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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Paymo App

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Kunder started out in 2013 as a three person Software as a Service (SaaS) company with one idea: to provide companies with feedback tools for their clients. They soon realized though that their prospects weren’t interested in such platforms, yet they were in need for high-quality tailored software development.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Estimated Project-Oriented Job Openings 2010-2020: . Inadequate cost estimates – 29%. Inaccurate task time estimate – 27%. Why a Majority of Business and IT Teams Anticipate Their Software Development Projects Will Fail. InformationWeek: Enterprise Project Management Survey 2014. March, 2014.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. “A IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Estimation of Long?Term 255, April 2010.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 15, 2017

I've been in the software development business for 30 years, mostly in the Software Intensive System of Systems world, where embedded systems are 100 times more prevalent than business, web and desktop systems. An Assessment of Avionics Software Development Practice: Justifications for an Agile Development Process," Geir K.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Software Development (#ASD). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams. Parametric Project Monitoring and Control - Earned Value is an approach to Performance measurement for monitoring and controlling the progress of software development projects.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

If you’re also interested in Agile project management, pair the PMBOK with the PMI’s new Agile Practice Guide or our own Guide on How to Pick the Software Development Process that’s Right For you. Published date: 2014. Published date: 2014. Project Management for Humans: Helping People Get Things Done.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. requires making estimates) ? Estimation of Long?Term

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. 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. This letter states.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

AHP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Saaty. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. This decision model for software development projects addressed: performance, cost, time, and risk. I came to AHP through a seminar by Dr. James T. A Cardinal number says how many of something there is.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. Is this normal?

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Can All This Formality Have Any Use in Modern Software Development? The notion that agile development is a free-for-all development of what ever the customer wants to produce next, with the customer identifying the next important thing to develop works just fine for de minimus projects. Related articles.

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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

APRIL 4, 2019

So here are some books, handbooks, and guides that sit on my shelf that are used pretty much all the time on the Software Intensive System of Systems we work on. But when some statement is made about risk, estimating, performance modeling, or the like - always ask for references. I'm not expecting anyone to read all these books.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. For software development starts with. maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help. Almost impossible?

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. These are classic examples from an author who is either unskilled, untrained, and inexperienced in estimating software development. I suspect the latter. .

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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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MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Kyle: John joined Barbecana as CLO in 2014, and assumed the role of President, and CEO in 2019. He has extensive experience of both project management, and software development. John Owen: First, let’s talk about the estimates that we’re using in our schedule. All right, we’ll go ahead and get started.

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MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Kyle: John joined Barbecana as CLO in 2014, and assumed the role of President, and CEO in 2019. He has extensive experience of both project management, and software development. John Owen: First, let’s talk about the estimates that we’re using in our schedule. All right, we’ll go ahead and get started.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Traditional development processes no longer cut it — IT teams must adopt dynamic ways to maintain current infrastructures while improving their workflows and systems to address changing market demands. Bimodal IT is a concept that was first introduced by leading global IT research firm Gartner in 2014. So, what is bimodal IT?

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Scoro

JANUARY 1, 2025

Productive Founded in: 2014 Average customer ratings: G2 : 4.7 (46 46 reviews); Capterra : 4.6 (82 82 reviews) Best for: All-in-one project and operations management Overview Productive is a comprehensive tool built for agencies.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Chicago, IL March 2018 Present Led a portfolio of projects valued at over $20M, including software development, infrastructure upgrades and cloud migration, delivering results on time and within budget. Created project timelines, tracked task completion and helped adjust schedules based on project needs.

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