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

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Product Development (#ProdDev). Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things.

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

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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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

So even if you’re watching the recording of this or today, I encourage people to reach out to me anytime with questions, what’s going on and to find out a little bit more about it. Kyle: Hello everyone and welcome to today’s MPUG training series, part one, Understanding and Incorporating Agile Project Management.

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Agile Technical Review Lean Underperforming Technical Team 40

Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

What are “all the things,” by the way? An unattended software delivery pipeline frees technical staff to spend more time on value-add activities rather than tediously performing repetitive tasks by hand, such as. Automate what? First, there’s a tool-centric mentality about software-related work.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Development Team Review 55