The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Business Analysis A process in which an individual identifies business needs, defines solutions and facilitates change to meet organizational goals. Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e., Feasibility Study An analysis of a project’s viability.

Development Team Review 148

Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities.

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Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement 2003 Government 42

NimbleWork

APRIL 16, 2024

Whether you’re overseeing a software development project or managing a construction project, understanding the key project management processes, techniques and strategies are essential for achieving success. “Projections indicate that the global project management software market is poised to reach $15.08

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Process 2030 Software Review Estimate 52

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. probably not.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

Performance Measurement Baseline. This creates a point of comparison of all the other baselines to evaluate project performance. Techniques/Analysis/Tools. This network analysis technique uses the Monte Carlo simulation to formulate project duration estimates and give a probabilistic approach to visualize network logic.

Underperforming Technical Team 111

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Risk Management Defining 111

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. This is a common problem in low maturity development organizations.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. In Earned Value Management paradigm, progress is always measured as physical percent complete. Have a threshold or objective value, Characterize major drivers of Performance, Are consider Critical to Customer.

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Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2017

The common definition of the Definition of Done in agile software development is (mostly from the Scrum Alliance and other official Scrum sites): A simple list of activities (coding, comments, unit testing, integration, release notes, design documents, etc.) Do they characterize the major drivers of performance?

Software Review 28

Software Review Technical Review Performance Measurement Estimate 28

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

It covered identifying requirements, interconnecting tasks, resources, planned values, actual values, baselines, performance measures, forecast techniques and timesheets. A tiny snapshot of the analysis that the different software tools went through. The Future: Software Supporting Faster and Iterative Working.

Software Review 150

Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Approach Analysis : A technique to analyze the various methods that can be used to meet the project's goals. Approach Analysis is used during the Planning phase of each project. Critical Path Method: Also called Critical Path Analysis, CPM is an algorithm for scheduling project activities. Else, the project has a budget deficit.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Then there is some analysis. Landmark’s measure of success over these three years had much more to do with customer satisfaction and market share than with meeting knowingly aggressive targets. In all software development businesses, showing up late and over budget has a direct impact on the bottom line. . 37–48, 2007.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

Two Books in the Spectrum of Software Development. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. There, now we've got Principles, Processes, and Practices all connected. Related articles. We've Been Doing This for 20 Years. Applying the Right Ideas to the Wrong Problem. Managing in Presence of Uncertainty.

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Process Engineering Software Developers Software Development 53

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . IEEE Software, March-April 2009, pp.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM). IEEE Software, March-April 2009, pp.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . IEEE Software, March-April 2009, pp.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

Since there has been some confusion around the CoU in the past, about whether it can be reduced, whether there is credible data showing it is valid or not, whether those claiming it can't be reduced have any Root Cause Analysis as to why it wasn;t reduced, I thought I'd included the references we're using.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In software development, those managing the project have some understanding the market forces (from their marketing departments), the technology (from their engineering department), and how to manage in the presence of Aleatory and Epistemic risk (the managers running a successful firm). Software development is a non-ergodic process.

Software Review 34

Software Review Estimate Technical Review Software Developers 34

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM). There can be cost and schedule performance measures as well. Economics of Software Development. Herding Cats: Economics of Software Development. Related articles. Of Course We Can!

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. Software Cost Estimation Model,"Barry Boehm, et al.,

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2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

All making things smaller dos is show that you're late, over budget, and what you're building (Technical Performance Measures) doesn't work faster. Probabilistic Risk Analysis: Foundations and Methods , Tim Bedford and Roger Cooke, Cambridge University Press, 2009. Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice , Jean?Paul

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The book that contains that paper and provides the specific approach to modeling the future is Statistics for Experimenters: An Introduction to Design, Data Analysis, and Model Building , Georg E. Past performance data or the Model of the needed Future performance of the project? . Performance Analysis and Prediction .

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Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Top 5 PPM Functions: Portfolio tracking & performance monitoring – 75%. Portfolio analysis, project selection, & prioritization – 65%. Implement/enhance performance measurement process – 39%. [13]. Why a Majority of Business and IT Teams Anticipate Their Software Development Projects Will Fail.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. Jeff, a big MPUG welcome back. Not really.

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PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59