The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The future of AI in project management will depend on how we implement, use, and govern it! He additionally served as Director of Civil Agencies at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute and as Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton. Euguene earned an M.S. He is a retired U.S. Air Force officer.

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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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Teamweek

AUGUST 7, 2023

What’s the problem with recruiting software developers? The demand for software developers far outweighs the available supply, making it a real challenge to find the right candidates. To make matters worse, top-notch software engineers know their worth and often expect handsome salaries.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2018

This is something your Information Governance Manager or DPO can help with. If you set up your company insurance software engine to automatically decline people who trip several triggers during the buying process, then you need to make sure that’s clear to people. The measures you can take to mitigate those risks.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

That idea of big upfront design and late testing kind of got codified into a lot of our process governance around there. So I guess what I was just saying is that we’re making it worse a little bit by codifying some of those practices into our governance models. Chris Beale Yeah, absolutely.

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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). Delivery Time over Development Time. Development effort is time-dependent.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Having spent half my life in the commercial space and half in the government space, the questions are always there. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. Is it Fletcher?

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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). Quantimetrics.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

“Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. 9, Issue 3, No.

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The second dimension represents the maturity levels based on the Capability Maturity Model developed by the Software Engineering Institute (one of the most popular and widely-accepted models of organizational maturity assessment). Let’s take a look at these levels. . Level #1: Initial process.

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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. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 17, 2024

This is the usual approach in software engineering, which heavily applies the agile framework in combination with how collaborative and flexible the teams work. These alternatives may be preferable in environments where flexibility or different forms of project management tool governance are required.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L. Kirkeboen, G., &

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Teamweek

AUGUST 1, 2023

Data governance and compliance — Ensuring data is managed safely and effectively in a way that complies with global data protection regulations. There’s a fast-growing need for more data professionals in the workplace, including roles like Data Engineers, ML Engineers, Data Scientists and Data Analysts.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

A Quick Estimation Approach to Software Cost Estimation," Leckraj Nagowah, Hajrah BibiBenazir, and Bachun, African Conference on Software Engineering and Applied Computing , . "A A Probabilistic Method for Predicting Software Code Growth," Michael Ross, Journal of Cost Analysis and Parametrics 4:127-147, 2011. "10

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Teamweek

JUNE 13, 2023

You use it to outline the requirements of the candidate and by using it, you comply with your government’s labor laws. Example: hiring a software engineer Without having a candidate profile, recruiting an engineer could take much longer and result in a candidate that does not tick all the boxes.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

“Automated Root Cause Isolation of Performance Regressions during Software Development,” Christopher Heger, Jens Happer, and Roozbeh Farahbod, ICPE ’13, April 21?24, Agile process Smell and Root Cause Analysis,” Dave Nicolette, International Conference on Agile Processes and Extreme Programing in Software Engineering, 2009.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. The success of a software product, service, and solution depends on good business, financial, and risk management. A final Thought . Palacios, Cristina Casado?Lumbreras, Lumbreras, Pedro Soto?Acosta,

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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.

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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

MAY 11, 2019

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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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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.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For instance, an individual having a software engineering degree might not be a great fit for a customer service role. These skills are key for businesses adapting to new government or industry regulations and consumer needs. Sustainability and environmental skills are increasingly important these days, too.

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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

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. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , 57 (4), pp. The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric.

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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.

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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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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. This notion shows that governance is not considered a requirement for the business.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. The success of a software product, service, and solution depends on good business, financial, and risk management. A final Thought . Palacios, Cristina Casado?Lumbreras, Lumbreras, Pedro Soto?Acosta,

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Software developers will be relieved to find Backlog , a PM tool built solely for IT and software engineering teams. It may sound outdated to most of us, but sometimes, there are good reasons to stick to on-premise software. Desktop vs. online PM software. Open-source project management software .

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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. So if you're writing software and NOT doing the things in the list above, I guess you're creating an art form or are a craftsman, not a software engineer.

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Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

This is called Software Engineering Economics. Knowing the probabilistic behaviours of all three of these random variables - Value, Time needed to produce the Value, and Cost to produce the Value is required for any decision to be made in the presence of uncertainty. Related articles. IT Risk Management.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Governance drives processes in Agile at Scale. Governance can be ignored or even flaunted for small self contained teams. Organizing for responsiveness to external business drivers at scale means additional cost must be absorbed to govern in the presence of these externalities. . Economics of Software Development.

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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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