Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

What is project management maturity exactly, and how to define its level? They usually describe levels indicating the current state of an organization in terms of project management efficiency and propose recommendations on how to proceed to more sophisticated levels. . What are project management maturity models?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. The success of a software product, service, and solution depends on good business, financial, and risk management. A final Thought . Palacios, Cristina Casado?Lumbreras, Lumbreras, Pedro Soto?Acosta,

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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. Software Benchmarking Organization. Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Software Improvement Group (SIG). Go find someone who knows how to do this and hire them.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 17, 2024

Learn how to collaborate effectively, detail deliverables, set standards, adapt to feedback, and continually refine processes. This is the usual approach in software engineering, which heavily applies the agile framework in combination with how collaborative and flexible the teams work. What is the Definition of Done?

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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. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. Patnail, International Journal of Software Engineering, IJSE, 8.1, Chakraborty and K.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. 5 Oct 1990, Page 21.

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Teamweek

JUNE 13, 2023

You use it to outline the requirements of the candidate and by using it, you comply with your government’s labor laws. Example: hiring a software engineer Without having a candidate profile, recruiting an engineer could take much longer and result in a candidate that does not tick all the boxes.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L. Kirkeboen, G., &

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects? Lehtinen and Mika V. Lehtinen, Mika V.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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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. Here's a summary of how to understand the Cone of Uncertainty from Incremental Spiral Community Model. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , 57 (4), pp.

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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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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

This all about me approach to spending other people's money creates barriers to addressing the Root Cause of project difficulties and most importantly inhibits open - free and frank - discussion of how to Increase the Probability of Project Success. This notion shows that governance is not considered a requirement for the business.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I was at Viacom at the time, hired as a mobile product lead for all of the Nickelodeon brands and joining an organization, a game production and software engineering organization that was very waterfall. 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

I was at Viacom at the time, hired as a mobile product lead for all of the Nickelodeon brands and joining an organization, a game production and software engineering organization that was very waterfall. You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Software developers will be relieved to find Backlog , a PM tool built solely for IT and software engineering teams. It may sound outdated to most of us, but sometimes, there are good reasons to stick to on-premise software. Let’s take a look at how desktop, online, and open-source project management match up.

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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

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." . 6, No 5, October 2014. [3]

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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

In this course, we learned about statistics beyond the physics and engineering (systems engineering) needs and how to sort out bad data from good data. This was my starting point for becoming a software engineer rather than a physicist, by the way. .

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2019

Also, organizations that embrace the whole digital product view still need help governing the ongoing process. They describe the factors at play and provide ideas for guidance around planning, funding, staffing and governance. Continuous Digital cemented my own thoughts about why good software projects never end.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 23, 2020

In their words: This is an event for IT and business leaders and architects, cyber security experts, data scientists, software engineers from businesses of all sizes – including those involved in Cloud, network infrastructure, AI, DevOps, cyber security, data analytics, unified communications and IoT. Digital Transformation Expo.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Here's some reading to help understand why its bunk and how to learn to estimate in the presence of uncertainty in order to make better decisions. We need to learn how to predict with credible methods. Software Estimating Taxonomy. How to get a "D" in the Freshman Finance Class. What Software Domain Do You Work In?

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Here's an example from a Galorath presentation , using the framework of the Cone of Uncertainty, and the actual project cones of how to put this all together. 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Here's an example from a Galorath presentation , using the framework of the Cone of Uncertainty, and the actual project cones of how to put this all together. 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

How to be a candidate ACP from an aspiring ACP. How to be an actual ACP from a candidate ACP? Then we’ll see how to continue being an ACP. Then how to approach the ACP exam in a world impacted by COVID-19 crisis. Even the engineers, hardware engineer, software engineer, mechanical engineer.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

Risk management is how adults manage projects - Tim Lister. Here's an overview of how to manage in the presence of uncertainty. . Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. All risk comes from uncertainty. Uncertainty comes in two forms - Epistemic (reducible) and Aleatory (Irreducible).

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The company’s out of Redmond, they’re part of Microsoft now, and mentioned that the developers and technologists, how they influence every function in sales marketing and HR and Microsoft’s going to be infused with that for more agility going forward. Jump-starting apps, this is really where business rules are governed.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Our design is now under pressure from the learning and we have no way to know how to change it in flight, can’t go back to the beginning and how to change it in flight to accommodate really to be adaptive like that. It always does. So learning is happening. It always does. Chris Beale Yeah, absolutely.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

The same rule of thumb applies to other governance reviews, as well. You probably remember the case of the Volkswagen software engineer who was sentenced to prison for writing code that enabled vehicles to pass emissions tests fraudulently. No one in the organization knew how to build any of the snowflake servers from scratch.

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