Leading Agile

APRIL 29, 2021

In that discussion, I covered a range of topics – Building a Business Case and the Key Financial Metrics that should be provided in your Business Case, Understanding your Company’s Software Development Costs, the Importance of Benchmarking, Importance of keeping your Asset Management current, and Capitalizing and Amortizing Software Costs.

Finance 84

Finance Agile Performance Measurement Estimate 84

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Making changes late in the development cycle has significant impacts on the verification and validation of the system no matter the software development method. . A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management. Programmatic ? and Dutta, P.,

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

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.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Planning and Scheduling (#PS). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Integrated Master Plan and Master Schedule (#IMPIMS). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. probably not.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For software, this can be value produced (assuming we have a unit of measure for that value in the for of effectiveness, performance, key performance parameters, or technical performance measures ). The response to change rate ‒ how fast can you make corrective actions to the system to keep it on plan.

Closing 28

Closing Estimate Controlling Process 28

ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

An assumption in project management refers to assuming about possible factors or situations that may occur in the project planning process that it may actually happen. It refers to any prediction or estimation made on a project’s status, including how it will unfold in the future. Performance Measurement Baseline.

Underperforming Technical Team 111

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Risk Management Defining 111

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. This physical percent complete is measured as compliance with the Technical Performance Measures of the outcomes of the work efforts, that consume the budget for that work.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

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). Inadequate assessment of risks and unmitigated exposure to these risks with proper handling plans. This is due to many reasons.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2017

The common definition of the Definition of Done in agile software development is (mostly from the Scrum Alliance and other official Scrum sites): A simple list of activities (coding, comments, unit testing, integration, release notes, design documents, etc.) Does the code produce the Planned Capabilities that were paid for?

Software Review 28

Software Review Technical Review Performance Measurement Estimate 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

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). Inadequate assessment of risks and unmitigated exposure to these risks with proper handling plans. This is due to many reasons.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

The paper on the Cone of Uncertainty is used by many in the No Estimates community as an example of why estimates are of little use. In this paper, there is data that does not follow the Cone of Uncertainty, in that the uncertainty of the estimates does not reduce as the project proceeds. Then there is some analysis.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

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). Inadequate assessment of risks and unmitigated exposure to these risks with proper handling plans. This is due to many reasons.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

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). Here's some examples of Planned variances and managing of the actual variances to make sure the project stays on plan.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 14, 2016

Many blogs, tweets, books are spent of speaking about Value as the priority in agile software development. We produce Value at the end of every Sprint Value is the most important aspect of Scrum based development. MOP's are attributes that assure the systems to capability to perform. We focus on Value over cost.

Performance Measurement 49

Performance Measurement Engineering Lean Software Developers 49

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

Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Rarely the case in software development, where Little's Law is misused often. The OP claimed Goodhart's Law was the source of most of the problems with software development. What this says is again when the measure becomes the target, that target impacts the measure, changing the target. .

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Estimate Software Developers Software Development 28

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,

Transportation 39

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. Abstracted from [3].

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

What does Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? What is the Plan and the Schedule for the work in that Plan to reach Done for the needed cost on the needed date to deliver the needed Value to those paying for the work? What are the units of measures of progress to plan for each deliverable?

Process 53

Process Engineering Software Developers Software Development 53

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Modeling is at the heart of Program Planning and Controls. It's the Planning and Controls processes working together with the Technical Development processes that provide the ability to forecast what should happen in the future if we keep going like we are going now using a Model of the possible future outcomes.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

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,

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. Then planning.

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

Reducing Estimation Uncertainty with Continuous Assessment: Tracking the 'Cone of Uncertainty’” Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn, Chatchai Sinthop and Barry Boehm, Center for Systems and Software Engineering University of Southern California , Los Angeles, CA 90089, ASE’10 , September 20–24, 2010, Antwerp, Belgium, 2010. 37–48, 2007.

2012 29

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2016

INCOSE has a Systems Engineering Journal as well with papers speaking to software development complexities . Guide the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge - speaks to topics like Product road maps are essential for software intensive systems that have many releases of software and capability upgrades.

Engineering 28

Engineering Software Performance Measurement Finance 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

AHP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Saaty. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Using this method, the performance, cost, time, and risks of alternatives can be articulated as ratios that can then be compared with one another. I came to AHP through a seminar by Dr. James T. And of course.

Technical Review 47

Technical Review 2010 2014 Software Developers 47

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

66% said they choose a project management software based on level of support available. [10]. 68% use the project plan documentation. 53% use project management software. Estimated Project-Oriented Job Openings 2010-2020: . Unrealistic schedule/reactive planning. Ease of use. [10]. 63% use spreadsheets.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

MAY 12, 2018

This quote is typically the basis of proposing agile software development over traditional software development. In the product development world, the funding, recording of revenue, management of staffing at the financial level is managed as a Project. It’s impossible to gather all requirements in beginning 4.

Agile 44

Agile Finance Software Developers Software Development 44

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

The Design Structure Matrix (DSM) method, was introduced by Steward in for task-based system modeling and initially used for planning issues. In the presence of uncertainty, estimates is needed to make decisions. There is no way out of this for any non-trivial software development project.

Underperforming Technical Team 32

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

The Design Structure Matrix (DSM) method, was introduced by Steward in for task-based system modeling and initially used for planning issues. In the presence of uncertainty, estimates is needed to make decisions. There is no way out of this for any non-trivial software development project.

Underperforming Technical Team 28

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 28