Herding Cats

DECEMBER 30, 2017

One of the 4 summary root causes of project performance failures is Unrealistic Cost and Schedule Estimates based on inadequate risk-adjusted growth models. If you have no uncertainty, then estimates provide no value. Risk Management is how adults manage projects - Tim Lister. This is how business works.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. There is a discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. In all cases, we start our work with.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Project estimation is the backbone of proper project planning and execution. Using the right project estimation techniques helps managers predict the time, cost, and resources needed to complete a project. What is parametric estimating? What is parametric estimating? Analogous and parametric estimating.

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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. How will we recognize it when we encounter it? Any expectations of how to measure if what we found is what we're actually looking for? An estimate is.

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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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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. To be informed how to estimate in this broad range of domains, problems, and impacts - education, exp[erience, and skill are needed.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2019

A critical success factor for a software development project is how it is funded. In this blog I’ll explore several common options for funding software development projects. Stage gate: With this strategy we estimate and then fund the project for a given period of time before going back for more funding.

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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. This is basic managerial finance when spending other people’s money.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Risk Management has six steps: Planning risk management - decides how to approach and plan the risk management activities for the project. Performance quantitative risk analysis - numerically estimates the effects of risk on project objectives. In each step, uncertainty is present. Anyone suggesting that has failed to understand .

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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. Managerial Finance - the branch of finance that concerns itself with the managerial significance of finance techniques. These principles originate in: . Lumbreras, Pedro Soto?Acosta,

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The software solution’s versatile nature allows it to fall into several categories of business software, all in one software or software package. If you want to see more ERP providers with a list of software with end-user feedback h e re. How does ERP Software Selection Work?

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The software solution’s versatile nature allows it to fall into several categories of business software, all in one software or software package. If you want to see more ERP providers with a list of software with end-user feedback h e re. How does ERP Software Selection Work?

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Herding Cats

MAY 23, 2016

Estimating is part of all decision making in the presence of uncertainty. Accuracy and precision are two primary attributes of all estimates. We all know estimates are hard. But there are lots of hard things in the development of enterprise software. Estimating is part of all engineering disciplines.

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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. Managerial Finance - the branch of finance that concerns itself with the managerial significance of finance techniques. These principles originate in: . Lumbreras, Pedro Soto?Acosta,

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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

JUNE 25, 2016

There's another rash of Twitter posters supporting the conjecture that decisions can be made about how to spend other people's money without estimating the impact and outcome of that decision. Software development decision making is a well studied subset of that field. Making Conjectures Without Testable Outcomes.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 27, 2018

First let’s keep the concept of ROI basic, which is in this context: Applying this equation to a real-life example, if the cost for rolling out a SMILE activity = $10,000 and the estimated value of the program is $100,000 (considering quantitative and/or qualitative factors such as listed above): This number is not exaggerated.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I've since lost my handbook issued at TRW for the Software Development Lifecycle processes used on the programs we worked, but the loop approach of plan, do, study, act was at the basis of that method. You cannot make an informed decision in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impact of that decision.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

Let’s say you’re managing a software development project. You may need SOPs for tasks such as code review, software testing, and release management. This way, your team will have a clear understanding of how to execute tasks within the context of your project’s methodology.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

As organizations realize software represents a market differentiator, they recognize their systems will never be “done.” So, they move from the start-stop world of software development through projects and instead adopt continuous development and drip-feed funding models.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Brown and his book The Handbooks of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management and my review of the same book. This decision model for software development projects addressed: performance, cost, time, and risk.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

This is a good starting point for not only Scrum and other agile methods, that can be used to test the validity of any method suggested to replace or augment the current agile software development processes. How to Avoid the "Yesterday's Weather" Estimating Problem. See link below on Closed Loop Control). Don't buy it.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Every once in awhile a reasonably intelligent No Estimates advocate shows up in a Twitter discussion. They often say you should be open-minded and try the concepts of No Estimates first. . This is the traditional No Estimates argument - you're being a troll because you're asking me pointed questions.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This is a good starting point for answering the mail on the notion that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impact of those decisions. How would that suggestion be tangibly beneficial to the recipient that is now inverted? Let's look at these Notes and plausible responses to the conjectures.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

As organizations realize software represents a market differentiator, they recognize their systems will never be “done.” So, they move from the start-stop world of software development through projects and instead adopt continuous development and drip-feed funding models.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2016

How do you define, design, represent, assess, analyze, and manage these interactions. Finance, social, political. When I hear about complex software systems and how difficult they are, and how undesirable they are, and all the other urban legends about complexity, complex, complicated and chaos, I get a smile.

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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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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

What to Expect: This three-day event focuses on the importance of planning, scheduling and how to manage scope. There will be breakout sessions on using project management tools and techniques to help with more accurate estimates, how to keep projects on track and on evaluation of project performance. Website: [link].

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Workzone

APRIL 30, 2020

There are multiple project views and options for managing projects, so without clear internal processes, you may struggle with figuring out how to best set up the tool. Plus, some users find it isn’t very intuitive, so it may take your team a while to learn how to use it. It also includes finance-tracking functionality.

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Workzone

JULY 18, 2022

I also feel it’s really easy to sit down with someone and map out a new project, including dependent tasks, hour estimates, and so on, without having to worry that it will be a pain for someone to implement – we can brainstorm how things will go, map it out, then simply drop it into the system ”. user per month.

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Scoro

APRIL 10, 2018

Detailed reports on project progress and finances. Top features: Develop the project management plan estimating activity duration, create workflows. Output Time is simple project management software with emphasis on team collaboration. Project estimation tool and milestones. How to Be a Kickass Project Manager.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 12, 2021

But how to distinguish between them? Healthcare project manager; Finance project manager; Insurance project manager; Utility project manager, Legal project manager. As, for example, an IT project manager orchestrates IT projects and leads corresponding teams in their software development efforts. Project Manager.

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Workzone

APRIL 23, 2020

I also feel it’s really easy to sit down with someone and map out a new project, including dependent tasks, hour estimates, and so on, without having to worry that it will be a pain for someone to implement – we can brainstorm how things will go, map it out, then simply drop it into the system ”. user per month.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. How to do this: Start by getting a deeper understanding of your market, competition, users, and opportunities. But there’s a problem. These are your main stakeholders.

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Planio

JANUARY 16, 2023

In this guide, we’ve collected the best project management tips for new project managers - from what skills to focus on to how to get settled in a new role, run projects, and build your influence. Unlike a software developer, graphic designer, or accountant, your job isn't to do the doing , your job is to ensure the doing gets done.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A rough order of magnitude estimate, also known as ROM, is an estimation of a project’s level of effort and cost to complete. ROM estimates take place early in a project life cycle and guide strategy and planning choices. Generally, it’s used for estimating a project budget that doesn’t have a lot of detail.

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