Herding Cats

MARCH 23, 2017

In the estimating business, like many things in project management, there is confusion about principles, practices, and processes. A good estimation approach should provide estimates that are within 25% of the actual results, 75% of the time. Software Engineering Metrics and Models. Dunsmore and V.Y.

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Wrike

JUNE 24, 2021

More than 28% of projects end up failing due to inaccurate estimates and poor project planning. The steps include identifying: All project activities (including the name of the team member assigned to each task and estimated time for completion). Task durations and predetermined date of completion, including estimated time frames.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

At its foundation, agile product management is a reaction to the widespread usage of agile software development approaches such as scrum or kanban. However, the high failure rate of large-scale and time-consuming software development initiatives necessitated a more flexible approach.

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nTask

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Its capacity to analyze data, spot patterns, and make informed predictions makes it a powerful tool for project managers and across the whole business environment. AI technology will become better at analyzing data and predicting completion times, without the need for rough estimates by project managers.

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Techno-PM

MAY 12, 2022

DevOps is a software development practice that stresses communication, collaboration, integration, and automation. It helps organizations shorten the time to get software from development to production by bringing together developers and operations professionals. What Are the Benefits of DevOps? Why do You Need DevOps?

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TrustRadius Project Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Even though software buyers might be looking for different things in a project management solution, it turns out there’s a high degree of agreement about the most important elements of a project management solution. Lead Systems Analyst | Information Technology and Services (10,001+ employees) .

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Productivity Land

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” Direct costs are those that have a direct impact on the completion of your project and include things like specialized software, contractor hours, travel and meal costs, mileage, and so on. They’re crucial because project managers frequently ignore them when estimating costs or putting together bids.

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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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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

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. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Specifics of Information Technology Projects. Resource management software solutions can make this task much easier. It consists of the following elements: realistic scope and time estimates and task prioritization, . That’s what we’re going to figure out in this article. . Solution: Manage team members’ workload.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 15, 2017

I've been in the software development business for 30 years, mostly in the Software Intensive System of Systems world, where embedded systems are 100 times more prevalent than business, web and desktop systems. IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW ACQUISITION PROCESS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS. Coe and Jeffrey H. 217–231, 2017.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 13, 2018

Estimation locks down choices early through upfront t decision making, #NoEstimates preserves options. This is the same paradigm of Agile software development where responding to change over following the plan is part of the original manifesto. Aligning Software Investment Decisions with the Markets ," Hakan Erdogmus. "

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MPUG

AUGUST 29, 2022

construction projects and software projects). General management: This area includes knowledge and skills related to staffing, organizing, financial management, accounting, procurement, sales and marketing, logistics, supply chain, and information technology. Realistic estimation and planning.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Currently, there are numerous instructions available on the internet, video guides, and bots that are capable of troubleshooting computer hardware and software, so a lot of companies are already using them. As AI technology becomes more sophisticated, these specialists may become no longer needed. . Software developer.

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MPUG

JUNE 17, 2019

Let’s look at each area: Change Management : Within information technology (IT) systems and quality managing systems (QMS) is a strategy and process used to insure that changes to a product or service are introduced in a controlled and contained way. See Figure 1.1 Integrated Change Control. A few examples: Cybersecurity threats.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 2, 2017

So the first part is following standard estimating principles. which states clearly and concisely that decisions can be made (in the presence of uncertainty - which is ALWAYS present on software development projects - without estimating the impact of those decisions. From large construction to software development.

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Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Definition DevOps: “ DevOps is an evolution of the ideas of agile software development and lean manufacturing, applied to the end-to-end value chain in IT, which allows businesses to achieve more with modern information technology due to cultural, organizational and technical changes ”. The book is built around 6 chapters.

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Herding Cats

MAY 9, 2017

It seems of late there is a campaign in the software development community, especially in the agile community where ignorance is a virtue. This domain includes the management of Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management of projects in the domain of Software Intensive System of Systems. Related articles. IT Risk Management.

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PM Times

APRIL 7, 2021

Not only were they able to evaluate complexity, but they also used the data to estimate resources and project duration in a matter of minutes. It deployed a sophisticated approach referencing historical information and a scoring tailored to their environment. Waterfall) methodology for a highly dynamic software project ( Butler, C.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. Dorofee, et.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 26, 2017

That may be a nice idea, but from the balance sheet Point of View, Done means we can record the capital expense or we can record the Capital Income from the software. Information Technology Estimating Quality. FASB 86 speaks to this as do other accounting practices. Related articles. Deadlines Always Matter.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty.

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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) ? reducible and irreducible ?

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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. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. A final Thought . Palacios, Cristina Casado?Lumbreras,

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

Currently, there are numerous instructions available on the internet, video guides, and bots that are capable of troubleshooting computer hardware and software, so a lot of companies are already using them. As AI technology becomes more sophisticated, these specialists may become no longer needed. . Software developer.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 29, 2017

How we can't possibly estimate the work since all the work is emergent. IEEE Computer Society, March 19, 1998, IEEE Guide for Information Technology—System Definition—Concept of Operations (ConOps) Document (IEEE Std 1362-1998). This is how software becomes bloatware. Requirements without needs are a waste.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 28, 2016

In a recent Blog post titled Precision it is suggested Precision (or the implication thereof) is perhaps the root problem of most, if not all dysfunction related to estimation. . Estimates have precision and accuracy, but the reason for these unfavorable outcomes is not stated in the post. Yes, projects have uncertainty.

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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. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. A final Thought . Palacios, Cristina Casado?Lumbreras,

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Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

EasyProjects

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Technology Services Association (TSIA) gathered data from professional services organizations over many years and, in 2014 produced a definitive report on the benefits of the PMO. The leading PMOs now are not so much “users” of information technology as they are IT platforms. The Decisive Easy Projects Advantage.

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Redbooth

MAY 10, 2018

At Redbooth, we help companies manage projects using our software. Information Technology and Financials get work done the fastest. To conclude, we present all the data on how long it takes for task completion in each industry where we have sufficient data to provide a productivity estimate.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Can All This Formality Have Any Use in Modern Software Development? IEEE Guide for Information Technology - System Definition-Concept of Operations (ConOps) Document , IEEE Standard 1362-1998, IEEE Computer Society, March 19, 1998. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Related articles.

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nTask

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Obviously, in this fast-paced market, you are never going to perform all of these different processes by hand, and you need an incredibly effective project management software that takes care of these processes and activities for you and your team members. Another great example of a Linux project management software is OpenProject.

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TrustRadius Project Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

TrustRadius has already done the work in compiling a list of the best project management software , according to end-users; but not all of them require the same scale of management or growth-optimization tools. Best Project Management Software for Enterprises. #1 1 Workfront. 4 Smartsheet.

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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. Performance Evaluation of non?

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Stepping Into Project Management

JANUARY 13, 2014

She has experience with big four consulting organizations; was a managing director at a start-up international technology consulting organization; and currently is the owner of LAD Enterprises, a management consulting company. What has been the most challenging for you as a project manager?

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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Software development is going to adopt Scrum as its operating approach to developing software. New items are added to the backlog by the product owner as they are identified and placed in the backlog according to the product owner’s estimate of their priority. By Steve P. You get the word: “We are going AGILE!” Communicate.

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

It supports a detailed risk analysis, offering a range of probable outcomes instead of a single estimate. Run Simulations : Use Monte Carlo simulation software, in this case, Microsoft Excel, to simulate the model hundreds, if not thousands of times. Marketing Costs: Estimated to be between $20,000 and $40,000.

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