Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

SAs an early user (as a FORTRAN 77 developer on Software Intensive System of Systems for Ballistic Missle Defense systems), the principles of Iterative and incremental development, emergent requirements, customer in the loop , and other principles, practices, and processes found in Agile started long before the Agile Manifesto. Not exactly.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

What is an estimate? An estimate as a noun is an approximate calculation or judgment of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something. An estimate as a verb is to roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of. But those estimates, nouns, and verbs themselves's have other attributes.

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

government began using it to manage complex defense projects. In order to deliver successful projects, one needs to implement various processes and follow best practices. Scrum The Scrum framework helps teams work together more effectively by implementing the Agile methodology.

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Agilemania

MARCH 3, 2022

According to Scrum Alliance , An agile coach helps organizations, teams, and individuals adopt agile practices and methods while embedding agile values and mindsets. . The responsibilities of a Process Coach include: . Train Scrum Masters, Kanban Leads, and Product Owners . Draft governing policies to aid agile-based practices

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

DP6Jw is an overview of this process. To control this process using feedback and corrective actions ‒ in the same way, your closed loop controller for your air conditioner or heater does - a sampling rate is determined based on the rate of change of the underlying processes. Stochastic process control is the field of study.

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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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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Scrum or agile? describes Scrum and brief explanations of Kanban, Scrumban, Scrum/XP. Pitfalls of agile transformations’ describes seven pitfalls including the importance of a new rhythm is not understood, fear of failure reigns and there is only attention for process.

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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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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Perhaps the most significant reason for the slow growth of many needed project management changes was due to senior management’s desire for standardization of governance and execution for the multitude of traditional projects managed for external clients. Processes were based upon a stationary rather than moving target.

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ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

Scrum is a project management framework that helps small, close-knit teams develop complex products incrementally. Scrum focuses on how people work instead of what they do. Scrum relies agile principles and is the most popular agile methodology out there. What is Scrum. Scrum got its name from rugby. BEFORE SPRINT.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2016

A positive benefit to this could be employers putting existing professionals through the Higher Project Management Apprenticeship scheme, upskilling them at virtually no cost (or at least, through funds already paid to the government in the form of the levy). Will 2017 be the year we get our first Chartered Project Professionals?

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

They provide a structured approach to understanding complex processes, decision frameworks, or phenomena, serving as thinking strategies. Process improvement strategies and lean principles like Just-In-Time (JIT) Production and 5S Methodology might be some methods that project managers would be familiar with.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Agile A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects in an iterative way with short bursts of work called “sprints” Though initially designed as a process for IT and engineering projects, it has since been successfully applied to other industries like marketing.

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Leading Agile

JULY 26, 2023

However, in practice, often we find ourselves engaging in unproductive activities within the Scrum framework without truly driving organizational change. There is a middle ground between simply adopting Scrum and figuring everything out on the go, and the pressure of getting everything exactly right and flawless.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Our Favorite Part “What Transformation is NOT, is teaching people how to do Scrum or SAFe. Valuable, just not Transformation. So that’s kind of like my hot take on SAFe, and if SAFe is Agile. Watch the Video 9.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

And so if you show up and like you say, “Hey, I want to adopt Agile,” but you know, you’re not familiar with the strategies or Agile governance strategies or such, right? So, you think SAFE, Large-Scale Scrum maybe, although I don’t know that fits in that category, Scrum as a model, XP as a model, and things like that.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, the digital transformation market was estimated at a whopping $731.1 with examples of IT projects) IT project management is the process of planning, organizing, running, and managing information technology projects. This meant they couldn’t process orders, and customers were unhappy. What is IT project management?

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ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

Scrum is a project management framework that helps small, close-knit teams develop complex products incrementally. Scrum focuses on how people work instead of what they do. Scrum relies on agile principles and is the most popular agile methodology out there. What is Scrum. Scrum got its name from rugby.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

They did a great job of getting the message out Scrum and the Scrum certification did a great job of getting the message out. Does it mean that we start Doing Scrum, right? Because those are the things that fundamentally get in the way how we govern, right, how we deal with cross cutting concerns.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Scrum is) more defined rather than empirical process. scrum, not agile. not as it was prior to scrum. Scrum is prescriptive and defined rather than empirical. This took me back since Scrum is derived from an empirical closed loop control system developed in the USAF by Col. Agile in name only. Boyds papers.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For software projects, Scrum can be used. And finally, since all project work operates in the presence of uncertainty, we must make estimates in order to execute the project in a Closed Loop manner. These questions and the principles, processes, and practices to support them are Governance of the project. Resources .

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Our Favorite Part “What Transformation is NOT, is teaching people how to do Scrum or SAFe. Valuable, just not Transformation. So that’s kind of like my hot take on SAFe, and if SAFe is Agile. Watch the Video 9.

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MPUG

APRIL 15, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Lead Course Developer for Edwards Performance Solutions, as such he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. 49 processes that you could follow. Here’s what comes next.

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

Establish project governance: Project charter templates help to identify key stakeholders and team members involved in the project, e.g., project sponsors, project manager, and team lead, indicating who is responsible for specific tasks and who has the authority to make decisions. This includes personnel, equipment, and funding.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Agile governance is a process that focuses on bringing the most value by focusing on what matters. Good governance ensures that the policies and decision-making process align with successful delivery when you incorporate agile in your organization’s strategic goals through projects and programs.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

A project-based funding structure creates a slower, more complicated budgeting process that requires estimates, plans, and details far before they are able to be accurate. Progress is measured based on compliance to plan, instead of actual business outcomes or customer satisfaction. Lean More.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes.

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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. Estimates are for the business, why would the business no longer want an estimate of cost, schedule, or technical performance of the provided capabilities?

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With regard to the Tiger Tops workforce, what is the estimated time-on-the-job for all employees (in years)? Please describe the process in your own words…. Well, we had to move one entire lodge from the interior of the jungle, to the exterior (as mandated by the government). We use lots of white boards (no paper either)!

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Herding Cats

APRIL 15, 2017

Why estimates don't work - Carmen is assigned a project that will make or break the company. Then comes one of three quotes that are the basis of the argument for NOT estimating. This quote is misused to suggest that estimating can't be done. There seem to be many surprises in such processes. Chapter 1 Introduction.

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Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2017

The findings in this document are extracted by looking for correlations between decisions or behaviors (keeping teams stable, setting your team sizes to between five and nine, keeping your work in process— WiP—low, etc.) The other statistical issue is the chart showing #Noestimates versus other types of estimates. But one more thing.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

This is not to say those 5 developers sitting around the table with the Product Owner and the Scrum Master are not working on vitally important code. The Release Plan is built during the Release Management process which plans, manages, and governs release of products resulting from the development effort. Process is King.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2017

No matter the engineering processes used to produce the outcomes from the project. Estimating how much is the starting point. Since all risks come from uncertainty, we have to estimate those uncertainties, their impacts, their residual risks after mitigation. Estimating is part of risk management. No Estimating?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

I wasn’t around when things like XP and Scrum were invented, but I have been lucky enough to spend time with many of the original signers of the Manifesto. They hypothesized that estimating the cards and doing burn-down charts would increase throughput. If you are doing Scrum or XP and cannot do that, you aren’t doing Agile very well.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2018

Five Different Decision-Making Strategies That Don't Need Estimates. How can you know what is strategic without estimating the strategic value to those paying? How can you know what is strategic without estimating the strategic value to those paying? No Estimate needed. This is from a #Noestimates presentation.

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Planio

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Or is there an end date that coincides with some other event such as a change in government regulation (like GDPR ) that affects your business model? You might be able to estimate a timeline, but as you’re working iteratively it’s not as simple as picking dates on the calendar. In Agile companies, this can often be hard to do.

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MPUG

MARCH 18, 2021

Jeff is currently the lead course developer for Edward’s Performance Solution and oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. We want to describe the context of SIPOC within business process creation and improvement.

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