Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Working as a developer at Data Sciences Ltd in the UK I wrote a program to manage our work tasks on a government project. My project manager saw it one day and two interesting things happened. He did not chastise me for working on a side project of developing a visual work tracker rather than working on the client project.

2006 68

2006 2012 Risk Management Risk 68

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. 3, August 2006, pp. Project manager) Losoi, H., Flyvbjerg, B.,

Software Development 34

Software Development Software Developers Risk Management Risk 34

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APRIL 16, 2019

Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Governance (#Governance). Six Business System Rule - defines the assessment of the integrated business systems for Federal procurement and their integrity in providing information to the Government contracting office. . Product Development (#ProdDev).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement 2003 Governance 42

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MARCH 11, 2017

Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Federal Government, in support of OMB Circular A-123.”. Joint Agency Cost Schedule Risk and Uncertainty Handbook,” Naval Center for Cost Analysis, 12 March 2014.

2003 46

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AUGUST 22, 2018

We were on of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . 2] " Wronger than Wrong ," Scientific American, November 2006. [3] 1] " Briefing: Not Even Wrong ".

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JANUARY 23, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . 2] " Wronger than Wrong ," Scientific American, November 2006. [3]

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

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FEBRUARY 9, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . 2] " Wronger than Wrong ," Scientific American, November 2006. [3]

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