach to governance and project management.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Thus, despite the fact that artificial intelligence has already become a part of our everyday lives, this field is still under development, which will definitely lead to profound changes in numerous spheres of human activity, in particular, human jobs and employment. . Software developer. The Impact of AI on Employment.

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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 ? This variation can be explained by the fact that initial concepts do not describe the final software system accurate enough.

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

You can also take a look at Enlyft’s list of ERPs and their estimated market shares here. For a great immersion into ERP applications, you can check out Oracle’s definition video for ERP solutions and their benefits. How does ERP Software Selection Work? Have your selection team develop a change management business strategy.

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

You can also take a look at Enlyft’s list of ERPs and their estimated market shares here. . For a great immersion into ERP applications, you can check out Oracle’s definition video for ERP solutions and their benefits. How does ERP Software Selection Work? Have your selection team develop a change management business strategy.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2017

This quote is coming back in the modern era of internet-based misinformation pundits in many domains, including project management and software development processes. But it only takes one black swan to falsify the claim definitively. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Related articles.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Thus, despite the fact that artificial intelligence has already become a part of our everyday lives, this field is still under development, which will definitely lead to profound changes in numerous spheres of human activity, in particular, human jobs and employment. . Software developer. The Impact of AI on Employment.

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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

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Lead Course Developer 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 cybersecurity. Estimating has not changed.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To clarify how to categorize tasks in your bimodal IT strategy, here are precise definitions of mode 1 vs. mode 2. Therefore, any software development project where team members are familiar with the process and have clarity of project requirements can be considered mode 1. Mode 2 follows a more Agile and iterative process.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 15, 2017

Why estimates don't work - Carmen is assigned a project that will make or break the company. Then comes one of three quotes that are the basis of the argument for NOT estimating. This quote is misused to suggest that estimating can't be done. I posted some comments on the #NoEstimates book awhile back. Chapter 1 Introduction.

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Planio

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Or is there an end date that coincides with some other event such as a change in government regulation (like GDPR ) that affects your business model? You might be able to estimate a timeline, but as you’re working iteratively it’s not as simple as picking dates on the calendar. In Agile companies, this can often be hard to do.

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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. Per Scrum Guide the Scrum Master’s services. To Product Owner.

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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. Per Scrum Guide the Scrum Master’s services. To Product Owner.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

And so, from how we do governance and how we do project planning and how we do organizational structure, all those kinds of things, right, so there’s this big hop. Because those are the things that fundamentally get in the way how we govern, right, how we deal with cross cutting concerns. We know what we can produce every sprint.

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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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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. The No Estimates advocates have a similar set of behaviors.).

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In our Software Intensive System of Systems domain, this is the definition of Agile we use from the now-Secretary of Defense Dr. Carter. Making decisions in the presence of this emerging uncertainty requires making estimates of the impacts or outcomes of any decision. How to Avoid the "Yesterday's Weather" Estimating Problem.

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MPUG

MARCH 18, 2021

Jeff is currently the lead course developer for Edward’s Performance Solution and oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. Where does that definition come from? Observation. Is it predictable?

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. The No Estimates advocates have a similar set of behaviors.).

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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. 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.

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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). Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: . The BLUE bars are the probabilistic ranges of the current estimate date.

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). Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: . The BLUE bars are the probabilistic ranges of the current estimate date.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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). Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: . Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty.

Technical Review 28

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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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Herding Cats

MAY 25, 2018

Let's look at the principles of cost, price, and value to the customer from the point of view of the business funding the development of the software, the customer buying the software, and the financial models needed to know if the firm producing the software can stay in business over time. . Related articles.

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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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Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Can All This Formality Have Any Use in Modern Software Development? The notion that agile development is a free-for-all development of what ever the customer wants to produce next, with the customer identifying the next important thing to develop works just fine for de minimus projects. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

MAY 25, 2018

Let's look at the principles of cost, price, and value to the customer from the point of view of the business funding the development of the software, the customer buying the software, and the financial models needed to know if the firm producing the software can stay in business over time. . Related articles.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. Having spent half my life in the commercial space and half in the government space, the questions are always there. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs. Again, my name is Fletcher Hearns. What’s happening now.

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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. Why This Missing Concept is Important to Agile Software Development? .

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