Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. reducible and irreducible ? De Meyer, C.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2018

And it has huge implications for people managing projects that store, capture or process personal data. But beyond the setting up of GDPR principles in your business, what does GDPR look like for project management? In this article I’ll look at 10 questions managers should ask themselves before starting a new project.

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NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The community largely accepted Agile and Waterfall as mutually exclusive project management paradigms. Critics of Waterfall believed that the world for a phase-gated and static project management style no longer exists. So, what is the Waterfall methodology for project management?

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

As products become more complex, technical project managers have quickly become the holy grail for growing businesses. Technical project managers (TPM) bridge the gap between understanding what’s technically possible in a project and managing the resources, timelines, and expectations to get it done. First, learn the basics.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Eugene Bounds and Steve Ackert Recently, the buzzword artificial intelligence (AI) has been on everyone’s minds, not just in the tech world but across many industries, including project management. For over a quarter of a century, the Standish Group has tracked, reported, and improved software-intensive project success rates. [1]

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Proofhub

MARCH 24, 2023

If you’re an employer, manager, or another leadership figure for employees in your organization, it’s important to take active steps toward creating a culture of respect and appreciation. Stay connected with your team & better manage your work with these 43 best productivity tools. Find the best one for you!”

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Do you know your organization’s project management maturity level? If not, it’s high time to change the situation: project management maturity has a direct impact on a company’s competitiveness and business success. . What is project management maturity exactly, and how to define its level?

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

Ready to transform your approach to project management and software development? Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. It helps in managing workload effectively and ensures quality output.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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Teamweek

APRIL 1, 2021

Effectively manage your team’s workload. Many software tools help you capture, prioritize, and organize your work — from simple to-do lists to visual Kanban boards. It could be a notebook, a to-do list app on your phone, or the task backlog in your project management tool. Categorize Tasks Using The 4Ds Of Time Management.

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Planio

OCTOBER 14, 2020

That’s why we spoke to managers and engineering leads at some of the world’s top remote startups to understand how to bring in the best people for your team. Whether you’re a seasoned manager who’s built teams at scale or a brand new founder looking to build up your first remote team, hiring can be a slog.

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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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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Andrew Middleton , the Managing Director at AMWireless, tells us how to make sure you aren’t fighting a losing battle by trying to manage the unmanageable: “All project stakeholders have got to be on board right from the start and it’s up to the PM to make sure it stays that way! Perform Risk Management.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

We are a project management consulting company in the Baltimore Washington area. Background myself, I’ve been doing project program, PMO management for going on, I guess, 30 years now. By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. And in project management terminology, we must set the baseline.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. This would be like saying, risk management is a waste , control system engineering is a waste, thermal analysis of the computer system is a waste, assessment of the reliability, repairability, survivability - all the. illities are a waste.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 1, 2023

Some of the most important data analyst skills include data analysis, statistical programming languages, data management, data visualization, good communication skills, machine learning and even Excel skills. The real difference is that a data scientist is usually more experienced and works with more complex data processes.

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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 †. A Cause is an answer to a why question.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 23, 2017

In the estimating business, like many things in project management, there is confusion about principles, practices, and processes. Here's an example used by the #NoEstimates advocates. Software Engineering Metrics and Models. And download the paper that followed " A Software Metrics Survey. Dunsmore and V.Y.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. In our domain of engineered systems there is a broad range of problems, complex issues, approaches to solving problems.

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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). A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

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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). The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

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Herding Cats

MAY 19, 2017

So no more cockamamy examples of we can't possibly know. Quantitative Software Management (QSM). Q/P Management Group. Software Benchmarking Organization. Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Software Improvement Group (SIG). 2] Avoid Software Project Horror Stories. [3] Quantimetrics.

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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). The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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 done by active risk management, through probabalistic decision-making.

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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. Here's an example of a tool we use, Palisade software's Crystal Ball.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's say you're the project or program manager of a large complex system. We cannot escape these two uncertainties - reducible and irreducible - and must learn how to manage in the presence of these uncertainties. Maybe an aircraft, or a building, or an ERP system deployment. Abstracted from [3].

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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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Leading Agile

MAY 25, 2023

And for you hardcore engineers out there, not really so much talking to you. What I’m really talking about is to your project managers, to your team leads, to your executive teams around what kind of conditions they need to create for you so that we can do Agile and Agile engineering practices really well. Did it work?

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

With today’s speed of work and innovation, it’s imperative that your business finds an ideal work management software to streamline projects , optimize workflows , automate tasks , and enhance team productivity without causing burnout. . Wrike was launched in 2006 by founder and software developer Andrew Filev.

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Paymo App

JANUARY 25, 2018

By precisely measuring employee time records, project managers will be able to make better time estimates for future projects. Previous task delays and bottlenecks are common errors that can help you anticipate project change and manage risks effectively if you avoid them in the following projects. Examples of time trackers.

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PM Basics

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Do you want to see a project budget example? Projeudget Template includes planned expenses for all project activities, including wages, materials, fees, risk reserves, etc. We’ll review the project budget example in just a minute. Do you need a senior Android software engineer? Project Budget Example.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Here's an extract from "Chapter 8: Human Behavior and Complexity," Terry Cooke-Davies, in Aspects of Complexity: Managing Projects in a Complex World. This is a cautionary tale for those listening to the #NoEstimates advocates, where anecdotes of bad management are used in an attempt to replace established principles of business management.

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Teamweek

APRIL 26, 2023

In this article, we look at the real potential of this AI innovation for talent acquisition by analysing what it is and diving into 8 ChatGPT in recruitment examples. Experiment with your talent acquisition content to create a compelling summary, for example, and connect with more job seekers in your job market.

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. But there is a real problem here: With so many different frameworks and project management approaches, life cycles are so confusing. That is true. Definition of a SDLC?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Management of this reduction work and measurement of the progress is a Close Loop Control System paradigm. The creation and management of the Plan is usually performed by the Program Planning and Controls group where I work. .

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 2, 2023

Information technology (IT) is what keeps the modern world running, which is why IT management is so crucial to business. For too many, IT is a mystery and IT management isn’t even in their vocabulary. We’ll explain these two terms, explore the various aspects of IT management and why it’s so important to businesses.

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