Herding Cats

MARCH 9, 2017

My early metrics book, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation (Prentice Hall/Yourdon Press, 1982) , played a role in the way many budding software engineers quantified work and planned their projects. […] The book’s most quoted line is its first sentence: “You can’t control what you can’t measure.”

Software Engineering 31

Software Engineering Estimate 2015 Engineering 31

MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day.

Performance Measurement 52

Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Governance 52

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

We can estimate the total cost, total duration, and the probability that all the Features will be delivered on the program we are working for the US Government. Or ANY software project for that matter. In a forecast, the assumptions represent expectations of actual future events. IT Risk Management. Sales forecasts.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Now that we've established with the above sources there are conjectures without basis, nonsense statements like estimates are the smell of dysfunction without ever stating what the dysfunction is or what could possibly be causing the dysfunction, here's the place to start for serious estimating for software intensive systems.

Estimate 28

Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Software Governance 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

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." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

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." . Let's start with the obvious.

Estimate 37

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

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." . So how do we get ±10% accuracy?

Estimate 42

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

Teamweek

AUGUST 7, 2023

To find talented developers , recruiters often turn to niche job boards, developer communities, social media platforms, tech events, and employee referrals. What’s the problem with recruiting software developers? To make matters worse, top-notch software engineers know their worth and often expect handsome salaries.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review CTO Hire Software Review Software Engineering 52

MPUG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Kyle’s already done a great introduction for Leo and myself, Larry here, so we’re going to keep moving and get right into what happened at Inspire and what we plucked out of there, specific to the new Project services being referred to as the … This is the largest event for Microsoft partners. It is the common data model.

2019 40

2019 Technical Review Software Review Engineering 40

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

“Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. COSMIC Software Estimation Approach,” Alain Abran, ICEAA Workshop, Portland Oregon, June 6?9, Markovian Stochastic Event Graphs,” Pierre H. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

Estimate 40

Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Even the engineers, hardware engineer, software engineer, mechanical engineer. Now you’re thinking, how about mechanical engineer I just said. Agile has been- they are in software industry primarily. Then you have product quality, then risk management, then value based prioritization.

PMI 52

PMI Certification Software Review Technical Review 52

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

That idea of big upfront design and late testing kind of got codified into a lot of our process governance around there. So I guess what I was just saying is that we’re making it worse a little bit by codifying some of those practices into our governance models. Chris Beale Yeah, absolutely.

Software 69

Software Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 69