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Herding Cats
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Mine is in hard science and systems engineering. Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. Let's start with the core issue on all software development projects. All engineering courses, including software development in Computer Science courses, is based on probability and statistics at some level.
Herding Cats
AUGUST 27, 2017
Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. We engineers should always keep in mind that software development is usually one part of many others inside the company.
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Herding Cats
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
Mine is in hard science and systems engineering. Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. Often referred to as the black art because of the complexity and uncertainty, software estimation is as difficult or puzzling as people think. . Software engineering has become procedural and controlled.
Herding Cats
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
This model can be produced parametrically (Reference Class Forecasting) or through a simulation (Monte Carlo or Method of Moments is common). . An estimate is a statistic about a whole population of possible values from a previous reference period or a model that can generate possible values given the conditions of the model.
ProjectManager.com
AUGUST 2, 2023
Information technology, more commonly referred to as IT, is using hardware, software and the supporting infrastructure to manage and deliver data through various means, such as voice, video, etc. We’ll explain these two terms, explore the various aspects of IT management and why it’s so important to businesses. That’s only a few.
Herding Cats
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
This Does Not Scale - If there are software development projects that can be executed without knowing how much it will cost in the end (an open ended spend plan), or projects where the budget is capped (a Not To Exceed Number) and we don't really need to know the upper bound of the features to be delivered, how large can this notion scale?
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. Define Reference Classes for those Capabilities and the Features that implement them. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. References.
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