Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I work in a domain where engineered systems are developed for complex software-intensive system of systems. These systems are engineered with a variety of development methods. These systems are developed for external and internal customers. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister.

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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. engineering, IT, human resources, etc.), Also known as continuous process improvement.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Decision Making on Software Development Projects Is Both Simple and Complex at the Same Time. All Uncertainty Creates Risk. Reducible risk requires estimating the probability distribution of the occurrence. Irreducible risk requires estimating the statistical distribution of the naturally occurring processes.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. requires making estimates) ? Risk Management Papers. “A

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Paul Boos has a post about estimating and makes a case for the Principles of when NOT to estimate. This struck a cord around a bigger topic - the inversion of estimating. When should we NOT estimate? Then on to the original conjecture for No Estimates from Paul's post. That is, to make decision with “No estimates”.

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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) ?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 22, 2019

Famously, software engineer and author Tim Lister said that: “Risk management is how adults manage projects.” Plan our work to accommodate risks and contingencies. But in the even less-certain new world of large-scale software development, that was looking increasingly difficult.

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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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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

Yet when projects use new (to us) technology and tackle problems our organizations have not solved before, then risk, uncertainty, and rates of change will be high. Here, formal planning and estimation are difficult because we don’t know what we will encounter. The custom software development was easy to plan (but not easy to do).

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population. The estimate can also be produced parametrically or through a simulation (Monte Carlo is common, but Method of Moments is another we use). . Estimates can be about the past, present, or future.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2018

We can make decisions in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of that decision on our probability of success. Any criticism of the NO Estimates statement is met with being blocked from the discussion. Any criticism of the NO Estimates statement is met with being blocked from the discussion.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This view of the system of producing value in exchange for money ignores the principles of systems engineering. . Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design and manage complex systems over their life cycles. The Measures of Performance are.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 23, 2017

In the estimating business, like many things in project management, there is confusion about principles, practices, and processes. A good estimation approach should provide estimates that are within 25% of the actual results, 75% of the time. Software Engineering Metrics and Models. Dunsmore and V.Y.

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

The project manager will also need to manage assumptions and risks related to the project. Scrum is a framework that can be used in a variety of different industries, including software development, marketing, product design, and many others. The project manager will also want to identify project constraints.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

I work in a domain where engineered systems are developed for complex software-intensive system of systems. These systems are engineered with a variety of development methods. These systems are developed for external and internal customers. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister.

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

This hybrid of business and engineering skills is a superpower. According to the Project Management Institute’s Pulse of the Profession survey , 81% of top-performing companies prioritize the development of technical project management skills. They have an eye for risks, inefficiencies, and technical debt.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 8, 2017

When we hear that the next big thing in agile is Not Estimating, let's look to see how those 12 Principles can be applied without those estimates? . How estimates help implement these principles. Without estimates what is missing. Always a good idea, no matter the development method. Uncertainty that created risk.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Integrating Agile Software Development with Earned Value Management , College of Performance Management, IPM Workshop, 2015.

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nTask

JANUARY 14, 2021

Just to name a few: Website design and development. Software development. Mobile app development. Search engine optimization projects. Search engine marketing projects. If you work as a digital project manager, there are many different types of digital projects you could work on. Content strategy.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2016

But in technical systems - engineered technical systems - the system has to work when commanded to do so. I come to this systems domain from the Software Intensive System of Systems paradigm. This is the domain of Systems Engineering, that many times is based on the principles of Ackoff and others like him. Estimating Guidance.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty.

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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 ? As more details get developed, the Cone converges to the actual value. Steve McConnell.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

A project budget plan provides a comprehensive overview of the financial aspects of the project, including the estimated costs, resources required, and potential risks. Additionally, a well-designed budget plan helps identify potential risks and uncertainties associated with the project.

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Proofhub

JUNE 12, 2023

Benefits of mastering project leadership “Operations keeps the lights on, strategy provides a light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.” — Joy Gumz Mastering project leadership offers several benefits to you and your organizations. Here are some of the key benefits: 1.

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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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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

PERT charts provide a visual representation of a project’s tasks, their dependencies, and the estimated time needed to complete each task. Estimated time durations for each task: Allow project managers to gauge the overall timeline of the project. This allows them to prioritize resources and address potential risks promptly.

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2018

By Susan Parente | Risk Management Guru – Agile Generalist – Instructor and Consultant, IIL. Relative sizing/estimating. Agile Estimating and Sprint Planning – 10 hours on demand. Implementing Scrum and Agile Software Development – 12 hours on demand or 2 days classroom. Team retrospectives. And others.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What are the limitations and risks of metaphor? More on this later under the heading of “risk.” “Velocity” in software development doesn’t mean velocity. ” What are the Limitations and Risks of Metaphor? Estimated hours completed? What is a metaphor not ? Story points?

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Agile ceremonies — also known as Scrum ceremonies or just ‘events’ — are specific events that provide a structured framework for iterative software development processes. Agile is an umbrella term for different iterative and feedback-driven software development processes. Update user stories to properly estimate tasks.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Actually caring about the needs of your sponsor,” says Alberto Pérez Veiga , an IT Engineer at NATO Communications and Information Agency. Perform Risk Management. Consider introducing risk management measures such as simulations and predictions to be ready for the bottlenecks that might compromise your projects in the future.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

Risk Identification: Process models allow project teams to identify potential risks or bottlenecks in the project flow, enabling them to proactively address these issues before they escalate. An in-depth analysis helps identify bottlenecks, areas of inefficiency, and potential risks.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

Software development is a Value Creaton activity, but Value cannot be determined unless we know the cost to produce that value and when that value will be available for use by those who of paid for that Value. For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Microeconomics .

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2017

The classic paper “ Software Engineering Economics,” Barry Boehm, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol SE-10(1), 1984, pp. For software development, there are many decisions to be made. What Feature to develop next ? IT Risk Management. A broader definition is. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

There are mysteries to managing in the presence of uncertainty for those who understand the principles of Risk Management of cost, schedule, and technical performance and know how to apply them using Managerial Finance, Microeconomics of Software Development, and Probabilities Decision making.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. This letter states.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 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. Estimates of cost, schedule, technical performance on the left have a lower probability of being precise and accurate than estimates on the right.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 15, 2017

I've been in the software development business for 30 years, mostly in the Software Intensive System of Systems world, where embedded systems are 100 times more prevalent than business, web and desktop systems. In this domain today, Agile processes are the basis of engineering those systems. VanderLeest GLSEC 2008. "A

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