Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Our perception of this world - the data and information we receive about these behaviors. Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E.

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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. Quantitative Software Management (QSM). Software Benchmarking Organization. Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Software Improvement Group (SIG).

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Research on information systems failures and successes: status update and future directions,” Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Information Systems Frontiers, 17(1), pp. What factors lead to software project failure?” Why Do Information Technology Projects Fail?” Gano, Atlas Books, 2007. 1, 2009. “A Lehtinen and Mika V. 29 May 2013.

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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. What Is Information Technology (IT)? What Is Information Technology (IT)? IT Governance IT governance is a framework for aligning IT strategy with the business strategy of the organization.

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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

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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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. Dorofee, et.

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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. When System One works it is because of memories and past experiences inform the decision. System One is gut feel or intuition.

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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. 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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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. When System One works it is because of memories and past experiences inform the decision. System One is gut feel or intuition.

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Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

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. IT Risk Management.

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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. Here are three starting resources for Software Economics: Software Engineering Economics , Barry Boehm.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 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. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. By education and training.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

They are not informed by the principles of spending other people's money. There are intense pressures, incomplete information about what’s happening in the marketplace and an army of consultants, advisors and others who come along with new ideas every day. Governance drives processes in Agile at Scale. If not, walk away.

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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. Related articles.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

I expect you’ll join me in recognising that Information Technology has existed for approximately 100 years. Information Technology is a young industry with several even younger career paths, one of which is Information Technology Service Management (ITSM). million years.

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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

This was my starting point for becoming a software engineer rather than a physicist, by the way. . Our management misuses information we provide them. Did you provide the wrong information? What don't you understand about making decisions in the presence uncertainty? What class did you not attend? Are they incompetent?

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

We can estimate the total cost, total duration, and the probability that all the Features will be delivered on the program we are working for the US Government. Or ANY software project for that matter. 2] IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , SXE-10, Janurary, 1981, pp. Estimates have precision and accuracy.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

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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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

If you select a generic platform you may find yourself wasting precious time trying to bend fixed software around your flexible working environment. This could mean repeating information, duplicating tasks, or complicating already complex projects. The answer?

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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. Software Engineering Economics”. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

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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. Software Engineering Economics”. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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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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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. These are used to inform the designer of the progress of the project as it proceeds.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Tolerance bands for the project base weight provide management with actionable information about the progression of the program. The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

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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”. Back to the Cone of Uncertainty.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

Its simplicity and ease of implementation has made it the most popular version of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) for software engineering and IT projects. Benington gave a presentation about the development of software for SAGE at Symposium on advanced programming methods for digital computers. Special Requirements.

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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.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Software Review Engineering Infrastructure 62

Teamweek

JUNE 13, 2023

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. You use it to outline the requirements of the candidate and by using it, you comply with your government’s labor laws.

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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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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. Performing requirements traceability analysis is an important part of software engineering. You may watch the recording of this webinar at your convenience.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Toggl Plan helps you keep all task-related information is one page. Software developers will be relieved to find Backlog , a PM tool built solely for IT and software engineering teams. Using project management software as a team is more than just having numerous people accessing the same platform. Example: Backlog.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

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. Actually, the main reason Prosperity went out there this year, not only to gain information and insight into everything, Microsoft Project, but it also collected awards.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.

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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." . Software for the Mind.

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