Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

There is a current rash of suggestions on how to improve the performance of software projects. One case of 12 projects from a large contractor of Software Intensive System (SIS) shows similar variances . I'd suggest the Principles for project success on non-trivial software efforts are universal.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 29, 2021

In that discussion, I covered a range of topics – Building a Business Case and the Key Financial Metrics that should be provided in your Business Case, Understanding your Company’s Software Development Costs, the Importance of Benchmarking, Importance of keeping your Asset Management current, and Capitalizing and Amortizing Software Costs.

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Finance Agile Performance Measurement Estimate 84

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

Here are three common types of PMOs from across various sectors: Supportive PMO Industry Application - A supportive PMO is common in industries where projects require flexibility and autonomy, such as IT and software development enterprises. Function - A supportive PMO provides guidance, best practices, templates, and tools.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 10, 2019

A critical missing component of software development, especially agile software development, and even more especially agile software development is the notion of a System and a System of Systems. Measures of Performance. Key Performance Parameters. Technical Performance Measures.

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Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

As more and more companies scramble to untangle the code of their monolithic legacy software and get it into the cloud, strategic priorities are shifting. Want the Deck Text HIDDEN to 33777 Video Transcript We will run into times where packing software makes it harder for us to transform the skills of our staff and external vendors.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

For instance, a software development company that aims to be effective would focus on delivering bug-free software that provides a seamless user experience. Using the previous example, efficiency would require finding ways to speed up the software development process without compromising quality.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The original agile author's quote shows that systems engineering is missing from his development of software using Agile. In most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. To connect What with How we start with the Technical Performance Measures.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2016

I come to this systems domain from the Software Intensive System of Systems paradigm. When I hear about complex software systems and how difficult they are, and how undesirable they are, and all the other urban legends about complexity, complex, complicated and chaos, I get a smile. Technical Performance Measures.

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Engineering Software Performance Measurement Finance 28

The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Earned Value Management (EVM) A systematic approach to project performance measurement assessing schedule and cost performance. Product Backlog A prioritized list of features, enhancements, and fixes for a product that needs to be accomplished and is often used in Agile product development.

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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. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

It all starts with measurement. When it comes to software delivery, there are different metrics development teams can use to measure and track performance. DORA uses data-driven insights to deliver best practices in DevOps, with an emphasis on helping organizations develop and deliver software faster and better.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2017

The common definition of the Definition of Done in agile software development is (mostly from the Scrum Alliance and other official Scrum sites): A simple list of activities (coding, comments, unit testing, integration, release notes, design documents, etc.) Do they characterize the major drivers of performance?

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 14, 2016

Many blogs, tweets, books are spent of speaking about Value as the priority in agile software development. We produce Value at the end of every Sprint Value is the most important aspect of Scrum based development. MOP's are attributes that assure the systems to capability to perform. We focus on Value over cost.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Rarely the case in software development, where Little's Law is misused often. The OP claimed Goodhart's Law was the source of most of the problems with software development. What this says is again when the measure becomes the target, that target impacts the measure, changing the target. .

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

Performance Measurement Baseline. This creates a point of comparison of all the other baselines to evaluate project performance. It refers to all the change-related process that need to be performed during project execution. Optimistic Duration. It includes the coordination, management, and evaluation of project changes.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When we hear of the difficulties of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty, especially about software features and capabilities, there are straightforward ways to solve this problem. AHP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Saaty. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. References . [1]

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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). There can be cost and schedule performance measures as well.

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Shipping on time, to specifications, and within budget might be meaningless if a competitor is shipping software that has a greater value to the market. Landmark’s measure of success over these three years had much more to do with customer satisfaction and market share than with meeting knowingly aggressive targets. Laird and M.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 27, 2016

There are two kinds of uncertainty on all projects, no matter the domain, including software development projects. For customers paying for the development of software, these things include - cost, schedule (time cost of money), market timing, and performance of the product to name a few. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For software, this can be value produced (assuming we have a unit of measure for that value in the for of effectiveness, performance, key performance parameters, or technical performance measures ). For your Honeywell or Nest controller on the wall, that sample rate is measured in seconds.

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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). There can be cost and schedule performance measures as well.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 19, 2018

Have sufficient Technical Performance Measures margin to cover the required performance measure of the Capabilities. For example throughput , we need enough margin in the delivered product to meet or exceed the customer's need without spending too much time or money to provide that margin.

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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. What dos Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. These are all focused on developing software, delivering that software to those paying the developers. Anything less results in systems not worth having or fail to function or perform. [3],

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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. Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute (in this post, cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). There can be cost and schedule performance measures as well.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 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). There can be cost and schedule performance measures as well.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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." Boehm, Barry W.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Or ANY software project for that matter. In the project domain, an estimate is a calculated approximation of some desired measurement. This is the domain of Microeconomics and when applied to software development it is the microeconomics of software development. Estimates have precision and accuracy.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The project and portfolio management (PPM) software market is changing. In this article we look at emerging software in the PPM space and discuss how its selection and implementation needs to be done in line with an overarching digital strategy. A tiny snapshot of the analysis that the different software tools went through.

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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. What dos Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context.

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Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

Two Books in the Spectrum of Software Development. With all this in place - to whatever scale is appropriate for the problem at hand, we need the final pieces. There, now we've got Principles, Processes, and Practices all connected. Related articles. We've Been Doing This for 20 Years. Applying the Right Ideas to the Wrong Problem.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

The Cone of Uncertainty,” Stephen Gryphon, Phillippe Kruchten, and Steve McConnell, Letters, IEEE Software , 23 (5) 2006, pp 8?10. Shrinking the Cone of Uncertainty with Continuous Assessment for Software Team Dynamics in Design and Development,” Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn,”Ph.D. 37–48, 2007.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

For approaches that have been implemented on existing systems, obtaining such understanding may require measurement and analysis. For scenarios where the project under consideration does not yet exist, performance prediction using analytical modeling or simulation is necessary. The IMS is then placed on a baseline in the PMB.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. All project work operates in the presence of uncertainty.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM).

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. probably not.

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