Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 21, 2024

This method uses iterative processes to ensure continuous alignment with your project goals and market demands, allowing for frequent adjustments and fine-tuning. Central to adaptive project management is the iterative process, where projects are broken down into short cycles or sprints, allowing for frequent reassessments and adjustments.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Prince2 Lean Software Review 52

Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

But with changes come challenges: as the smart technology becomes mainstream, it becomes clear that it will reduce the number of workers required for certain tasks both in manufacturing and in other sectors of human employment. Theory of mind is still in the process of active development. Assembly and factory worker.

Artificial Inteligence 98

Artificial Inteligence 2025 Technical Review Software Review 98

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.

Software Developers 39

Software Developers Software Development Engineering Software 39

MPUG

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The following are examples of factors from the PMBOK Guide that lead to said project’s creation: Business process improvements. The answer is all types, from exceptionally large to small; from suppliers to manufacturers to retailers; from for profit to non-profit organizations. Federal and state governments. Manufacturing.

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Retail PMI 2001 2011 119

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Managment Processes. Software for Your Mind: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Creating and Maintaining a Shared Vision. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008.

2003 54

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

nTask

JULY 5, 2019

However, you may not have heard of some other PM techniques, such as, but not limited to Extreme Project Management , Rational Unified Process , and vice versa. RUP – Rational Unified Process: RUP is an alternate form of Waterfall. As far as RUP is concerned, it is a framework for software development projects.

Critical Chain 101

Critical Chain Technical Review Software Review Manufacturing 101

Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

But with changes come challenges: as the smart technology becomes mainstream, it becomes clear that it will reduce the number of workers required for certain tasks both in manufacturing and in other sectors of human employment. Theory of mind is still in the process of active development. Assembly and factory worker.

Artificial Inteligence 52

Artificial Inteligence 2025 Technical Review Software Review 52

Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

Software development is a Value Creaton activity, but Value cannot be determined unless we know the cost to produce that value and when that value will be available for use by those who of paid for that Value. For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Microeconomics .

Process 45

Process Estimate Software Developers Software Development 45

ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

Creating a winning formula for efficiently implementing business processes. Developing a similar vision of what’s needed to stay on track. A methodology is a framework of processes, methods, and practices that project managers employ for the design, planning, implementation and achievement of their project objectives.

Prince2 122

Prince2 Lean SCRUM Governance 122

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 30, 2017

One notion in a governance paradigm is It's Not Your Money . I'd like to provide some background on how proper governance leads to proper estimating and how that's done when those asking for and those providing the estimates have a mutual understanding the reasons for why estimates are needed for any non-trivial project work.

Estimate 61

Estimate Governance Government Risk Management 61

Digite

JANUARY 7, 2018

Several good books have been written on Kanban and its application to various business processes, especially to Scrum, since David Anderson published his original Kanban “blue book”. This book describes why students, parents, business leaders, major corporations, and world governments all see immediate results with Personal Kanban.

Lean 79

Lean Software Review 2010 2014 79

TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) software is like a virtual task master for any complex business needs. With an ERP you can maximize daily business processes like optimizing workflow with project management tools or expediting the procurement process.

Software Review 62

Software Review Software Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 62

TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) software is like a virtual task master for any complex business needs. With an ERP you can maximize daily business processes like optimizing workflow with project management tools or expediting the procurement process. . Popular ERP Features and Functionality.

Software Review 62

Software Review Software Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 62

iZenBridge

JUNE 26, 2022

The Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification is the world’s top recognized project management certification governed by PMI. Process: The process domain shows your deep knowledge of project management processes in all three approaches: Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid. Benefits of PMP Certification.

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Certification 2022 2027 Telecoms 40

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

“#Noestimates is a hashtag for the topic of exploring alternatives to estimates for making decisions in software development. The domains of software development operate in the presence of uncertainty. Question the governance of the business? Governance is about decision rights ( [link] ). Question what?

Estimate 34

Estimate Governance Government Risk Management 34

Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

Anderson best articulated its application to software development, in 2013, in the foundational book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, and its adoption hasn’t been as universal as Scrum’s during the early days of Agile software development. Make Process Policies Explicit.

Agile 110

Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 110

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2017

This quote is coming back in the modern era of internet-based misinformation pundits in many domains, including project management and software development processes. The hypothesis is tested, the evidence is found to support or undermine the hypotheses, and knowledge is gained in the process. Related articles.

Finance 35

Finance Manufacturing Governance Government 35

Planio

JANUARY 29, 2024

But while there are plenty of problems and project risks that can kill your team’s efficiency, one of the greatest threats to your productivity is not taking the time to create and master repeatable processes. Jump to a section: What is process mapping? How to create a process map using workflow management software 1.

Process 88

Process Software Review Risk Management Defining 88

Herding Cats

JANUARY 11, 2018

This is the basis of all Closed Loop Control systems, from the speed control of the car, to the flight controls for an aircraft, to the temperature controls for your home, and of course the business controls for software development. Right and wrong cease to be useful concepts when you’re talking about software development.

Agile 39

Agile Software Developers Software Development Estimate 39

Planio

JUNE 3, 2024

Project management is the process of planning, organizing, and coordinating changes. Whether you’re a construction company building a new skyscraper or a software team planning a new product launch, the key to success is aligning your industry, people, and product to the right project management approach. What is project management?

Lean 88

Lean Construction Risk Management Retail 88

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

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 ? The program management processes should seek to reduce uncertainty in the variable of the project. Steve McConnell. 37–48, 2007.

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2012 2007 2011 2010 48

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2017

Governance principles provide guidance to institutionalize a process, including its continued assessment and evolution over time in support of the tangible system benefits. Capabilities planning consists of several core processes that describe the system capabilities in the absence of the specific technical or operational requirements.

Engineering 46

Engineering Manufacturing Sustainability Defining 46

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.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

MPUG

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Kyle: Sorin Fiscu is CEO if Housatonic Software, a company that develops software solutions for product managers such as Project Plan 365. Renowned for apps that work with Microsoft Project data, Sorin leads a team of software developers that are well versed in PM methodologies and practices. Nonprofits, as normal.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Risk Management 52

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

"Managing the Development of Large-Scale Software: Concepts and Techniques," Winston Royce, Proceedings, Wescon, August 1970. Iterative Enhancement: A Practical Technique for Software Development," Victor Basil and Albert Turner, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 4, December 1975. Related articles.

2003 38

2003 Software Engineering Manufacturing Engineering 38

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

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. These forecasts usually come from models of the process being forecast. The Buff's won and are now the PAC-12 South Champs.

Estimate 36

Estimate 2015 2017 Governance 36

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

And so, from how we do governance and how we do project planning and how we do organizational structure, all those kinds of things, right, so there’s this big hop. Because those are the things that fundamentally get in the way how we govern, right, how we deal with cross cutting concerns. We are building an internal tool.

Agile 89

Agile SCRUM Governance Government 89

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 28, 2022

Kanban is a visual workflow tool that, while originally used as a Toyota scheduling system, is now associated with in an agile methodology, especially in DevOps software development. The kanban method is governed by a set of principles. This allows for better management of the process, which improves the flow of work.

Lean 285

Lean Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Manufacturing 285

Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

What does it look like when we’re trying to figure out how to do agile governance? Not only at the team level, but at the program level at the portfolio level, at the strategy level, like at the macro level of governance and that was kind of the problem that we really set off to solve. Like how do you start it?

Sustainability 86

Sustainability Agile SCRUM Technical Review 86

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp.

Risk Management 38

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

Risk Management 35

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Scrum is) more defined rather than empirical process. This took me back since Scrum is derived from an empirical closed loop control system developed in the USAF by Col. the OODA loop sketch and related insights represent an evolving, open-ended, far from equilibrium process of self-organization, emergence and natural selection.

Closing 28

Closing Controlling SCRUM Estimate 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Nature of the system to be developed - what's the basic processes of the system? Can All This Formality Have Any Use in Modern Software Development? Developing a Stakeholder-Assisted Agile CONOPS Development Process," Ali Mostashari, Sara A. Market considerations - who's going to buy this?

2014 38

2014 2013 2012 Engineering 38

Herding Cats

MAY 25, 2018

Let's look at the principles of cost, price, and value to the customer from the point of view of the business funding the development of the software, the customer buying the software, and the financial models needed to know if the firm producing the software can stay in business over time. . Related articles.

Finance 37

Finance Estimate Manufacturing Software 37

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”.

Software Review 97

Software Review 2019 Development Team Review Technical Review 97

Herding Cats

MAY 25, 2018

Let's look at the principles of cost, price, and value to the customer from the point of view of the business funding the development of the software, the customer buying the software, and the financial models needed to know if the firm producing the software can stay in business over time. . Related articles.

Finance 28

Finance Estimate Manufacturing Software 28