Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

There is a discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. In our domain of engineered systems, there is a broad range of problems, complex issues, approaches to solving problems. In all cases, we start our work with.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 13, 2022

The term “Developer” seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Note: Of course, the Scrum Guide does not mention the ‘work item age.’ Too much estimating: The Developers even estimate sub-tasks. Read more : Estimates Are Useful, Just Ditch the Numbers.).

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

They’re often expected to help establish software engineering tools, standards, and processes like code reviews and testing strategies. Estimate the time, effort, and resources for an entire project. Help devs come up with effort estimates and feed those back into the overall estimation. How websites work.

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Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It requires you to properly scope projects , break them down into tasks , estimate time and effort , and know which teammates are best suited and available for each one. You need constant feedback from the people doing the work to understand whether you’re taking on too much work, improperly estimating tasks, or pushing the scope.

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MPUG

MARCH 9, 2020

As a software engineer; however, I was able to easily understand MSP, and it did not take me long to create a schedule for my project. Try not to think about the dates, duration estimates, or any other task attributes in the beginning. Of course, I have just touched upon basic features in this article. Conclusion.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 9, 2017

We must be about to choosing rationally among risk-taking courses of action, rather than plunge into uncertainty on the basis of hunch, hearsay, or incomplete experience, no matter how meticulously quantified. Peter Drucker (1975) Management (From The Principles of Software Engineering , Chapter 6, Tom Glib, 1988).

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Binfire

MARCH 13, 2017

It is the job of the project manager to foresee risks, create an impact estimation and define how to respond to the issues which will arise throughout project life cycle. Of course getting feedback is a good sign of leadership, but you need to evaluate all feedback you get and see if they fit your project’s scope and road-map.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? An estimate is. It's a fallacy.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. An empirical proof of effectiveness is, of course, a test suite. But there are software systems where testing is necessary but not sufficient. .

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This of course is a misinformed and sometime intentionally misinformed idea used to cloud the conversation. Agile is certainty more common these days and has moved to Software Intensive System of Systems where I work, but IID has been around a long time. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." This, of course, is a fallacy on all levels. The first thing to do is NOT fall for the fallacy that NOT Estimating will fix the behavior of the bad manager. Let's look at what an estimate is.

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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

As a graduate student (twice in two different fields) we always started the first semester with a design of experiments course. In this course, we learned about statistics beyond the physics and engineering (systems engineering) needs and how to sort out bad data from good data. You're bad at estimating - WHY?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. Estimates are data.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. And of course, those are biased, filtered are fed back into System One at a later date, creating more bias to the decision-making process in the future. A final Thought . 9, January 2011. [6]

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The conjecture that we can make decisions in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impacts of those decisions is without any principles that can be tested beyond personal anecdotes of I know people who spend other peoples money without providing estimates. We need to learn how to predict with credible methods.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 9, 2017

DeMacro made this post, which has been picked up by the agile community to mean estimating is a waste. . Implying there is no need to measure the project performance and by implication no need to estimate. This, of course, ignores the need to know how much of that $50M minus the $1M am I willing to loose?

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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. There are databases for Function Points .

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute. Estimates of cost, schedule, technical performance on the left have a lower probability of being precise and accurate than estimates on the right.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

In all engineering worlds, from software engineering to bending metal for money, there is really nothing new under the sun. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments. maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help. Almost impossible?

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Workzone

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s specifically built for technicl creatives—such as game developers, UX designers and software engineers. Geared towards engineers, Planio has issue tracking, version control, help desk capabilities, wikis and chat capabilities. ProductPlan Feeling stuck when charting a course? Pricing: $6.80-$12.75/month

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

Of late, Cone of Uncertainty has become the mantra of No Estimates advocates claiming that data is needed BEFORE the Cone is of any use. This is course is NOT the correct use of the Cone. Shrinking The Cone Of Uncertainty With Continuous Assessment For Software Team Dynamics In Design And Development,” Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn,” Ph.D.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. And of course, those are biased, filtered are fed back into System One at a later date, creating more bias to the decision-making process in the future. A final Thought . 9, January 2011. [6]

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Wrike

APRIL 28, 2023

Use project management software to estimate project timelines and identify potential bottlenecks. Providing Continuous Learning Opportunities Online courses, seminars, and conferences are excellent ways to provide team members with access to continuous learning opportunities.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute (in this post, cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Economics of Software Development. Estimating Probabilistic Outcomes?

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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 BLUE bars are the probabilistic ranges of the current estimate date.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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 BLUE bars are the probabilistic ranges of the current estimate date.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy, since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. TO DO in Rally, Remaining Estimate in Jira, and other fields in Team Foundation Server and VersionOne. Estimates are data.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

This always takes us back the coupling and cohesion discussion all of us who were Software Engineers in the 1980's . In the presence of uncertainty, estimates is needed to make decisions. There is no way out of this for any non-trivial software development project. This information comes from the Paul G.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Kyle: And welcome to Part 2 of MPUG’s Project Performance Measurement course. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. I know I’m going to have a senior software engineer and I want him working on these tasks [inaudible 00:12:15] who that is.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For example, prioritizing the product backlog or refining the product backlog, doing an own value management with respect to the product backlog or estimating, or having the various project accounting principles with respect to product management. Then of course, Scrum Masters, Kanban Flow Masters They can also go for this certification.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

This always takes us back the coupling and cohesion discussion all of us who were Software Engineers in the 1980's . In the presence of uncertainty, estimates is needed to make decisions. There is no way out of this for any non-trivial software development project. This information comes from the Paul G.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Project tracking software helps you: Understand if you’re on track to meet task, milestone, and project deadlines Time tracking Compare estimated vs. actual efforts and costs Adjust plans quickly if you’re not on schedule or within the budget. And almost all such tools are built for software project teams.

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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

Of course, there are other aspects to this requirements planning that we talked about in the first presentation. The backlog is the list of prioritized and estimated user stories. And that’s a term used to describe the subtle way that requirements grow in perceptibly during the course of the project.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

Kyle: Hello, and welcome to part one of MPUGs Project Performance Measurement course. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. Individual contributor team, lead section, lead project manager, program manager, director of engineering.

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