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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

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. They may also be writing user stories, using burn-down charts, and practicing agile estimating and planning. Second, how are we building backlogs?

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Project Governance. Basis of Estimate Process.

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Increasing the Probability of Program Success

Herding Cats

We're working on a White Paper for the Joint Space Cost Council which is an organization composed of government (NRO, NASA, USAF, and others) and industry representatives with an interest in space. And to make those risk-informed decisions in the presence of reducible and irreducible uncertainty we need to ESTIMATE.

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Fallacy of the Day

Herding Cats

Measures of Performance - are performance measures that characterize physical or functional attributes relating to the system operation, measured or estimated under specific conditions. Restoring the Balance – when a decision is made, it needs to based on the principles of microeconomics , at least in a governance based organization.

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7 Top Project Management Issues You Can Solve With the Right Tools

Proofhub

This can be a group of people, an individual, a whole organization, or even a government. Underestimating the importance of estimates When it comes to the subject of estimations, many experienced project managers take the view that this is unnecessary. Estimating is a waste of time?—? in a positive or negative way?—?they

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Governance (#Governance). Journal Papers, White Papers, and Essays on Project Success (#Papers). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Project Governance - project management is a well-defined concept found in many guidebooks and Bodies of Knowledge.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. This papers and other resources were retrieved from public sites. COSMIC Software Estimation Approach,” Alain Abran, ICEAA Workshop, Portland Oregon, June 6?9, Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian