Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Management Processes.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

ProProfs Project Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

It enables knowledge workers to do their jobs efficiently via tools such as spreadsheets, presentation software, bookkeeping tools, data processing tools, calculators, etc. . Making use of apps and software for better internal collaboration and communication boosts productivity by minimizing the need for individual communication.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Software Review Monitoring Innovation 87

Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

COBIT Framework The COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) framework is a comprehensive governance and management framework that focuses on aligning IT with business objectives. It provides a set of control objectives, best practices, and management guidelines for effective risk management and IT governance.

Risk Management 36

Risk Management Risk Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 36

Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

This approach is guided by the processes for Root Cause Analysis on Software Intensive System of Systems project I've worked. Were they based on the established planning processes for complex Software Intensive System of Systems? Were there: Measures of Effectiveness. Measures of Performance.

Software Review 41

Software Review Technical Review Engineering 2018 41

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Project Management Software & Tools. Having a knowledge transfer process in place boosts the chance of project success by over 20%. [6]. More than 90% of organizations perform some type of project postmortem or closeout retrospective. [9]. Most Popular Agile Tools and Processes: Scrum – 43%. Government – Federal.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. 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." Macroeconomics is not. .

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

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 CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. Here's a summary of these elements. Newnes, Linda B.,

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Most IMPs in development programs include Events for major design reviews such as PDR or CDR. The IMP shows the Accomplishments and the measures of Accomplishments that are essential to get through a design review. If the organization is restructured or the WBS is changed, review the IMP and update it accordingly.

Planning 42

Planning Software Review Governance Government 42

Epicflow Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

I was well aware that part of my code was complex and any addition would be risky. Practically it means that when a planned task is delayed due to uncertainty, the delay is not compensated by other tasks finishing early. It helps us begin somewhere rather than getting paralyzed by what we don’t know.

2016 52

2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare 52

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

This is a recurring theme of #NoEstimates it's a waste to me the developer, I'd rather be coding , I'm not good at estimating , I see no value in my making estimating when you're just going to use them against me when I'm late and over budget. Root Cause: Productivity is the efficacy of the investment of time, talent, and money.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The 2008 mortgage crisis for example (although many did an made lots of money), the government didn't. Software Development execution and modeling is Microeconomics not Macro. The author of quote read a Taleb book on Black Swans and assumes those Black Swans are in software development. Software projects are non-ergodic.

Software Review 34

Software Review Technical Review Estimate Software Developers 34

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Acceptance Test: A process through which a project's end users run through the project to identify any potential issues before it can be formally accepted. Each 'activity' is the smallest unit of work that can be performed within the scope of the project. Activity ID: An alphanumeric code used to identify an activity.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I was well aware that part of my code was complex and any addition would be risky. Practically it means that when a planned task is delayed due to uncertainty, the delay is not compensated by other tasks finishing early. It helps us begin somewhere rather than getting paralyzed by what we don’t know.

2016 52

2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare 52

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Hayek , The American Economic Review , Vol. He was not a program manager of engineered to order software intensive system of systems. Software development is not Macroeconomics, it's Microeconomics.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute (in this post, cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is due to many reasons, one is levels of uncertainty early in the project.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

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. Today’s PMI activity code, I’ll have up on the screen here in a minute. Jeff: Here are our process groups. Here are different processes.

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59

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

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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. A process based on tangible evidentiary materials.

Transportation 39

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

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. A process based on tangible evidentiary materials.

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28