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). Delivery Time over Development Time. Data over Intuition.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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 ‒ Steve McConnell. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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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. What Dr. Royce was describing was a flawed model for software development as he argued for a model with multiple iterations or runs.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Define Reference Classes for those Capabilities and the Features that implement them.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Where do you find these Reference Classes ? . For software development starts with.

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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.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

This model can be produced parametrically (Reference Class Forecasting) or through a simulation (Monte Carlo or Method of Moments is common). . 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. First a definition.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

This Does Not Scale - If there are software development projects that can be executed without knowing how much it will cost in the end (an open ended spend plan), or projects where the budget is capped (a Not To Exceed Number) and we don't really need to know the upper bound of the features to be delivered, how large can this notion scale?

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. The same rule of thumb applies to other governance reviews, as well. It’s not okay, for instance, for an individual to perform both the programming and the testing of a software feature.

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