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

MARCH 11, 2018

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." Macroeconomics is not. .

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Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

A recent lawsuit by Hertz Rental Car against Accenture has turned into a rallying cry by Agilest and No Estimates advocates. Of course, No Root Cause analysis has been performed by these advocates, but it makes good click bait for their followers. Were there: Measures of Effectiveness. Measures of Performance.

Software Review 41

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

It refers to any prediction or estimation made on a project’s status, including how it will unfold in the future. The shortest time estimated to complete a specific project task or activity is known as optimistic duration. Performance Measurement Baseline. GERT stands for ‘Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique’.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. It can be the needed performance of a measure - Effectiveness, Performance, Key Performance Parameter, or a Technical Performance Measures.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

Organizations of all sizes and industries are relying on technology to drive their operations and deliver services. These controls can include technical and administrative measures such as policies and procedures. ISO 27002, on the other hand, provides a code of practice for information security management.

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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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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

This includes organizational culture, industry dynamics, regulatory requirements, technological advancements, and market trends. With the rise of better technology, generative AI, for example, organizational objectives are put into the spotlight. Will they adapt to the technological changes or become obsolete?

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Epicflow Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

I was well aware that part of my code was complex and any addition would be risky. Practically it means that when a planned task is delayed due to uncertainty, the delay is not compensated by other tasks finishing early. It helps us begin somewhere rather than getting paralyzed by what we don’t know.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Activity Duration Estimates Review . is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. Analogous Estimating . Automated Code Coverage Report . Bottom-Up Estimating .

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When we hear of the difficulties of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty, especially about software features and capabilities, there are straightforward ways to solve this problem. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Mathematically, the value equals performance over cost plus time.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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 due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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). There can be cost and schedule performance measures as well.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

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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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Activity Duration Estimates Review . is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. Analogous Estimating . Automated Code Coverage Report . Bottom-Up Estimating .

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Software Review Project Life Cycle Estimate Technical Review 40

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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 due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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 due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I was well aware that part of my code was complex and any addition would be risky. Practically it means that when a planned task is delayed due to uncertainty, the delay is not compensated by other tasks finishing early. It helps us begin somewhere rather than getting paralyzed by what we don’t know.

2016 52

2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare 52

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each 'activity' is the smallest unit of work that can be performed within the scope of the project. Activity ID: An alphanumeric code used to identify an activity. Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Progress: The actual current progress of the project compared to the estimated project baselines.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Most IMPs in development programs include Events for major design reviews such as PDR or CDR. The IMP shows the Accomplishments and the measures of Accomplishments that are essential to get through a design review. If the organization is restructured or the WBS is changed, review the IMP and update it accordingly.

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Planning Software Review Governance Government 42

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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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Today’s PMI activity code, I’ll have up on the screen here in a minute. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations.

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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. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18. [2]

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Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

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. Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18. [2]

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