Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Shipping on time, to specifications, and within budget might be meaningless if a competitor is shipping software that has a greater value to the market. Landmark’s measure of success over these three years had much more to do with customer satisfaction and market share than with meeting knowingly aggressive targets.

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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.

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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When we hear of the difficulties of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty, especially about software features and capabilities, there are straightforward ways to solve this problem. AHP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Saaty. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. References . [1]

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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). Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: . Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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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). Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: . Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Or ANY software project for that matter. In the project domain, an estimate is a calculated approximation of some desired measurement. This is the domain of Microeconomics and when applied to software development it is the microeconomics of software development. First a definition. Why not you?

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

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). Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: . Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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. Anything less results in systems not worth having or fail to function or perform. [3],

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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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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. A tiny snapshot of the analysis that the different software tools went through.

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Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

For approaches that have been implemented on existing systems, obtaining such understanding may require measurement and analysis. For scenarios where the project under consideration does not yet exist, performance prediction using analytical modeling or simulation is necessary. Let's start with a definition.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM).

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

The agile approach is usually used in software projects where the scope is not always known and adaptability is prioritized. Definition: The phase in a project lifecycle where project requirements are fleshed out, solutions analyzed, and the initial project plan charted out. All work is divided into short bursts called "sprints".

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In software development, those managing the project have some understanding the market forces (from their marketing departments), the technology (from their engineering department), and how to manage in the presence of Aleatory and Epistemic risk (the managers running a successful firm). Software projects are non-ergodic.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. Besides the process, software, and User Experience modeling of the interdependent components, Risk Management and most critically Risk Propagation can be modeled with DSM. Actual software process flows contain loops. Independent of what?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. Besides the process, software, and User Experience modeling of the interdependent components, Risk Management and most critically Risk Propagation can be modeled with DSM. Actual software process flows contain loops. Independent of what?

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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. Jeff, a big MPUG welcome back.

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