PM Basics

JULY 1, 2020

For sure, the easiest way to become a software project manager is by getting a promotion inside an IT company. So, if you are just starting your career, I strongly recommend getting a job on an IT project in any other capacity like QA, Developer, DevOps, Business Analyst, or a Scrum Master. 10 to 15 people on the project team.

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

According to the Project Management Institute’s Pulse of the Profession survey , 81% of top-performing companies prioritize the development of technical project management skills. Next, ask your team questions. If you can’t walk the walk with your development team, they’re going to reject your suggestions.

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Teamweek

JUNE 24, 2020

It makes perfect sense then that app developers are some of the most sought-after specialists on the market. When 75% of businesses report a shortage of app developers on their team, knowing how to hire app developers can make or break your whole project. What is an app developer? What makes a great app developer?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process. This is simply good process development and management. What is the Root Cause of the process not being trusted? Or are you taking observations and deciding that the process is broken without finding the actual cause of the undesirable outcomes?

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PM Basics

MAY 16, 2022

Below you’ll find a full guide on how to become a software PM. TL;DR: The steps to becoming a software project manager. Develop technical proficiency. Develop your interview skills. That’s an overall approach that will make you a software project manager. You need to develop curiosity in regard to new technologies.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. The Future of Systems-and Software Development.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 27, 2018

A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. You probably spotted my error immediately.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Today, we take a look at why your software isn’t soft, explore the challenges of writing code at scale, and discuss a modern approach to writing code that will maintain its safety and simplicity over time. Video Transcript Chris Beale In traditional software development. There’s this idea of test driven development.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Chakraborty and K.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 10, 2018

There’s an assumption that silos are a bad thing. For instance, in product development, the mechanical engineers don’t need to sit in on schematic reviews with the electrical engineers or code reviews with the software developers. You then need to setup a process where you can get that information.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 17, 2018

We’ve had a bad habit at our house over the years. 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. Tying Up Loose Ends at Home.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process. This is simply good process development and business management. What is the Root Cause of the process not being trusted? The notion of waterfall development on slide 9 as actually prohibited in our domain. Have you done a Root Cause Analysis?

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

We all dream of reaching maximum success with our teams and projects, even though project failure is common. Business drivers have to be translated into project drivers by a strong technical team, not management. Most organizations build structures and processes designed to prevent project failure.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. 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. 24, 2010.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2017

The original post, while likely well meaning, coming from direct experience, focuses on ME the developer. And like many posts and tweets about estimating, it's made from this point of view, not the business point view, not from the point of view of those paying the developer. This Value is developed during the Product Planning session.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If, for example, a project manager believes a member of his or her team is a fast and effective worker, each time that team member works fast and effectively or is told by a colleague about the work that has been done fast and effectively, the project manager will consider his or her belief to be well-founded.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. That means the system architecture, the process flow, the data flow architecture components all how NO dependencies on other. This makes no sense for any development project beyond a de minimis project. Actual software process flows contain loops.

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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. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. That means the system architecture, the process flow, the data flow architecture components all how NO dependencies on other. This makes no sense for any development project beyond a de minimis project. Actual software process flows contain loops.

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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.

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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. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

The company wanted to automate their dispatching process. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. When they had their process worked out using notebooks and slips of paper, they were ready to automate. Even better: It was the right process.

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Wrike

MARCH 4, 2015

So while you want to learn more about project management — either to pick up new skills or sharpen the ones you’ve already developed — you don’t have unlimited hours to read every book on the subject. Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams – Terry Schmidt. Brooks, Jr.

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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. This is a common problem in low maturity development organizations. This extended post covers.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. .

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. .

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. .

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. .

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