nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

The United States government settled on the Waterfall Model as the model’s advantages perfectly fulfilled their requirements. The federal government insisted on engineering rigor and a superior quality product while maintaining great control over the final product. Cost estimation. Easy to estimate. Long term Projects.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most business departments have a set of standard operating procedures or guidelines that govern how we should respond to standard and even some not-so-standard occurrences we face throughout our workday. It starts with the organization and the governance practices and framework for that organization. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

When we hear about software development disasters and then hear that estimates are to blame, and NOT Estimating will somehow reduce or prevent these disasters, think again. ISO 31000:2009, ISO 17666:2016, and ISO 11231:2010 Risk is Uncertainty that Matters. If we're going to manage as adults , we're going to have to Estimate.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.

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MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

The project scope was changed by the owner, or the management, or you had unfortunate estimates of the time, and resources that would be required to complete particular steps in the schedule. John Owen: First, let’s talk about the estimates that we’re using in our schedule. It happens all too often.

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MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

The project scope was changed by the owner, or the management, or you had unfortunate estimates of the time, and resources that would be required to complete particular steps in the schedule. John Owen: First, let’s talk about the estimates that we’re using in our schedule. It happens all too often.

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Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 52

EarthPM

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Many executives embrace the conventional wisdom that mainstream investors care little about an organization’s performance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics. The reduction drove down production costs and helped sustain 20% annual growth between 2010 and 2014. Why should they?

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So we start with culture, maybe we go to practices and then all those teaming strategies and dependencies and governance and metrics and all that stuff that we struggle with all the time will just kind of work itself out. So, if anybody wants to stack, you can text the word CULTURE to 33777, and my team will send you the deck.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

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 beginning of a project, comparatively little is known about the product or work results, and so estimates are subject to large uncertainty.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

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 beginning of a project, comparatively little is known about the product or work results, and so estimates are subject to large uncertainty.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

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). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty. The BLUE bars are the probabilistic ranges of the current estimate date.

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Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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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. COSMIC Software Estimation Approach,” Alain Abran, ICEAA Workshop, Portland Oregon, June 6?9, Estimating Probable System Cost,” Stephen A. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? 255, April 2010. 24, 2010. “A Estimation of Long?Term Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty … and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean,” Phil Beenhouwer, The Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA), May 17, 2006. reducible and irreducible ?

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

requires making estimates) ? 255, April 2010. 24, 2010. “A Estimation of Long?Term Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty … and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean,” Phil Beenhouwer, The Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA), May 17, 2006. reducible and irreducible ?

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