Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

We’ve surveyed members of LinkedIn PM communities to find out what leads to project failure. Our survey participants suggested various effective ways to mitigate the causes of project failure. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Involve Your Stakeholders.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 2, 2018

I’ve spoken to dozens of project managers this year and surveyed more than 200. Industries like construction, software engineering, and consultancy probably see this as less of an issue. I don’t have an answer, but I know there are software tools (like LiquidPlanner) that alleviate the challenge and make it transparent.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 23, 2017

Software Engineering Metrics and Models. Please go buy Software Engineering Metrics and Models , it's cheap and packed full of the mathematics needed to actually perform credible estimating on software intensive systems. And download the paper that followed " A Software Metrics Survey.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

"Improving Software Development Tracking and Estimation Inside the Cone of Uncertainty," Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn, Thanida Hongsongkiat, and Barry Boehm, Technical Report USC-CSSE-2012-504, Center for Systems and Software Engineering, University of Southern California, 2012. 37-48, 2007. Accurate Estimates Without Local Data?”

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. I know I’m going to have a senior software engineer and I want him working on these tasks [inaudible 00:12:15] who that is. ” So, in this case, I see the junior software engineer is costing me $1.50

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

Over 600 project management professionals were surveyed to find out what was impacting their work. Click here to download ProjectManager’s survey report on 2022 project management trends. What to Expect: Sessions focus on agility, software engineering and lean business.

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Scrum.org

MAY 17, 2022

I also ran analyses on the data we’re collecting with the Scrum Team Survey and another dataset that was offered to me by Rishi D Markenday and Dave West from Scrum.org. I recently had the opportunity to analyze anonymized survey data from 67 Agile practitioners. The survey consists of 23 multiple-choice questions. References.

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

Questionaries and Surveys. In the end, you need requirements that software engineers will understand. In this phase you can use all the available options to define requirements : Brainstorming. Interviews. Focus Groups. Document Analysis. Mind Mapping. Wireframes. User Stories.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. Individual contributor team, lead section, lead project manager, program manager, director of engineering. ” Fletcher Hearns: What I’ve done in the past, it is doing surveys.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Same debunking from the Gartner Survey - no root causes of those poor performance numbers. Same for the Ambler surveys. Send out a survey, ask some questions about project failure rates, ask nothing about the root cause of those failures. What was the population the received the survey? Read here for more background.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

case studies, surveys, experiments) and the statistical methods used. A ranked list of academic journals for the field of software engineering (there are many dozens) at [link] One question I always ask myself when I read a paper is: “Where was it published?”. This section is usually called “Introduction” or “Related Work”.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 22, 2018

Your team engagement scores are low in the annual staff survey, as well. But if your team are certified, experienced software engineers, they should be people you can trust. Another sad measure of being a micromanager is that your team has a high turnover. It’s a sorry state of affairs, but life doesn’t have to be like this.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Same debunking from the Gartner Survey - no Root Causes of those poor performance numbers, undefined sampling processes, not defined population statistics. Same for the Ambler surveys. Send out a survey, ask some questions about project failure rates, ask nothing about the root cause of those failures. Standish Number.

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Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Yet, a survey of agency workers found that 74% say they’re overbooked on projects at least once a month! For advice on making the most out of your day, check out our guide on How to Become a More Productive Software Engineer. Lowers stress. 7 steps to master team workload management.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Indeed, according to PMI’s 2020 Pulse of the Profession , the in-demand skills priorities among the PM organizations who participated in the survey are as follows: Technical skills. What Are the Best Software Tools to Use for Project Management and What Tools Are the Worst? Leadership skills. Business skills. Digital skills.

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Redbooth

APRIL 26, 2018

The model has been favored by software engineers for its efficacy and flexibility, and it’s beginning to catch on in agencies and startups. Survey your team to see which view they prefer. If you work in tech or any industry where things change fast, you probably are familiar with agile project management.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 8, 2023

According to the 2023 ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage survey , 77% of employers report difficulties in filling roles — a 17-year high that’s over twice what it was a decade ago. For instance, an individual having a software engineering degree might not be a great fit for a customer service role.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

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." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

Thus, I’ll share her contact and the book we’ll be discussing today in our survey email, following the event. I’ll share a link later with this recording, contact information, book information and a quick survey. Cindy enjoys sharing her knowledge with the project management community. Cindy, a big MPUG welcome back.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

“Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. 9, Issue 3, No.

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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

This is from the PMI, pulse of profession survey and it says that 47% of unsuccessful projects fail to meet original goals due to poor requirements. Performing requirements traceability analysis is an important part of software engineering. And there aren’t any scope holes developed.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.

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Planio

APRIL 16, 2020

Out of the nearly 90,000 people who took StackOverflow’s latest developer survey , the majority said the greatest challenge to their productivity is a distracting work environment. Here’s how we explained it in our guide on How to Become a More Productive Software Engineer. What causes distraction?

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

After the exam is over, you will have a survey. Even the engineers, hardware engineer, software engineer, mechanical engineer. Now you’re thinking, how about mechanical engineer I just said. Agile has been- they are in software industry primarily. That is for the survey of the exam.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It also promotes best practices in software engineering and provides educational materials to help candidates improve their skills. The solution: Simple survey tools Survey tools are the perfect solution for collecting feedback from new candidates. Candidate feedback is important.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The 15th State of Agile Survey reported SAFe to be the most popular framework at 37%. Software Engineer. Eleven years ago, the world wouldn’t have believed Dean Leffingwell if he had told that Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) would be revolutionary in the next decade. Scrum Master. 90,000 – 100,000. Agile Coach. 110,000 – 135,000.

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