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. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Andrew Middleton , the Managing Director at AMWireless, tells us how to make sure you aren’t fighting a losing battle by trying to manage the unmanageable: “All project stakeholders have got to be on board right from the start and it’s up to the PM to make sure it stays that way! Perform Risk Management.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 2002 Software Review 75

Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

Macroeconomics is the study of how people make decisions influenced by tax rates, interest rates foreign policy, and trade policy. Microeconomics is the study of how people make decisions on a personal scale and treats decisions that individual and organizations make. No Adult Management. Economics of Software Development.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Software Engineering 40

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. An exploratory study," Ricardo Colomo?Palacios,

Transportation 39

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The beginning of all business critical software development projects is the point in time when performing organizations are least certain about the project, yet it is also the time when top management expects to be delivered project estimates that are very precise. 37–48, 2007.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2017

The classic paper “ Software Engineering Economics,” Barry Boehm, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol SE-10(1), 1984, pp. Economics is the study of how people make decisions in resource-limited situations. For software development, there are many decisions to be made. IT Risk Management.

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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

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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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. An exploratory study," Ricardo Colomo?Palacios,

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

It's not clear why those advocating the first approach don't understand this, but the principles of MicroEconomics of software development demand we know both cost and value produced. For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Software development is Micro, not Macro. IT Risk Management.

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Process Estimate Software Developers Software Development 45

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

“A Taxonomy of an IT Project Failure: Root Causes,” Walid Al-Ahmad, Et Al, International Management Review, Vol. Automated Root Cause Isolation of Performance Regressions during Software Development,” Christopher Heger, Jens Happer, and Roozbeh Farahbod, ICPE ’13, April 21?24, What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects?

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2014 Aerospace 2011 2013 45

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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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

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

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development.

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

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Wrike

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In a world that’s becoming more technology driven, the role of the technical project manager – or TPM, as it’s come to be known – has established itself as a distinct subset of project management. While all TPMs are project managers, the reverse doesn’t hold true: All project managers don’t hold the technical distinction. .

Information Technology 49

Information Technology 2016 Software Engineering Infrastructure 49

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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2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . Software Risk Management , Barry W.

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Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

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.

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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. In one such study by Robert D. Austin and Richard L.

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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. 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

MARCH 11, 2018

Economics is the study of how people make decisions in resource-limited situations. Economics has two basis branches: Macroeconomics is the study of how people make decisions in resource-limited situations on a national or global scale. Software engineering economics." Boehm, Barry W.

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Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

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. It might be telling the client, how do you de-risk all that? You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Software Review Engineering Infrastructure 62

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. It might be telling the client, how do you de-risk all that? You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Software Review Engineering Infrastructure 62

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

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2020

A profession of a project manager has always been in demand and seems to be gaining momentum more and more. According to PMI’s Job Growth and Talent Gap in Project Management 2017-2027 , organizations’ need for project talent has significantly increased since their previous investigation in 2008. million project experts by 2027.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Certification PMI 2027 98

Binfire

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

How to manage projects properly is one of the most important things new project managers and students of project management should learn. Like most other disciplines, you become proficient as a project manager by practice and not just studying. Roadmap on how to manage projects. 1-Understand the problem.

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Software Review Technical Review Defining Certification 135

Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2021

On paper, managing projects seems like a straightforward process. Define your scope, break it down into manageable tasks, and assign them to your team. However, anyone who’s actually managed a project knows this couldn’t be further from the truth. Workload management. In this guide: What is workload management?

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Estimate Software Engineering 97

Wrike

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But what does AI in a work management platform look like? We might rely on AI to help us manage customer relationships through chatbots, scan for fraudulent activity in financial systems, or turn documents into data via optical character recognition (OCR). And where might it take us in the future?

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review 2030 36

Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2022

How many times have you heard statements such as, “This is not in my area of expertise”, “I don't know anything about it”, “That’s not my job”, “Ask another department” or “This is not what I studied for”? Back then, a software engineer could handle and often master almost any technology necessary in order to develop a software product.

Software Review 151

Software Review Engineering Technical Review SCRUM 151

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

Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and management. Yes, this is the basis of any closed loop control system from keeping the room temperature at a specific setting, to the speed control on your car, to managing software development projects in the presence of uncertainty. Can't go wrong here, except for a critical issue.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Estimate Software Developers 40

Planio

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Whether you’re a team lead, manager, or just trying to move a project forward, being indecisive at work means you’re holding everyone back. In one study of more than 1,100 parole hearings, researchers found that prisoners who appeared earlier in the day received parole 70% of the time. Prioritize using the “Decision-making Matrix”.

Software Review 79

Software Review Consulting Software Engineering Risk Management 79

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