Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

Ready to transform your approach to project management and software development? Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. It helps in managing workload effectively and ensures quality output.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Agile SCRUM 52

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

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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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. A metaphor is not a complete and comprehensive definition of the Thing it refers to.

Software Review 83

Software Review Technical Review Software Engineering Underperforming Technical Team 83

nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We did an extensive analysis of various factors that influence waterfall project management. This helped us to simplify how nTask project management software can be used for solving such issues. Waterfall is a popular SDLC project management model. What Do You Need to Know about Waterfall Oriented Project Management?

Software Review 97

Software Review 2019 Development Team Review Technical Review 97

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

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.

Software Review 148

Software Review Engineering Technical Review SCRUM 148

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. References . A Correction fixed the immediate non-conformance.

2014 45

2014 Aerospace 2011 2013 45

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 13, 2018

A real option is a choice made available with business investment opportunities, referred to as “real” because it typically references a tangible asset instead of a financial instrument. Real Options the management the needed flexibility to take actions, in the presence of uncertainty, that itself emerges over time. 744-758. "A

2008 32

2008 2002 Estimate Software Engineering 32

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

A working paper of the same title " Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM), " Barry Boehm, Jo Ann Lane, Supannika Koolmanojwong, Richard Turner, CSCI577, Software Engineering, Fall 2017, University of Southern California (my alma mater in Systems Engineering) . IT Risk Management. Data over Intuition.

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Estimate 2017 Governance Government 50

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. Define Reference Classes for those Capabilities and the Features that implement them. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points.

Estimate 42

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

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. Reference class forecasting predicts the outcome of an action based on actual outcomes in a reference class of similar actions to that being forecast.

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

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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Estimate Engineering Software Engineering Software Developers 40

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.

Agile 52

Agile Technical Review SCRUM Executing 52

Teamweek

APRIL 26, 2023

The Generative Pre-trained Transformer, or GPT part, refers to how the program learns from experience, without being programmed or told what to do, and continually improves through user input. Example prompt : Create a Boolean search string for LinkedIn to identify a Customer Support Manager with experience in global SaaS products.

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ChatGPT Process Artificial Inteligence Software Engineering 52

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. Which project management books are best for your experience level? 23 Project Management Books for All Levels.

Software Review 53

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Developers 53

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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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

These systems are developed for external and internal customers. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. Paradigm of agile project management from Glen Alleman. .

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Estimate Software Engineering Engineering Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Here's an extract from "Chapter 8: Human Behavior and Complexity," Terry Cooke-Davies, in Aspects of Complexity: Managing Projects in a Complex World. This is a cautionary tale for those listening to the #NoEstimates advocates, where anecdotes of bad management are used in an attempt to replace established principles of business management.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

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. Reference Design Concept - reference class forecast is the key to estimates if you've never done the work before. This includes software, hardware, integration and test.

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Estimate Risk Management Finance Software Developers 39

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].

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Building software. Preparing test data to exercise applications prior to deployment.

Software Review 55

Software Review Software Technical Review Development Team Review 55