Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

Practices and Process are Fads. A Process is a series of steps and decisions involved in the way work is completed. Here's my version in the form of questions that when answered form the foundation for the Practices and Processes. What does Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers?

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

You winged the entire project execution process, and now the theory of it all is taking a toll on you. . 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. Performance Measurement Baseline. Deliverable.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It is applied through the application of systems engineering processes within a managed lifecycle working with a number of other management, engineering, and specialist disciplines. While traditionally applied to product development, systems engineering can also be applied to service and enterprise systems.

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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.

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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.) Do they characterize the major drivers of performance?

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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." The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . Let's look at what an estimate is.

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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. TPMs assess the design process.

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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). This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM).

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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

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). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty. This is due to many reasons.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 19, 2018

Have sufficient Technical Performance Measures margin to cover the required performance measure of the Capabilities. You can't make decision in the presence of uncertainty without making estimates about those decisions. Manage risk, estimate, manage other people's money like an adult. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

2nd Law of Thermodynamics states that the total entropy of an isolated system always increases over time, or remains constant in ideal cases where the system is in a steady state or undergoing a reversible process. The increase in entropy accounts for the irreversibility of natural processes, and the asymmetry between future and past.

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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). This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM).

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 27, 2016

There are two kinds of uncertainty on all projects, no matter the domain, including software development projects. Decision-making is the process of choosing among alternatives. The process of making a decision involves three elements: values, alternatives, and facts (Buede, 2009). [1].

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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). This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM). Related articles.

Technical Review 28

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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. Because of that, we don't separate the thinking processes into a dual-system. This means putting a formal process in place for making that decision. System One - automatic.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This method is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Saaty. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. This decision model for software development projects addressed: performance, cost, time, and risk. The Wrap Up . And of course.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

Specific actions to reduce the Episuncertaintiesnaties and Margin to handle the Aleatory uncertainies are part of any good project management process. . The Cone of Uncertainty,” Stephen Gryphon, Phillippe Kruchten, and Steve McConnell, Letters, IEEE Software , 23 (5) 2006, pp 8?10. 37–48, 2007.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

The uncertainty is always there, it doesn't go away with specific actions in specific domains, or with the use of any tools, processes, or practices. This includes the Measures of Effectiveness (MoE), Measures of Performance (MoP), Key Performance Parameters (KPP), and Technical Performance Measures (TPM) of the deliverables.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

PP&C lives in the domain of Project Management and Controls, which is a Technical Management Processes of ISO 15288. In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes. For approaches that have been implemented on existing systems, obtaining such understanding may require measurement and analysis.

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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. Because of that, we don't separate the thinking processes into a dual-system. This means putting a formal process in place for making that decision. System One - automatic.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2016

This is a good start, but it needs to produce actionable outcomes , not just principles, but practices and processes. Much of Ackoff's principles are the basis of practices and processes that assure this happens. . I come to this systems domain from the Software Intensive System of Systems paradigm. Estimating Guidance.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Programmatic ?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Management Processes. Planning and Scheduling (#PS). Agile Project Management (#APM).

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Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. These are all focused on developing software, delivering that software to those paying the developers. Anything less results in systems not worth having or fail to function or perform. [3],

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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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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.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

All making things smaller dos is show that you're late, over budget, and what you're building (Technical Performance Measures) doesn't work faster. So here are some books, handbooks, and guides that sit on my shelf that are used pretty much all the time on the Software Intensive System of Systems we work on. No References?

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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.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Having a knowledge transfer process in place boosts the chance of project success by over 20%. [6]. More than 90% of organizations perform some type of project postmortem or closeout retrospective. [9]. Most Popular Agile Tools and Processes: Scrum – 43%. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. 3% use PRINCE2. [4].

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. That means the system architecture, the process flow, the data flow architecture components all how NO dependencies on other. a digraph like this, that model sequential, parallel and coupled process. Actual software process flows contain loops.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. That means the system architecture, the process flow, the data flow architecture components all how NO dependencies on other. a digraph like this, that model sequential, parallel and coupled process. Actual software process flows contain loops.

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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. Jeff: Here are our process groups.

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