Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This, of course, is a violation of the principles of Managerial Finance and Microeconomics of software development in the presence of uncertainty and scarce resources. Software Project Cost Estimation . There are numerous horror stories about software development cost and schedule overruns.

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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.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Baseline An original plan for measuring performance and tracking changes. 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. identify items such as benefits and costs).

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Third, how are we reproducing working tests in software? Additionally, we need to consider how we organize teams in the presence of dependencies, how we orchestrate and govern those dependencies, and what we measure and control around the team. How are we orchestrating and governing those dependencies? How are we forming teams?

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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

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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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

Yes, they do enjoy profits, but those come when markets are consistent, where managers can plan accurately for a future that is clearly laid out before them. There are trends and systems that can calculate and estimate the likelihood of what is to come, but the reality is there are too many variables to make any such equation infallible.

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Planio

APRIL 22, 2024

According to some estimates , PMs spend 90% of their time communicating with team members, sponsors, and stakeholders. Whether it’s a business case, project plan, or market analysis, an executive summary is a great way to get the project’s most important information across quickly and clearly. Project managers are born communicators.

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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. Why This Missing Concept is Important to Agile Software Development? .

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Planview

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, many digital transformation initiatives struggle to deliver the expected financial value, with more than half lagging behind original estimates, according to a Gartner survey of CIOs. It’s critical to be asking the right questions: How does strategy become a plan? Are the right objectives being focused on?

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, the digital transformation market was estimated at a whopping $731.1 Planning 3. with examples of IT projects) IT project management is the process of planning, organizing, running, and managing information technology projects. billion in 2022 — with no signs of slowing down. How is it unique? Initiation 2. Execution 4.

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

Project Management is a systematic and organized approach to planning, coordinating, and overseeing the work of a team to achieve a specific goal. It involves defining the project scope and objectives, creating a detailed plan, and identifying the resources and schedule required to complete the project.

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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. Creating actionable project plans 5. Planning and scheduling project resources 6. Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies 8. But there’s a problem.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Making changes late in the development cycle has significant impacts on the verification and validation of the system no matter the software development method. . A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management. It's as simple as that.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Capabilities Based Planning. Capabilities Based Planning (V2). Software for Your Mind: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Creating and Maintaining a Shared Vision. Deliverables Based Planning. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance.

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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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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

And it’ll be up to you to demonstrate a credible plan for how Agile will help them solve that. And how they are used in a changing software development and deployment structure. And how they are used in a changing software development and deployment structure. So, it’s up to you to create safety and build trust.

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Planview

JUNE 28, 2019

Adopting Lean-Agile budgeting practices helps to decrease funding overhead and friction while maintaining financial governance, helping to align budgeting practices with Lean-Agile goals. Business units present their ideas to the PMO in an annual planning meeting. By the time the PMO receives the plan, it might already be out of date.

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Project Bliss

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

When you plan your project, you’re operating on a set of assumptions. They’re called assumptions because you assume that for your project to move forward successfully as planned, these things will be in place. However, things don’t always go as planned. Budget – estimated cost of the project.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Planning and Scheduling (#PS). Integrated Master Plan and Master Schedule (#IMPIMS). Product Development (#ProdDev). Product Development (#ProdDev). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). This starts with a Plan to deliver those Capabilities. Risk Management (#RM).

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Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. What is a Team?

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

Creating a project charter at the start is crucial to establish unified effort across teams, determine the best action plan , and visualize the project outcome. We’ll end with a walkthrough of how to map every phase of your project life cycle using Wrike’s free work plan template. This includes personnel, equipment, and funding.

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nTask

AUGUST 18, 2019

PERT or Project Evaluation and Review Technique is a statistical tool that is used in project management to estimating the minimum time required for a project to complete by analyzing all the tasks required and by calculating the minimum time it would take to complete each task in the project. Steps in the PERT Planning Process.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. There are not specific to Agile Software Development. Product Roadmap and Release Plan describe the needed capabilities to be delivered by the project. This is connected to the Financial Plan for earning back the investment of the development.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 17, 2018

We know old concepts that govern agriculture do not apply to industry. Yet many project managers who work in the knowledge worker domain still apply project management approaches developed for the industrial era. Conformance to schedules and plans made the scaling of a workforce possible. Introduction.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 17, 2018

We know old concepts that govern agriculture do not apply to industry. Yet many project managers who work in the knowledge worker domain still apply project management approaches developed for the industrial era. Conformance to schedules and plans made the scaling of a workforce possible.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

The following topics will be discussed during the conference: Effective Agile Planning, Product Thinking and Value Delivery, Role of a Manager in an Agile Organization, Agile Project Lead, and others. February 2-3 — Agile & Beyond 2021 will be hosted alig ning with the Agile20Reflect Festival. Check out the website to learn more.

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Planio

JANUARY 16, 2023

Lay your cards out by creating a solid governance structure. Plan in an Agile way. Project planning templates. 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. Project planning. 5 tips for organizing your team.

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Planio

JUNE 19, 2023

Projects fail for many reasons — but one of the most common is poor planning. In fact, studies have shown that around 27% of projects fail because of inaccurate task estimates, with another 11% failing due to undefined task dependencies. Estimate each activity with the PERT formula 5. That’s where PERT comes in.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

So the answer to the software question needs to be determined by two things for a closed loop control system: The pace of software deliverables – if your sampling the state of the software outcomes longer than you are producing those outcomes, errors unfavorable outcomes are accumulating faster than you are measuring them.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

And it’ll be up to you to demonstrate a credible plan for how Agile will help them solve that. And how they are used in a changing software development and deployment structure. And how they are used in a changing software development and deployment structure. So, it’s up to you to create safety and build trust.

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2023 Underperforming Technical Team Agile 2024 62

Leading Answers

JUNE 17, 2018

We know old concepts that govern agriculture do not apply to industry. Yet many project managers who work in the knowledge worker domain still apply project management approaches developed for the industrial era. Conformance to schedules and plans made the scaling of a workforce possible. Introduction.

Engineering 60

Engineering Software Developers Software Development Risk Management 60

Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Software developer. Of course, AI will have a significant impact on software development. So, in the near future, software developers are not expected to be fully replaced by artificial intelligence, though the specifics of their work can change over time. . As for Type 2, it includes the following: .

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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. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. Is this normal?

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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. For software development starts with. This solution is called Software Engineering.

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