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. . Nederlandse Software Metrieken Association.

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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. References . What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects?

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Probabilistic over Deterministic is standard estimating processes in every single book, paper, guideline, policy, and regulations governing the development in use of estimates in commercial (ITIL) and Government (all agency and GAO Estimating handbooks). Past Performance for similar projects is called Reference Class Forecasts.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 8, 2023

That’s what a skills mismatch is — it refers to a noticeable gap between the skills of the employees and the skills actually needed for the particular job. You can avoid a lot of these issues by including skills assessments in the hiring process.

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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 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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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 is a sample of reference papers used in our domain that may help further the understanding of how the CoU is used. The original idea came in 1981.

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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, 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

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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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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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

After having worked for outsourcing, consultancy and product companies I believe that creating a place where people really trust each other is easier when software engineers and stakeholders are both part of the same organization. Similarly, product lifecycle management (PLM) integrates people, data, processes and business systems.

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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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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For example, last year, they audited a number of books into the ACP certification reference and they removed also a number of books. Even the engineers, hardware engineer, software engineer, mechanical engineer. Now you’re thinking, how about mechanical engineer I just said.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Reference Design Concept - reference class forecast is the key to estimates if you've never done the work before. Credible Estimating Processes - prediction is difficult, but prediction is the basis of all decision making. This is a Wide Band Delphi process that has been around for . What Software Domain Do You Work In?

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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

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. And this is a good illustration that monitoring and controlling requirements starts all the way at the beginning of the entire requirements process.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Kyle’s already done a great introduction for Leo and myself, Larry here, so we’re going to keep moving and get right into what happened at Inspire and what we plucked out of there, specific to the new Project services being referred to as the … This is the largest event for Microsoft partners. It is the common data model.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Agile transformation, transformation at scale, the ability to take really complex, tightly coupled organizations to begin the process of untangling them. You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze. You’re not just a strategy firm.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Agile transformation, transformation at scale, the ability to take really complex, tightly coupled organizations to begin the process of untangling them. You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze. You’re not just a strategy firm.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

The company wanted to automate their dispatching process. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. When they had their process worked out using notebooks and slips of paper, they were ready to automate. Even better: It was the right process.

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