Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. Either a Cadence Release Plan or a Capabilities Release Plan. These describe the increasing maturity of the project's artifacts. There are not specific to Agile Software Development. But here's how they are connected. Capture All Activities.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release paradigm, is a flow-based approach. The variability of the development work is minimized through the planned cadence. Focusing on meeting the needs of the customer or market is key to success in the Cadence approach.

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Herding Cats

JULY 27, 2017

We were speaking a Homeland Security yesterday on Agile development in the Federal Government and there was a senior director who brought up a paradigm that resonated with me. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Then those words are just hollow buzz words. . Related articles. Deadlines Always Matter.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

The answers to each of these questions require making estimates in the presence of uncertainty. No Point Estimate of Cost or Duration can be Correct. The use of point estimates for durations and costs is the first impulse in an organization low on the project management maturity scale.

Risk Management 42

Risk Management Risk Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 42

Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Herding Cats: Capabilities Release or Cadence Release. Estimating and Making Decisions in Presence of Uncertainty. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. IT Risk Management.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Meaning to say creating value, organizational governance and systems, functions associated with projects, the project environment, and product management considerations all provide the context for how project management could be conducted. What’s deliverable, cadence, project phase? It makes sense.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

And so if you show up and like you say, “Hey, I want to adopt Agile,” but you know, you’re not familiar with the strategies or Agile governance strategies or such, right? The roles, the ceremonies, the artifacts, the cadences, all those different things that we model as implementation details. Are we doing reviews?

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Agile Technical Review Government Governance 62

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Software Review 60

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. The Role of Governance Now, this is what I think about when I think about governance.

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Government Governance SCRUM Agile 62

The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The business case estimates the projects costs and benefits. Importantly, it also defines governance, oversight, and management review processes. The completion date was moved out to incorporate the realistic estimates. A regular cadence and defined process for measuring performance against the plan is required.

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Aerospace Cadence Performance Measurement 2025 78

Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

And so, from how we do governance and how we do project planning and how we do organizational structure, all those kinds of things, right, so there’s this big hop. Because those are the things that fundamentally get in the way how we govern, right, how we deal with cross cutting concerns. Backlogs becomes governance.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

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. . Putting these guides and BOK's to work for the benefit of the enterprise is the role of Project Governance.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement 2003 Underperforming Technical Team 42

Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. During this phase, there’s a lot of box-ticking and governance to ensure everyone understands their ongoing requirements. But there’s a problem.

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Development Team Review 2030 Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 78

Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Plan Elements The Plan is like a book with three main sections: Execution Parameters establish how the project will be managed along with the approach, required lifecycle phases, and governance procedures. Governance All projects require oversight and governance. Project Baselines and Other Performance Metrics.

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Planning Technical Review Government Governance 52

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

High WIP levels and failure to recognize delivery capacity, identify scarce resources, and consider estimates led to intense pressure to deliver late in the project schedule. The shift to a product focus affects all of the three main “things” that we talk about: Structure, Governance, and Metrics.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Power BI gets refreshed every month so it has a high cadence. At the top we’ve got China then India, and we’ve got a UN continental region, a UN statistical subregion, a population estimated, obviously at 2018, and one of 2019. So the latest information that UK government published was yesterday, 2nd of February.

Software Review 52

Software Review 2020 Risk Management Government 52

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

This is the basis of the Agile Product Roadmap and Product Release Plan (either cadence or capability based). Five Estimating Pathologies and Their Corrective Actions. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. The PMB is developed and evolves as the project develops and evolves. Of course not.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. The same rule of thumb applies to other governance reviews, as well. ” They asked me how they could streamline the workflow and move to a more “agile” delivery cadence.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Development Team Review 77

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

And if we can really take this first principle of encapsulation over orchestration, if we can take that idea all the way from the top of the organization all the way down and create these strategies across with minimal, lightweight, flow based governance empowered teams at the bottom right, then we’ve got a shot for.

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