Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

For example, about which software to buy, which Features in the development backlog should be implemented next, what prices to charge for products and services. Software development is an exercise in microeconomics, since it deals with limited resources - time, cost, and what value is produced in exchange for the time and money.

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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. Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. Software-intensive systems include: .

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Before listening to any conjecture that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of Uncertainty for software development, please read these books. What are we looking for? Reading Materials. Start here.

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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

MAY 19, 2017

If it truly hasn't been done before, then the software project is likely to be an inventing new physics project. As well we made estimates of what information will be produced after spending the customers (in most cases the government is the customer) money. Nederlandse Software Metrieken Association. 4SUM Partners Inc.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. 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. So, I’m basically saying the middle ground is a software engineer.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 2, 2023

Information technology, more commonly referred to as IT, is using hardware, software and the supporting infrastructure to manage and deliver data through various means, such as voice, video, etc. IT management is how IT systems, such as hardware, software and networks, are monitored, administered and controlled. That’s only a few.

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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 ? This variation can be explained by the fact that initial concepts do not describe the final software system accurate enough.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. What factors lead to software project failure?” All for the want of a nail.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006.

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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.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. 5] "Decisions in software development projects management.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The Incremental Commit Spiral Model provides an iterative and incremental framework for complex software intensive system of systems. Agile is certainty more common these days and has moved to Software Intensive System of Systems where I work, but IID has been around a long time. 4, December 1975.

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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. Sizing Challenges," Victor Fuster & Taylor Putnam-Majarian, Software and IT-CASR Proceedings , 22-24 August 2017. Newnes, Linda B., Mileham, Antony R.,

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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

JUNE 9, 2018

With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. 5] "Decisions in software development projects management.

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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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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

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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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. Software development is Micro, not Macro.

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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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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

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. This is the domain of Microeconomics and when applied to software development it is the microeconomics of software development.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Economics of Software Development. Herding Cats: Economics of Software Development. The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile. Prentice-Hall, 1981. The poster below is from Steve McConnell's site and makes several things clear.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Most of these roles were based on aspects of IT operation, such as mainframe operation and maintenance, which later evolved into software development and commercialisation. As governments and organisations began to utilise IT to run their organisations, the concepts of ‘services’ began to evolve.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

So why would we think one-size-fits-all work management software is a good idea? Our software powers more than 20,000 organizations around the world with 2.4m That’s why we made Wrike the most versatile work management software solution on the market. At Wrike, we know better. users in almost every field or industry.

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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

This was my starting point for becoming a software engineer rather than a physicist, by the way. . Hooked up to the experiment was a series of oscilloscopes with Poloride cameras attached to capture the signal of something interesting to the Principle Investigators.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] Software Engineering Economics”. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management, Auer-bach, 2006. [15]Jorgensen,

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] Software Engineering Economics”. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management, Auer-bach, 2006. [15]Jorgensen,

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] Software Engineering Economics”. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, Prentice-Hall, 2000. [10] Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management, Auer-bach, 2006. [15]Jorgensen,

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2019

Now that a software “Done” Milestone is more like a Tombstone. As software becomes more critical to business operations and product offerings we are seeing that software projects do not end. Many organizations are transitioning to become software focussed organizations that offer specialized services. October 2018.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Economics of Software Development. Herding Cats: Economics of Software Development. The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile. Prentice-Hall, 1981. The poster below is from Steve McConnell's site and makes several things clear.

Technical Review 28

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Before choosing a specific tool though, you need to decide on the type of project management software you need. And choosing from the many different project management software types can be quite a challenge. Types of project management software based on the use case. Project and resource planning software.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You start selling software licenses, you disrupt the whole way of selling. The whole value chain beyond just the engineering piece gets disrupted. You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze. And so it might not be telling the client to do less.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You start selling software licenses, you disrupt the whole way of selling. The whole value chain beyond just the engineering piece gets disrupted. You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze. And so it might not be telling the client to do less.

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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."

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