Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. This is called engineering the solution.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Don't hear one?

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This data includes emails, text messages, IM conversations, call center logs, customer feedback, user interview transcripts, blogs, videos, product reviews, replies in questionnaires, product requirements, status reports, risk assessments, dependency maps, and the countless meetings we all have throughout the year.

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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) ? De Meyer, C. “A

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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. Employ the assets you deliver.

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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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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

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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

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. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Mine is in hard science and systems engineering. illities are a waste.

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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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Productivity Land

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For businesses, remote arrangements help access a wider talent pool, reduce employee costs, and minimize staff turnover and absenteeism-related risks. According to some reports, an estimated 32.6 According to some reports, an estimated 32.6 It is no longer just designers and content creators who have adopted this setup.

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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 ? 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation , Steve McConnell , Construx, 2002. Steve McConnell.

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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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Scrum.org

JUNE 13, 2022

The term “Developer” seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Given this display of distrust—why didn’t the engineers address this seemingly important issue during the Sprint Planning or before—the Developers are probably rather a group than a team anyway.). So don’t waste your time on that.

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Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2021

But uneven workload management leads to burnout, resentment, and all sorts of other risks that can impact your project’s success and the health of your team. It requires you to properly scope projects , break them down into tasks , estimate time and effort , and know which teammates are best suited and available for each one.

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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. One model that is many times misunderstood by the agile community is the Cone of Uncertainty surrounding estimates as well as the technical and operational aspects of the project.

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PM Basics

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Projeudget Template includes planned expenses for all project activities, including wages, materials, fees, risk reserves, etc. I need accurate estimates. You can guess and make the high-level estimation that has a bullet-proof buffer. But here’s the truth: If you want accurate numbers, you need to do the bottom-up estimate.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

Because of the limitations of resources, projects need to operate withing a world of limited resources, the uncertainties - both reducible and irreducible - that create risk, and the emerging attributes of all project work. This is the foundation for estimates. These estimates are critical to both developers and customers.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The #NoEstimates Manifesto - Actually restates Best Practice for estimating and making decisions with those estimates. . Deterministic estimates are point estimates and Point estimates without a Variance are of little value in the presence of uncertainty. Estimates make use of a broad range of models and data .

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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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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. A final Thought . Kirchler, D.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? What would be the evidence that we could make decisions in the presence of uncertanty without estimating the impacts and outcomes of those decisions? . Start here.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

"Iterative Enhancement: A Practical Technique for Software Development," Victor Basil and Albert Turner, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Real-Time Software Engineering in Ada: Observations and Guidelines," Mark Borger, Mark, Klein, and Robert Veltre, technical Report, CMU/SEI-89-TR-022 , September 1989. .

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management. Since reducible and irreducible uncertainties create risk, those uncertainties need to be reduced as the project proceeds for the probability of project success to increase. 37–48, 2007.

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Binfire

MARCH 13, 2017

5-Not planning for Risks. Every project worth doing involves some risks. You need to figure out risks about your project and have a plan on how to fix each issue if they ever materialize. Risk planning is extremely important for larger and more costly projects. One bad apple rots the whole team. 18-Optimistic schedules.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. The supposed evidence in the presentation, that estimating "does not work" starts with the Chaos Report. Principle #3 - Believe the Data, Not The Estimates .

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

The real world is nothing but risk. Conventional approaches to forecasting with empirical data - the supposed No Estimated approach to estimating, hides this fact. Because in forecasting there is no place for uncertainty, which is why No Estimates advocates assert Forecasting is not estimating.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Gartner estimates that a third of organizations are currently applying AI across several business units, a figure that is only set to grow. customers is because it delivers the best artificial intelligence tools for project and task management, for a fraction of the cost of bespoke software engineering solutions.

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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

JULY 29, 2017

This is called Software Engineering Economics. IT Risk Management. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Estimating and Making Decisions in Presence of Uncertainty. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. A final Thought . Kirchler, D.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. A #Noestimates advocate makes the claim that having a ±10% accuracy for estimates of cost and duration is a dangerous thing. Define the probabilistic ranges of the work in a single point estimate manner. Some Model-Based Systems Engineering process.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

If you're not an expert, you're not going to recognize the possible solutions, risks, impediments, and opportunities for the problems you'll encounter in developing a solution that has never been developed before. In all engineering worlds, from software engineering to bending metal for money, there is really nothing new under the sun.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 9, 2017

DeMacro made this post, which has been picked up by the agile community to mean estimating is a waste. . Implying there is no need to measure the project performance and by implication no need to estimate. This is the value at risk discussion. For example in "Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?"

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Herding Cats

MAY 19, 2017

It is popular to claim we've never done this before, so how can we possibly estimate the cost and schedule. If it truly hasn't been done before, then the software project is likely to be an inventing new physics project. In that world, we still made estimates of the cost to design, build, and operate the experiment.

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