Herding Cats

JULY 17, 2017

I work in a domain where estimates are made every single week. Estimate to Complete (ETC), Estimate at Completion (EAC), Estimated Completion Date (ECD) are the life blood of our software intensive system of systems programs. This, of course, is nonsense, since estimates are about the past, present, and future.

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Digite

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

AI is changing the world and the lives of people and is becoming the engine of growth of economies and organizations. In the last 10 years, advances in both computing technology and software, and access to large amounts of data, (thanks to the Internet and SaaS/ Cloud-based systems) are enabling the resurgence of AI.

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Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team 2020 2025 141

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 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. Not a group that likes to get questions, by the way.

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Estimate Risk Management Finance Software Developers 39

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things.

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?

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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

So even if you’re watching the recording of this or today, I encourage people to reach out to me anytime with questions, what’s going on and to find out a little bit more about it. Kyle: Hello everyone and welcome to today’s MPUG training series, part one, Understanding and Incorporating Agile Project Management.

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Agile Technical Review Lean Underperforming Technical Team 40

MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As always let me actually share my screen, it makes more sense if you can actually see what we have going up on both the live demo today and also some of the details that we go through here. Tim Runcie: Session two, we’re going to zero in on what we call features and capabilities of project.

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Agile Technical Review Software Review Engineering 40

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 24, 2019

This is session number three, where we really kind of take our final kind of what I’ll refer to as an overall summary of the activities that we’ve done, and we bring that together. My name is Kyle, and I’ll be the moderator today. And this session is eligible for one PMI, PDU in the Technical category. There we go.

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Agile Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 40

Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

What are “all the things,” by the way? An unattended software delivery pipeline frees technical staff to spend more time on value-add activities rather than tediously performing repetitive tasks by hand, such as. But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves.

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