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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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 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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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

Scrum comes from a software development background, and the switch to kanban for these teams can be problematic. Just-in-time analysis in kanban creates shorter lead times, instead of batch-processing for iteration planning estimates, which is used in scrum. This identifies areas that can be improved and reduces bottlenecks.

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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

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. Here's an example of the probability distribution of a cost estimate for a project. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. Related articles.

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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. All major car manufacturers are headed towards electric and self-driving cars these days. Software developer.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

They allow project teams to identify critical paths, estimate project duration, and allocate resources efficiently. They can be created using software tools like Microsoft Project or online platforms like SmartDraw. By visualizing the entire manufacturing process, they were able to pinpoint specific areas for improvement.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Integrating Agile Software Development with Earned Value Management , College of Performance Management, IPM Workshop, 2015. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate.

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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. All major car manufacturers are headed towards electric and self-driving cars these days. Software developer.

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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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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A good chunk of the ERP market is dominated by buyers from manufacturing companies. Most of the end-users of this software choose a software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud ERP application over their on-premise counterparts. If you want to see more ERP providers with a list of software with end-user feedback h e re.

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A good chunk of the ERP market is dominated by buyers from manufacturing companies. . Most of the end-users of this software choose a software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud ERP application over their on-premise counterparts. If you want to see more ERP providers with a list of software with end-user feedback h e re.

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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 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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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2017

For software development, there are many decisions to be made. What Feature to develop next ? Do we have enough time and money to develop the needed Features before the business needs to put those Features to work earned back their investment? Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain.

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Herding Cats

MAY 29, 2018

In the presence of irreducible and reducible uncertainties of nature, as well as the projects we work, calculating the mathematical outcomes from our decision means making estimates. Software is only valuable when it produces information that enables people and systems to meet their objectives more effectively. Related articles.

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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. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing.

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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

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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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Asking to be trusted , asking to be allowed to self-organize and spend other people's money in the development of value. Many times asking to not be asked for an estimate, or to show progress to plan, or to not be held to a deadline, or to report on when they'll be done. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain.

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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. Project Estimation. How do you come up with project estimation in Agile world?

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The conclusion was reached by the research team that an incremental approach to software development works better. The team creates a working prototype quickly and then incrementally improves the software both in terms of functionality and quality. Project Estimation. No wonder so many projects were failing.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 11, 2018

This is the basis of all Closed Loop Control systems, from the speed control of the car, to the flight controls for an aircraft, to the temperature controls for your home, and of course the business controls for software development. Right and wrong cease to be useful concepts when you’re talking about software development.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In discussing the delivery capacity of a software development team, we can say “velocity” and everyone knows we mean the amount of work the team can complete, on average, in a given time interval , and we don’t mean, literally, va=v+v02. “Velocity” in software development doesn’t mean velocity.

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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 ”.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 18, 2018

This analog signal is the underlying dynamics of the software development process. The digital signal is the information needed to determine the physical percent complete of the dynamic software development process. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. The Punch Line. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. Some feel that the cone does not provide any value for the work they do and does not match the reducing uncertainty in their estimates. This letter states.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

"Managing the Development of Large-Scale Software: Concepts and Techniques," Winston Royce, Proceedings, Wescon, August 1970. Iterative Enhancement: A Practical Technique for Software Development," Victor Basil and Albert Turner, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 4, December 1975. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 3, 2018

Our project management, software development world the more so. . The classic that happened yesterday was yet another misuse of the Standish Report, long debunked, to claim estimates p[rovide no value, in fact, estimates are the source of the reason why projects fail. Related articles. IT Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 10, 2017

I've been working in the probabilistic estimating business for a decade or two. . As well - of course - is the nonsense that Forecasts are not estimates, popularized by #NoEstimates advocates. As well - of course - is the nonsense that Forecasts are not estimates, popularized by #NoEstimates advocates. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

JULY 5, 2016

This quote is misused to suggest that estimating can't be done. He's speaking about Chess playing program - and doing so from the perspective of 1978 style software development. Agile Software Development in the DOD. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 21, 2018

In the absence of omniscience, efforts to predict to any useful degree of certainty what events will have an effect the work and whether these uncertainties will occur require careful consideration and of course estimates needed to assess the presence and impacts of Epistemic and Aleatory uncertainties that create risk. . Related articles.

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Herding Cats

MAY 2, 2018

There is NO Principle of Managerial Finance, Probabilistic Decision Making, or Microeconomics of Software development, in the presence of uncertainties found on all projects, by which a credible decision can be made without estimating the impact of that decision on the probability of project success. Related articles.

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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. Are You Ready to Develop a Perfect Agile Plan? Agile project planning is a method to estimate work through self-contained work units called sprints and iterations.

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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. Productivity rates flattened in the early 2000s and have remained relatively constant.

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