MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Having spent half my life in the commercial space and half in the government space, the questions are always there. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. Is it Fletcher?

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Herding Cats

MAY 19, 2017

As well we made estimates of what information will be produced after spending the customers (in most cases the government is the customer) money. So no more cockamamy examples of we can't possibly know. Quantitative Software Management (QSM). Software Benchmarking Organization. Software Engineering Institute (SEI).

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Teamweek

AUGUST 1, 2023

Data governance and compliance — Ensuring data is managed safely and effectively in a way that complies with global data protection regulations. There’s a fast-growing need for more data professionals in the workplace, including roles like Data Engineers, ML Engineers, Data Scientists and Data Analysts.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

This is an example of Stop Doing Stupid Things on Purpose. The classic example is in Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot where the investigators have pre-determined the cause of the occurrence. An example of a Root Cause Analysis is Benjamin Franklin's Why Analysis †. What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects?

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

For example, about which software to buy, which Features in the development backlog should be implemented next, what prices to charge for products and services. Software development is an exercise in microeconomics, since it deals with limited resources - time, cost, and what value is produced in exchange for the time and money.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 2, 2023

They include computer programmers, web developers, support specialists, IT technicians, network engineers, database administrators, software engineers, computer scientists, data scientists and IT security specialists. However, the organization isn’t the sole focus of IT governance. That’s only a few.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. Page 22 is an example of a cone that needs to be adhered to for the program to stay on schedule and cost. There is NO data needed to use the CoU.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. Matlab is one example. Related articles.

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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.”

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create risk to the success of the project. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis. Software development is not Macro, it's Micro. . IT Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If, for example, a project manager believes a member of his or her team is a fast and effective worker, each time that team member works fast and effectively or is told by a colleague about the work that has been done fast and effectively, the project manager will consider his or her belief to be well-founded. IT Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

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.

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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.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Most of these roles were based on aspects of IT operation, such as mainframe operation and maintenance, which later evolved into software development and commercialisation. As governments and organisations began to utilise IT to run their organisations, the concepts of ‘services’ began to evolve.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. This approach is the same for any other TPM - Risk, Weight, Throughput, and even Earned Value Management parameters. Risk management is how adults manage projects - Tim Lister. All risk comes from uncertainty. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

And choosing from the many different project management software types can be quite a challenge. To make it simpler for you, we’ve compiled this list of 21 different types of project management software and example tools for each type. Types of project management software based on the use case. Example: Toggl Plan.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For example, hiring managers admit that they hire the wrong person in 74% of cases. For instance, an individual having a software engineering degree might not be a great fit for a customer service role. If you fail to mention those soft skills in the job listing, you risk attracting a poor hire.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You start selling software licenses, you disrupt the whole way of selling. The whole value chain beyond just the engineering piece gets disrupted. It might be telling the client, how do you de-risk all that? You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You start selling software licenses, you disrupt the whole way of selling. The whole value chain beyond just the engineering piece gets disrupted. It might be telling the client, how do you de-risk all that? You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze.

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Technical Review Software Review Engineering Infrastructure 62

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.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We have gone an extra mile to illustrate various real life use cases and examples where waterfall is implemented, and how one can use nTask to further simplify that process – so on and so forth. Benington gave a presentation about the development of software for SAGE at Symposium on advanced programming methods for digital computers.

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Teamweek

JUNE 13, 2023

For example, knowledge of certain applications, processes, problem-solving abilities, and technical know-how. For example, a salesperson will have different motivations to an NGO project lead. For example, ethics will be an important quality for the top candidate of a security company, doctor, or legal professional.

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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

For example, the very first tile here, how the customer explained it. For example, status meetings one to two weeks as opposed to a month because if you wait a month in between status meetings, then there’s a whole lot of water it’s gone under that dam between the meetings. Notice the example again.

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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.

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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." . So how do we get ±10% accuracy?

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I've had a conversation of sorts with one of the "leaders" of the #NoEstimates movement who talked in circles when asked where is this method applicable outside your examples of a 5 week project and a cleanup of bugs on another project? . Nice Estimating Example. How to Estimate Software Development - Update.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For example, last year, they audited a number of books into the ACP certification reference and they removed also a number of books. Even the engineers, hardware engineer, software engineer, mechanical engineer. Now you’re thinking, how about mechanical engineer I just said. A number of tools.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

50], [397] DSM relates entities with each other in ways schedules cannot, for example, the tasks that constitute a complete program. Risk interaction within systems and subsystems, between functional and physical elements, can also be modeled with DSM. An example of a DSM Di-Graph is. Traditional risk models cannot model loops.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

50], [397] DSM relates entities with each other in ways schedules cannot, for example, the tasks that constitute a complete program. Risk interaction within systems and subsystems, between functional and physical elements, can also be modeled with DSM. An example of a DSM Di-Graph is. Traditional risk models cannot model loops.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 7, 2023

What’s the problem with recruiting software developers? The demand for software developers far outweighs the available supply, making it a real challenge to find the right candidates. To make matters worse, top-notch software engineers know their worth and often expect handsome salaries.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

He gave some examples about the automotive industry, heaven knows. The number of software engineers is expected to triple the number of mechanical engineers this year alone. All right, and then the engine behind a lot of that is the CDS, the common data service. Their centerpiece will be a lot around that.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves. People take a tool that can support Specification by Example and the first thing they do is try to write executable scripts. Are stakeholders involved in defining the examples? Creating or modifying database schemas.

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