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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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 22, 2022

Rather than estimating a single completion target, one effective tactic is to provide teams the ability to report a range of possible completion dates. New York, NY, Penguin Random House, 2014. The Procrastination Cure: 7 Steps to Stop Putting Life Off. Pompton Plains, NJ, Career Press, 2011. 3 Levitin, Daniel J.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 29, 2016

Software review: Simplestimate [2016] Find out more about how to make estimating simple with this software review of Simplestimate. Software review: Comindware Project [2014] General information Name: Comindware Project Vendor: Comindware Hosting options: Web hosted and locally hosted Cost:Cloud service starts at $29.99

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 27, 2016

Software review: Simplestimate [2016] Find out more about how to make estimating simple with this software review of Simplestimate. Software review: Comindware Project [2014] General information Name: Comindware Project Vendor: Comindware Hosting options: Web hosted and locally hosted Cost:Cloud service starts at $29.99

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Scoro

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Founded in: 2014 Average customer ratings: G2 : 4.7 (45 Avaza Founded in: 2014 Average customer ratings: G2: 4.6 (337 Use CMAP Consulting’s budget matrix to create clear cost estimates for large projects. 5 $26/user/month Productive.io Digital agencies and software firms focusing on real-time profitability tracking 4.7/5

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Integrated Master Plan: The Foundation of Program Success , College of Performance Management, May 21, 2014. Big Data Meets Earned Value Management , ICEAA 2015 Professional Development & Traning Workshop , June 10-13, 2014. Using Technical Performance Measures to Inform Earned Value Management , IPM 2014.

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Paymo App

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Kunder uses Paymo since 2014 to track their developers’ time, plan tasks and schedule their workload. This improves the communication between the operations and commercial department, as they are both on the same page when drafting project estimates. Users get scheduled in advance, having thus a big picture over the team’s usage.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Deciding how much precision and accuracy is needed for a credible estimate is critical to the success of that decision.

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Scoro

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Avaza Founded in : 2014 Average customer ratings : G2 : 4.6 (337 It is also great to be able to track time spent on tasks for billing and estimating.” There’s no free trial available, but the company does offer a demo. 337 reviews); Capterra : 4.6 (453 per month Basic: $23.95 per month Business: $47.95

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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

New items are added to the backlog by the product owner as they are identified and placed in the backlog according to the product owner’s estimate of their priority. The backlog generally is never completed. You must be able to mollify competing business stakeholder groups who want their requests higher on the backlog.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Estimated Project-Oriented Job Openings 2010-2020: . Inadequate cost estimates – 29%. Inaccurate task time estimate – 27%. InformationWeek: Enterprise Project Management Survey 2014. Project Management Institute: Pulse of the Profession 2014 – The High Cost of Low Performance. March, 2014. 8,153,340. .

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Resource Guru

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Quintin estimates that the move to Resource Guru is saving them between 5-6 hours a month compared to their previous scheduling system. Fifty Eight are a company with a serious mission. Resource Guru has helped us better focus and manage our time through a better picture of what work is already planned vs what is coming in our pipeline.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 28, 2020

Benefits are much harder to estimate but it can still be done, and experienced companies are able to map projected benefits, albeit within wider ranges than for project costs, whilst avoiding the natural tendency to over-estimate those benefits. Schedule and Cost Control Starts with Good Estimates.

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PM Times

APRIL 7, 2021

2014; Lessard et al., Not only were they able to evaluate complexity, but they also used the data to estimate resources and project duration in a matter of minutes. One can safely estimate that at least 10% of the time will be needed by the department managers to understand the high-level requirements. & Sense, A.,

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2019

If only we would create more accurate estimates…. In hindsight, I already started writing the paper “ The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master ” around 2011–2014, although it was published via Scrum.org years later. A Gantt-chart, no need to read the details…. During that period, writing became an important activity.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

However, while this book covers basics like estimating and planning projects, where it shines is in covering the soft skills of project management. Published date: 2014. Published date: 2014. The Lazy Project Manager gives great insights and anecdotes into how to get more out of the people you work with. Author: Ryan Holiday.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As stated in PMI’s Pulse of the Profession® (2014) , inadequate project requirements are the cause of project failure in 37% of organizations. PMs can use this knowledge to estimate the time needed for accomplishing tasks, order them, and allocate resources adequately. People won’t take you seriously if you don’t understand them.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A Estimation of Long?Term 1, March 2014. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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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. Each of the categories operates in the presence of uncertainty and requires that estimates be made about the probability, conseqeunce of the resutling risk.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Continuous Integration: Verification and Validation in an Agile Environment FAA Verification and Validation Summit 2014," Nick Bartlow, Ph.D. When managing any project as Risk Managers as Tim Lister suggested, we need to make estimates in the presence of these uncertainties as well. Each of these can be found with Google.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

requires making estimates) ? A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A Estimation of Long?Term 1, March 2014. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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Paymo App

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Improve time estimates: You can use p reviously tracked time entries as the main indicator for your future projects. Through them, you’ll make better estimates for following tasks and set more accurate deadlines for similar projects. It’s even better if these two features are part of the same native app to avoid data clutter.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Cost and schedule growth for federal programs is created by unrealistic technical performance expectations, unrealistic cost and schedule estimates, inadequate risk assessments, unanticipated technical issues, and poorly performed and ineffective risk management, all contributing to program technical and programmatic shortfalls. What is Risk?

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. But is can be ANY variance for the program, including confidence in the estimates of future performance - cost, schedule, or technical performance. This usually results in a project's actual costs far outrunning the optimistic estimates and creating a large overrun.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

January 2014, Homeland Security Studies & Analysis Institute. Systems Engineering for Software Intensive Projects Using Agile Methods, Larri Rosser, Phyllis Marbach, Gundars Osvalds, and David Lempia, Systems Engineering Conference, Washington DC (SEDC), 2014. . . Related articles. IT Risk Management.

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Ganttic

OCTOBER 6, 2020

But they can estimate when they'll have free resources to take on new projects. She's been working remotely in the tech space since 2014. By grouping their resources by specialty (designers, artists, writers, etc.) as well as who is full-time, freelance, and part-time, they not only have an overview of everyone's workload.

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Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2017

The other statistical issue is the chart showing #Noestimates versus other types of estimates. But the sample space of the total population of projects with #Noestmates as their estimating technique is only 3% of the total population. Maybe 11 to 12 for No Estimates and maybe some less than 15 for Light Weight Scrum, say 13. .

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Some feel that the cone does not provide any value for the work they do and does not match the reducing uncertainty in their estimates. First, the Cone of Uncertainty is a Principle used to define the needed reduction in the variances of estimates on Programs. Remember Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister.

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Resource Guru

APRIL 4, 2023

But without any revised estimates or proposed plan, I felt stuck. My guess in retrospect was that they too didn’t have faith in the plan or the estimates. I felt like things were improving, however, every time I spoke to the Lead Developer, I could tell he didn’t share my confidence. I heard him.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JULY 18, 2019

Of course, such mega-failures are more interesting that minor-failures, but most experienced project managers might find an echo within their own projects of examples such as that of SNCF who ordered 2000 new trains in 2014, only to find that they did not fit all the stations. The Project Canvas.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Of course, all three of these are operating in the presence of uncertainty and therefore require estimates to be made. Estimates of the aleatory and epistemic uncertainties that create risk to the delivered Value need to be handled. All three pieces of information are needed.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Estimation is part of project management. . The most important estimates for the project manager are related to time and cost. . Since it is easier to estimate small tasks, these estimates are often calculated and performed as point estimates, for example, a task will take 3 days. My proposal is don't estimate.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. A #Noestimates advocate makes the claim that having a ±10% accuracy for estimates of cost and duration is a dangerous thing. Define the probabilistic ranges of the work in a single point estimate manner. 6, No 5, October 2014. [3]

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

But when some statement is made about risk, estimating, performance modeling, or the like - always ask for references. Agile Risk Management and Scrum , Alan Moran, Institute for Agile Risk Management, 2014. I'm not expecting anyone to read all these books. or the many 100's of papers on risk management we use as well. No References?

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

No Credible Decision Can Be Made in the Presence of Uncertainty with making Estimates of the Impact of those Decisions. 5] How to Measure Anything : Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business , Douglas Hubbard, John Wiley & Sons, 2014. [6] And of course. Stevens, Science , Vol. June 7, 1946, pp. 677-680. . [5]

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The previous approaches to project performance management and production of the Estimate to Complete and Estimate at Completion make use of past performance. Estimating Models for Program Management," Norman Womer and Jeff Cman, Final Technical Reports, N00014-00-1-0280, Unversity of Mississippi, 2003. 1-11, January 2014.

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