Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

Are you navigating the challenges of complex project landscapes, aiming to enhance collaboration, or striving to meet ever-evolving customer demands with precision? Each methodology is relevant in its own right, unlocking potential, driving innovation, and ensuring that your projects meet expectations.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Agile SCRUM 52

Teamweek

AUGUST 7, 2023

Recruiting developers in today’s job market can be as easy as knitting a sweater with spaghetti. ? With software development being the world’s most in-demand profession in 2023, tech companies and every technical recruiter on planet Earth are vying for their attention. What does a developer do?

Technical Review 52

Technical Review CTO Hire Software Review Software Engineering 52

Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

As products become more complex, technical project managers have quickly become the holy grail for growing businesses. Technical project managers (TPM) bridge the gap between understanding what’s technically possible in a project and managing the resources, timelines, and expectations to get it done. First, learn the basics.

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Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 78

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. 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.

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PM Basics

JULY 1, 2020

So, it’s time for you to become an IT project manager. Is it possible at all to become a project manager in an IT company like that? For sure, the easiest way to become a software project manager is by getting a promotion inside an IT company. Featured Download : Getting ready to become an IT Project Manager?

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Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 98

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

The reason for this resource page is the lack of understanding of how to estimate, the urban myths about software estimating, and the fallacies that estimating is not needed, when developing software, in the presence of uncertainty, when spending other peoples money. Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc.

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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. One starting point is the value at risk.

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The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Feature Driven Development (FDD) is an agile methodology specifically applied to software development. This post explores what FDD is, FDD best practices, implications of FDD for strategy, and how FDD is implemented with other agile methods while managing a project. Feature-driven Development and Strategy.

Agile 52

Agile Lean SCRUM Software Engineering 52

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 ? The program management processes should seek to reduce uncertainty in the variable of the project. Steve McConnell.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. The reason for this surge in popularity is quite understandable, the majority of projects benefit when managed using lean concepts promoted by Agile project management methodology.

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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2022

Whenever the concept of a new product is born, organizations focus on the needed competencies and start building the team that has to take over the challenge of developing it. Back then, a software engineer could handle and often master almost any technology necessary in order to develop a software product.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 20, 2022

You probably already know—Agile isn’t just for software developers anymore. After all, Agile projects deliver proven value in software projects: Higher profit More meaningful projects and client relationships Greater productivity Clearer communication. Agile project management in marketing helps easily absorb these changes.

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Agile Technical Review SCRUM Executing 52

Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used in the software development and IT industry for the past sixteen years, but recently it has gained wide acceptance by many number of industries and organizations. History of Agile project management. No wounder so many projects were failing.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. This would be like saying, risk management is a waste , control system engineering is a waste, thermal analysis of the computer system is a waste, assessment of the reliability, repairability, survivability - all the. illities are a waste.

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Stepping Into Project Management

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

So, here are a few: Project Manager (United Health Group)- Hyderabad (India) Project Manager – Job No. So, here are a few: Project Manager (United Health Group)- Hyderabad (India) Project Manager – Job No. If this help you find a job you love, that makes it all worthwhile.

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Software Review Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Software Engineering 31

Teamweek

APRIL 26, 2023

The AI tool is proving helpful in a broad range of business applications: from streamlining customer service with chatbots and virtual assistants to writers fast-tracking content creation in marketing or a software engineer creating a first draft of code in product development, the skies the limit.

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ChatGPT Process Artificial Inteligence Software Engineering 52

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. For any Agile development tools (Rally, JIRA, Team Foundation Server) have embedded tools for making these charts. What is the Value at Risk for your Project?

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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

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. In all engineering worlds, from software engineering to bending metal for money, there is really nothing new under the sun. Complexity Primer (Sandia).

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and business management. Yes, this is the basis of any closed loop control system from keeping the room temperature for a specific setting, to the speed control on your car, to managing software development projects in the presence of uncertainty, using any software method you choose.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Estimate Development Team Review 28

MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

We are a project management consulting company in the Baltimore Washington area. Background myself, I’ve been doing project program, PMO management for going on, I guess, 30 years now. By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. And in project management terminology, we must set the baseline.

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Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Engineering 59

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). The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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). The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Whether you’re a small team of freelancers or a large agency, your company needs a project management tool that fits your processes like a glove. Before choosing a specific tool though, you need to decide on the type of project management software you need. Types of project management software based on the use case.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Technical Review Construction 52

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 done by active risk management, through probabalistic decision-making.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. Fletcher Hearns: Great, thank you Kyle.

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Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Governance 52

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's say you're the project or program manager of a large complex system. We cannot escape these two uncertainties - reducible and irreducible - and must learn how to manage in the presence of these uncertainties. Maybe an aircraft, or a building, or an ERP system deployment. Abstracted from [3].

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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. Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. This extended post covers.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

It has many good concepts, one serious math error, and connects well with how we manage and work billion dollar programs. While there little here that is applicable in our software intensive world, I had a smile when I came to this slide. And oh yea,it will work enough to meet my mission success criteria right?

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

is not founded on any principle of business management, microeconomics of decision making, or principles of probability and statistics. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Managing a business profitably is always hard work. It's a fallacy.

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Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Software Governance 28

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The connection with software development/maintenance is probably obvious. Tying Up Loose Ends in Software. Keeping code clean at all times really ought to be considered baseline job performance for a software engineer. Customers would become fed up with waiting beyond the promised completion times for the work.

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Software Review Technical Review Software Engineering Underperforming Technical Team 85

Leading Agile

JUNE 18, 2018

Here are some things for managers, programmers, and testers to keep in mind. The most fundamental way to ensure high quality when developing new code or modifying existing code is to learn and use generally-accepted good software design principles. This may be a consequence of rushing the work. Prevention – Programmers.

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