MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

According to International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates , less than 10% of that data is analyzed. At Envorso, we are incubating a software product called Empwr.ai that is designed to transform unstructured data into usable structured data to help teams optimize their operations, information sharing, and communication.

Generative AI 52

Generative AI 2024 Artificial Inteligence Software Review 52

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation , Steve McConnell , Construx, 2002. Steve McConnell.

2012 48

2012 2007 2011 2010 48

Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

They’re often expected to help establish software engineering tools, standards, and processes like code reviews and testing strategies. Be a conduit for information. Estimate the time, effort, and resources for an entire project. Help devs come up with effort estimates and feed those back into the overall estimation.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 78

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.

Estimate 28

Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Software Governance 28

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. Our perception of this world - the data and information we receive about these behaviors. All estimates have precision and accuracy.

2003 46

2003 2014 2015 2011 46

Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

Agile 97

Agile Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review 97

Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

This is the foundation for estimates. Estimates with accuracy and precision values needed to make credible decisions. These estimates are critical to both developers and customers. These estimates are used for generating requests for proposals, contract negotiations, scheduling, monitoring, and control. No Estimates?

Software Developers 40

Software Developers Software Development Software Software Engineering 40

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. reducible and irreducible ?

Risk Management 38

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

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. When System One works it is because of memories and past experiences inform the decision. Acosta, and Angel Garcia Crespo, Behavior and Information Technology, 32(11):1?9,

Transportation 39

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

Risk Management 35

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Herding Cats

MAY 19, 2017

It is popular to claim we've never done this before, so how can we possibly estimate the cost and schedule. If it truly hasn't been done before, then the software project is likely to be an inventing new physics project. In that world, we still made estimates of the cost to design, build, and operate the experiment.

Estimate 36

Estimate Governance Government Software Engineering 36

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. Related articles.

Software Developers 39

Software Developers Software Development Engineering Software 39

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. "

2008 32

2008 2002 Estimate Software Engineering 32

Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

This was my starting point for becoming a software engineer rather than a physicist, by the way. . You're bad at estimating - WHY? Our management misuses information we provide them. Did you provide the wrong information? Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Stop talking and go find out why.

Estimate 37

Estimate Engineering Software Engineering Manufacturing 37

Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

In the late twenty century many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all. In 2001 a group of software engineers and scientists in IT industry got together and wrote Agile Manifesto. Project Estimation.

Agile 100

Agile Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review 100

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. When System One works it is because of memories and past experiences inform the decision. Acosta, and Angel Garcia Crespo, Behavior and Information Technology, 32(11):1?9,

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. The specifics of the Technical Performance Measures applied to inform Physical Percent Complete and the Cone of Uncertainty around the TPM are shown here. This usually results in a project's actual costs far outrunning the optimistic estimates and creating a large overrun.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis. This is the foundation for estimates. Related articles.

Process 45

Process Estimate Software Developers Software Development 45

Herding Cats

MARCH 9, 2017

DeMacro made this post, which has been picked up by the agile community to mean estimating is a waste. . Implying there is no need to measure the project performance and by implication no need to estimate. If they are not an external investor, the internal CFO needs that same information. All estimates are evil.

Software Engineering 31

Software Engineering Estimate 2015 Engineering 31

Workzone

JANUARY 18, 2023

But seriously, they are a fast way to grasp information and for top-level reminders. It’s specifically built for technicl creatives—such as game developers, UX designers and software engineers. Zenkit also gives you member-level, swimlanes for your Kanban board and time estimates for tasks or Sprints.

2023 52

2023 Software Review Lean Estimate 52

Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Actually caring about the needs of your sponsor,” says Alberto Pérez Veiga , an IT Engineer at NATO Communications and Information Agency. I saw many lists of thousands of improperly documented LL which are not manageable and thus not useful because of the quality and level of details of the information provided.”.

Underperforming Technical Team 75

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 2002 Software Review 75

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. It’s how they’re done and what they do with the information, we as project managers, program managers, schedulers provide to our team. Is it Fletcher?

Performance Measurement 59

Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Engineering 59

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's start with a clear and concise description of the problem of successfully managing projects in the presence of uncertainty: Accurate software cost and schedule estimations are essential for non-trivial software projects. As a software project progresses, more information about the project is known.

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Wrike

JUNE 3, 2015

Everyone knows how vital it is to proactively share information and knowledge during a project if you want to succeed; yet poor communication continues to trip teams up time and time again. Workers have to be paid for more time, so your estimated budget goes over. ” —Trevor Ewen, Senior Software Engineer, Neosavvy.

Technical Review 59

Technical Review Software Review Software Engineering Risk Management 59

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 18, 2016

To assess the impact of that risk, devise the protective actions needed to address the resulting risk - ESTIMATING is required. Without estimates the Aleatory and Epistemic uncertanty that exists on All project will go unaddressed and the probablity of project sucess will be significanlty reduced, perhaps to Zero. . Related articles.

Estimate 28

Estimate Software Engineering Software Developers Software Development 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

This is used in support of the fallacy that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of uncertanty. This community of program controls, cost analyst, earned value managers and program managers is accountable for providing information to decision makers on enterprise and complex projects and programs.

Software Engineering 28

Software Engineering Performance Measurement Finance Manufacturing 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

Of late, Cone of Uncertainty has become the mantra of No Estimates advocates claiming that data is needed BEFORE the Cone is of any use. This fallacy comes from a collection of data that did not follow the needed and planned reduction of uncertainty for the cost estimates of a set of software development projects. .

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute (in this post, cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Economics of Software Development. Estimating Probabilistic Outcomes?

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2023

By spotlighting rework zones and wait intervals, it equips teams to make informed decisions, refining their workflow and minimising wastage. Additionally, if you're intrigued by the application of VSM in software engineering, check out the article " The value of value stream mapping in software engineering ".

SCRUM 151

SCRUM Software Review Technical Review Software Engineering 151

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Perhaps you’ve read many blog posts about how horrible SAFe is, or how useless estimation is, or what the optimal size of a team is. What if you recommend teams to stop estimation altogether and cause financial damage compared to when you wouldn’t have recommended this? You may have the practical experience to support your beliefs.

Agile 182

Agile Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 182

PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

At least you need to define the key information that it has. In this case, project planning boils down to identifying project scope, estimates of time and costs, and setting milestones. In the end, you need requirements that software engineers will understand. You do need to focus the efforts of your team. Mind Mapping.

Software Developers 67

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 67

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Why our brain is not built for software engineering. Knowledge work’ refers to tasks that take place mostly in our minds, like predicting scope, setting up plannings, considering consequences of changes to complex systems, working out test cases and estimating complexity. This will affect all estimates and predictions.

2002 191

2002 SCRUM 2007 2003 191

Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It requires you to properly scope projects , break them down into tasks , estimate time and effort , and know which teammates are best suited and available for each one. You need constant feedback from the people doing the work to understand whether you’re taking on too much work, improperly estimating tasks, or pushing the scope.

Underperforming Technical Team 97

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Estimate Software Engineering 97