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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Teamweek

OCTOBER 20, 2022

After all, Agile projects deliver proven value in software projects: Higher profit More meaningful projects and client relationships Greater productivity Clearer communication. Yet, there’s no cookie-cutter way to be an Agile agency; people even refer to it as a “mindset” rather than a “methodology”. Enhances creativity.

Agile 52

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

But when some statement is made about risk, estimating, performance modeling, or the like - always ask for references. No References? Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Management for Engineers and Scientist 2nd Edition , Ernest J. Agile Risk Management and Scrum , Alan Moran, Institute for Agile Risk Management, 2014.

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." .

Estimate 37

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . References.

Estimate 42

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The conjecture that we can make decisions in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impacts of those decisions is without any principles that can be tested beyond personal anecdotes of I know people who spend other peoples money without providing estimates. We need to learn how to predict with credible methods.

Estimate 39

Estimate Risk Management Finance Software Developers 39

MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

So you have master in Scrum, or master in Kanban or like a professional in Lean. For example, last year, they audited a number of books into the ACP certification reference and they removed also a number of books. Then of course, Scrum Masters, Kanban Flow Masters They can also go for this certification.

PMI 52

PMI Certification Software Review Technical Review 52

PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

The main phase of a project is implemented with Scrum Framework. So, you will need to follow either an utterly custom approach or a variation of Scrum or Kanban. In this case, project planning boils down to identifying project scope, estimates of time and costs, and setting milestones. SDLC doesn’t equal Scrum or Kanban.

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