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. If you have no uncertainty, then estimates provide no value. Be an adult, manage other people's money using a risk management process. This is how business works.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2023

VSM acts as a catalyst for continuous refinement, offering insights into existing processes. In the realm of software development, principles of DevOps and a commitment to technical excellence can further enhance the process. It enables teams to grasp the entire process, spotlighting bottlenecks and inefficiencies.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

It’s a visual system for managing work as it goes through a production cycle or process. The hybrid combines the best features of both and is well-suited for product and development projects. This gives teams the power to continually optimize its processes. Then there’s kanban. It’s a cost-effective way to gain productivity.

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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

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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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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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Agile is a way of working that comes from software development. While the roots of incremental development methods of working stem back to the 1950s and into the 1970s, it wasn’t until 2001 that a group of software developers published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

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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 30, 2017

All software development projects operate in the presence of uncertainty. The design and development of software must rely on estimation, forecasts, and predictions based on an idealized understanding of what is an unknown (but knowable) understanding of reality. This uncertainty is unavoidable.

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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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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

The conference committee encourages everyone to prepare papers on one of the relevant topics, among which there are: Managing people, Managing projects, Software management activities, Project execution and monitoring, Empirical estimation technique, Critical path analysis. Pricing: starting from 100 EUR.

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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

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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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

But with changes come challenges: as the smart technology becomes mainstream, it becomes clear that it will reduce the number of workers required for certain tasks both in manufacturing and in other sectors of human employment. Theory of mind is still in the process of active development. Assembly and factory worker.

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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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Scoro

JULY 13, 2021

Each task is depicted as a horizontal bar (usually color-coded), the length of which is the task’s estimated duration. The Gantt chart has retained all of its basic components since its introduction to manufacturing in the 1890s. The first real-time Gantt chart from Scoro Software. Software development.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2018

There's a fallacy used by some in the software development business, that estimates are not needed to make decisions in the presence of uncertainty. And of course to manage in the presence of uncertainty and the resulting risks we need specific processes and practices based on principles. . Related articles.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Project Information Repository (PIREP) is a fundamental tool for managing and administering software development projects. Section 1 – Project Control and Coordination Process. A core component of the process includes a weekly or bi-weekly internal project management control meeting. Dr. Robert Schuller.

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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. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008.

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) software is like a virtual task master for any complex business needs. With an ERP you can maximize daily business processes like optimizing workflow with project management tools or expediting the procurement process. How does ERP Software Selection Work?

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) software is like a virtual task master for any complex business needs. With an ERP you can maximize daily business processes like optimizing workflow with project management tools or expediting the procurement process. . How does ERP Software Selection Work?

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

But with changes come challenges: as the smart technology becomes mainstream, it becomes clear that it will reduce the number of workers required for certain tasks both in manufacturing and in other sectors of human employment. Theory of mind is still in the process of active development. Assembly and factory worker.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We have gone an extra mile to illustrate various real life use cases and examples where waterfall is implemented, and how one can use nTask to further simplify that process – so on and so forth. It follows a sequential, linear process which is why it is often described as a “linear-sequential life cycle model”.

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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 ? As more details get developed, the Cone converges to the actual value. Steve McConnell.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

There are many who have the misconception that Agile is just for software development. It has been and is being used for manufacturing, engineering, construction, testing, and many other project processes that require iterations or iterative working sessions leading to a final result. Understanding Agile.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Estimation is pretentious rationalism, where rationalism does not serve us well (extremistan)(sic) Take only risks you can survive. These estimates can not the ultimate truth since the underlying processes that create the uncertainties (aleatory and epistemic) are stochastic in nature - stationary or nonstationary. The Fallacy.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 2, 2018

You don't estimate it. There are other means, but for software estimating the mean is the correct term. . All the variables in software development are random variables. Monte Carlo Simulation and Method of Moments are processes used to model the cost, schedule, and technical performance of projects.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 12, 2021

They work closely with portfolio office managers to oversee all processes are in line with the objectives and all tasks are accomplished according to the requirements. . This type of knowledge covers the understanding of the processes, job duties of all employees, rules, market trends that are peculiar for this professional environment. .

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ProProfs Project Management

AUGUST 7, 2020

Nokia is a vivid example in this context, as this mobile manufacturing company had refused to accept Android OS and decided to swim upstream. Step 6: Keep a Window for Reviewing Process . Are You Ready to Develop a Perfect Agile Plan? Streamlined development processes. Step 7: Perform Retrospective.

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used in the software development and IT industry for the past sixteen years, but recently it has gained wide acceptance by many number of industries and organizations. But the tide is turning and Agile is gaining wide acceptance as a valid process for many projects.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Acceptance Test: A process through which a project's end users run through the project to identify any potential issues before it can be formally accepted. Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

But the tide is turning and Agile project management is gaining wide acceptance as a valid process for most projects. 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. Project Estimation.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 20, 2017

For software development systems like Kanban, which is production line-centric, Litle's Law tells us. λ = average production rate of complete software components. λ = average production rate of complete software components. There are two fundamental assumptions for Little's Law to work in the software development domain".

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ProProfs Project Management

DECEMBER 5, 2019

There are many approaches to project management, especially in software development. Among these, waterfall project management is one of the more interesting ones, seeing as it stems from the old days of the construction and manufacturing industries; it was not specifically designed with software development in mind.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The #NoEstimates Manifesto - Actually restates Best Practice for estimating and making decisions with those estimates. . Deterministic estimates are point estimates and Point estimates without a Variance are of little value in the presence of uncertainty. Delivery Time over Development Time.

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International Institute for Learning

JUNE 22, 2022

Despite our rudimentary technology, we were (in my estimate) at least as productive and less stressed out than most people are today. Kanban is a flow-based management practice initially developed to reduce inventory and manufacturing costs. Prolonging the process does not yield better outcomes; it simply delays the conclusion.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 18, 2018

The sampling rate of a dynamic process under control. Or the sampling rate of a signal from a process you want to model. This analog signal is the underlying dynamics of the software development process. As the work progresses the TO DO value goes from the original estimate to the new estimate to complete.

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