Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

We all dream of reaching maximum success with our teams and projects, even though project failure is common. Business drivers have to be translated into project drivers by a strong technical team, not management. Incorrect definition of project success. What is the most effective way to avoid failure?

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In working with technical people at the individual and team levels, I often find attitudes that pull toward one extreme or the other: Either our work is inherently uninteresting, and we’re only in it for the paycheck; or our work is a boundless source of joy, learning, and achievement through which we can transcend the human condition.

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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. Chakraborty and K.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. There was another study done that shows that 122 million wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance, a 12% increase over the previous years. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers.

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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 7, 2018

This makes no sense for any development project beyond a de minimis project. It can be used to identify appropriate teams, work groups, and a sequence of how the tasks can be arranged. This always takes us back the coupling and cohesion discussion all of us who were Software Engineers in the 1980's .

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If, for example, a project manager believes a member of his or her team is a fast and effective worker, each time that team member works fast and effectively or is told by a colleague about the work that has been done fast and effectively, the project manager will consider his or her belief to be well-founded. First a definition.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

This makes no sense for any development project beyond a de minimis project. It can be used to identify appropriate teams, work groups, and a sequence of how the tasks can be arranged. This always takes us back the coupling and cohesion discussion all of us who were Software Engineers in the 1980's .

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Planio

APRIL 16, 2020

Out of the nearly 90,000 people who took StackOverflow’s latest developer survey , the majority said the greatest challenge to their productivity is a distracting work environment. Batch your communication time (and set clear expectations with your team). Unfortunately, we’re pretty bad at making that distinction.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. 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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

Melanie here with team MPUG. He has 30 years as a new product development project management professional. He has lead projects that introduce durable goods, create hardware and software, integrate hardware and software and he’s brought up manufacturing facilities globally. Melanie: Hello.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Before listening to any conjecture that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of Uncertainty for software development, please read these books. What are we looking for? Reading Materials.

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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. We use Vitech's Core.

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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. This is a common problem in low maturity development organizations. The definition of a TPM is on page 14. . . Measure of Performance.

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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

This is from the PMI, pulse of profession survey and it says that 47% of unsuccessful projects fail to meet original goals due to poor requirements. Why is there a 30% failure rate that are the result of inaccurate requirements gathering or poor requirements. Validation, the team built the right system. What is going on?

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The whole gamut of frameworks and methodologies you’ll be learning while doing ACP certification, such as XP, that is Extreme Programming, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, which is Feature Driven Development and TDD, which is Test Driven Development, among many others. So definitely you are also having a salary boost.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. .

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. .

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. .

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 22, 2018

My team is frustrated and demoralized, and I think I’m the cause. We’re a busy software team and we juggle multiple projects. Here are some signs that you are micromanaging your team. Another sad measure of being a micromanager is that your team has a high turnover. Micromanagement is Bad for Morale.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 17, 2018

We’ve had a bad habit at our house over the years. The connection with software development/maintenance is probably obvious. Tying Up Loose Ends in Software. Keeping code clean at all times really ought to be considered baseline job performance for a software engineer. Tying Up Loose Ends at Home.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 27, 2018

A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. You probably spotted my error immediately.

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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. It’s amusing until one reflects on the potential consequences when a large proportion of software we depend on for everyday life is of this quality.

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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. And we tend to then find that at the end.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. First, there’s a tool-centric mentality about software-related work. Try installing a typical business application on a pristine development environment. Requirements & validation.

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