Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 17, 2024

Ready to transform your project delivery process? Learn how to collaborate effectively, detail deliverables, set standards, adapt to feedback, and continually refine processes. This definition ensures transparency and quality control as features pass the development process. What is the Definition of Done?

Software Review 52

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The main purpose of determining project management maturity is to assess the actual state of the project management process in an organization as well as detect areas and direction for its improvement. . Assessment presents methods, processes, and procedures that a company can use to self-assess its maturity. .

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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. Decision making about tangible outcomes in the presence of scarce resources.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.

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Teamweek

JUNE 13, 2023

For example, knowledge of certain applications, processes, problem-solving abilities, and technical know-how. In other words, they should be honest, confidential, trustworthy, and reliable and you should be able to trust them not just with your money or your business, but also with sensitive customer information.

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Technical Review 2025 Software Engineering Defining 52

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. Laplante, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes , Vol.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. Our perception of this world - the data and information we receive about these behaviors.

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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. It follows a sequential, linear process which is why it is often described as a “linear-sequential life cycle model”. Dr. Winston W.

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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. Estimates are made of the data quality, the aleatory and epistemic uncertainties of the experimental processes and the data they produce. . Process Fusion. Price Systems LLC.

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Estimate Governance Government Software Engineering 36

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Root Cause is the fundamental initiating cause on a causal chain leading to a failure of a process which results in a recurrence of the problem. Root Cause Analysis is a systematic documented approach to arrive at the true Root Cause of the process problem. Dwivedi, Information Systems Frontiers, 17(1), pp. 1, 2009. “A

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The beginning of all business critical software development projects is the point in time when performing organizations are least certain about the project, yet it is also the time when top management expects to be delivered project estimates that are very precise. 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation , Steve McConnell , Construx, 2002. "A

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

Cognitive bias - a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive processes, often occurring as a result of holding onto one's preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information. Because of that, we don't separate the thinking processes into a dual-system. System One - automatic. A final Thought .

Transportation 39

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. 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.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. De Meyer, C. 24, 2010. “A

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Whether you’re a small team of freelancers or a large agency, your company needs a project management tool that fits your processes like a glove. Before choosing a specific tool though, you need to decide on the type of project management software you need. Let’s look at these types of project management software in detail.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Construction 52

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. The specifics of the Technical Performance Measures applied to inform Physical Percent Complete and the Cone of Uncertainty around the TPM are shown here.

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Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

Cognitive bias - a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive processes, often occurring as a result of holding onto one's preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information. Because of that, we don't separate the thinking processes into a dual-system. System One - automatic. A final Thought .

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 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.

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Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

I spent the week speaking at the College of Performance Management conference where government and industry come together to work on the issues of cost, schedule, and technical performance management process improvement needed to increase the probability of program success. Software Engineering is a Verb.

Software Engineering 28

Software Engineering Performance Measurement Finance Manufacturing 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

Underestimating software engineering costs could result in management approving proposed systems that potentially exceed budget allocations, or underdeveloped functions with poor quality, or a failure to complete a project on time. Managing in the presence of uncertainty requires a Closed Loop Control process. No Estimates?

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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. This skill was an extension of the signal processing work I did as a grad student looking for information in the data stream of a particle accelerator.

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Software Developers Software Development Engineering Software 39

Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Let's put aside for the moment the missing principles of managerial finance, probabilistic decision making, microeconomics of decision making, Real Options, Bayesian decision networks, and other decision making processes used in modern business when spending other people's money. Governance drives processes in Agile at Scale.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. That means the system architecture, the process flow, the data flow architecture components all how NO dependencies on other. a digraph like this, that model sequential, parallel and coupled process. Actual software process flows contain loops.

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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. And I think the reason being is that along the way, in this requirements management process, there was not an appropriate traceability and monitoring process set up.

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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

In the early days long before laptops and small electronics, I used a PDP-8/m, to write Fast Fourier Transform algorithms in Macro-8, the assembly language in under 4K of memory, to process the outputs of an analog to digital converted capture data off the accelerator. Our management misuses information we provide them.

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Estimate Engineering Software Engineering Manufacturing 37

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. That means the system architecture, the process flow, the data flow architecture components all how NO dependencies on other. a digraph like this, that model sequential, parallel and coupled process. Actual software process flows contain loops.

Underperforming Technical Team 28

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population or generated from a model of the process being estimated.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

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." .

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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." . The Design Structure Matrix .

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

CEOs from Meta , Apple, Ford, and more have discussed creating a “Year of Efficiency” by streamlining business processes, accelerating delivery, and cutting unnecessary costs. If you select a generic platform you may find yourself wasting precious time trying to bend fixed software around your flexible working environment. The answer?

2023 36

2023 Governance Government Software Engineering 36

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. As more research and development is done, more information is learned about the project, and the uncertainty then tends to decrease, reaching 0% when all residual risk has been terminated or transferred. The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. As more research and development is done, more information is learned about the project, and the uncertainty then tends to decrease, reaching 0% when all residual risk has been terminated or transferred. 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 23, 2016

Credible Estimating Processes - prediction is difficult, but prediction is the basis of all decision making. How To Estimate Almost Any Software Deliverable in 90 Seconds - here's an example to debunk all those posts that say e can't possibly estimate things we don't knwo the details of. What Software Domain Do You Work In?

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Estimate Risk Management Finance Software Developers 39

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. As more research and development is done, more information is learned about the project, and the uncertainty then decreases, reaching 0% when all risk has been mitigated or transferred. The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

This Closed Loop Program Control Process provides the decision makers with actionable information. The steering target - the MOE, MOP, TPM, KPP - is defined upfront and evolves as the programs progress with new information. Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Prentice-Hall, 1981. .

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. With this paradigm we have logically connected project management processes with Control System processesIf the variances, created by uncertainty going outside the UCL and LCL. The processes is an engineering discipline. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Teamweek

JANUARY 23, 2020

In their words: The renowned INTERNET WORLD EXPO, which takes place for the 24th time in Munich, is an information platform for every trader, who wants to secure the future of their business through digitalization. They matter in society and governance. Future of tech, education, humanity, ethics, government, living environment etc.

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