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. One notion in a governance paradigm is It's Not Your Money . If you have no uncertainty, then estimates provide no value. This is how business works.

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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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Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This is especially important in software development projects, where terms such as deployment , release , go-live , and implementation get used interchangeably, causing endless confusion and misalignment. Identify tasks, estimate timings, and map a timeline Step 4. Unique to software development projects and product teams.

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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. Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e.,

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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

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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Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

For example, about which software to buy, which Features in the development backlog should be implemented next, what prices to charge for products and services. Software development is an exercise in microeconomics, since it deals with limited resources - time, cost, and what value is produced in exchange for the time and money.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2016

There appears to be a resurgence in the No Projects conversation, similar to the No Estimates notion that has been around for awhile. I’m going to suggest that most of the disconnects around ideas of software development ‒ from No Estimates to No Projects to whatever ‒ starts with Developers and the assumption It’s their money.

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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. This skill was an extension of the signal processing work I did as a grad student looking for information in the data stream of a particle accelerator.

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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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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.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

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. The history of business agility as a concept begins with software development. People, not processes are what makes change happen.

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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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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. from the Greek ??????µ?

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

A nice conversation on twitter about estimates on software brought up the topic of estimates as commitments. The #NoEstimates advocates see estimates as making commitments. Yes, commitments are made when we estimate. oo (an estimate) with a 15% error band (an estimate). . Estimates are not needed.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 18, 2017

Can you make a decision without an estimate? There are NO means of making a credible decision in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of that decision. These two points of view are the basis of any credible business management process. Don't assume, Estimate. This type of fallacy is common. .

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Herding Cats

JUNE 15, 2016

Here's the IT budget for the Federal Government. Estimating and Making Decisions in Presence of Uncertainty. This is larger than all the IT systems found everywhere else in the world, plus all their custom built IT stuff. This is not the embedded systems. These are business systems. Related articles.

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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 is a framework that can be used in a variety of different industries, including software development, marketing, product design, and many others.

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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. billion in 2022 — with no signs of slowing down. What is IT project management?

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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. The budget and scope remain on track, but there are risks to the project’s software development resources following a resignation. Project managers are born communicators. What is an executive summary?

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For software, this can be value produced (assuming we have a unit of measure for that value in the for of effectiveness, performance, key performance parameters, or technical performance measures ). DP6Jw is an overview of this process. It can be the cost, schedule, and technical performance measures of the software project.

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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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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. Using the chosen project management process to track progress and budget. We’ve documented this process in our Guide To Validating New Product Ideas.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Managment Processes. Software for Your Mind: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Creating and Maintaining a Shared Vision. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008.

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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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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. VSM measures the end-to-end speed throughput and efficiency of delivery across all the people and processes involved, from planning to delivery.

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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. 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. Watch the Video 9.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Estimate a project timeframe: Create time estimates for each task. and add that to your cost estimate. You should let the client know that your estimates are, in fact, just estimates and not a fixed cost. Review task estimates and actuals regularly and communicate any significant deviations to the client.

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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. IT provides cost and time estimates and executives prioritize funding based on perceived value delivery in 12-18 months or longer.

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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. Of course not.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). Product Development (#ProdDev). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). While many of the presentations have similar titles, the content is focused on a specific set of processes and practices, while the principles are the same, since they are Immutable. .

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Project Bliss

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

That’s why it’s important to go through the process of identifying your project assumptions. Budget – estimated cost of the project. Technology – this could cover software development, platforms, environments, and infrastructure. Budget – estimated cost of the project.

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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. Risk Management has 6 processes, see SEI Continuous Risk Management. Maintain the Baseline with Repeatable Processes. These describe the increasing maturity of the project's artifacts.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Theory of mind is still in the process of active development. In a number of countries, the process of manufacturing and assembling goods has become for the most part automated making corresponding jobs redundant compared to the previous century. Software developer. Assembly and factory worker.

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