PM Basics

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Do you want to see a project budget example? We’ll review the project budget example in just a minute. I need accurate estimates. Moreover, in the project budget example below, we’ll be using work packages and deliverables to sum up costs. You can guess and make the high-level estimation that has a bullet-proof buffer.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Reflecting on Two Decades of Agile Over 20 years ago, while working as a Software Engineer on an Air Defense System, I found myself in a traditional waterfall context. A recent example of this is the criticism offered to Story Point Estimation.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 13, 2022

The term “Developer” seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Hence you may notice tickets queueing in the code-review-column, for example. For example, the team might also consider who will be pairing with whom on what task. So don’t waste your time on that.

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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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Herding Cats

MARCH 23, 2017

In the estimating business, like many things in project management, there is confusion about principles, practices, and processes. Here's an example used by the #NoEstimates advocates. A good estimation approach should provide estimates that are within 25% of the actual results, 75% of the time. Dunsmore and V.Y.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 4, 2016

When we hear, we can't estimate this because we've never done this before. Or estimating is hard - meaning it's hard for me , and I can't possibly estimate when I don't know how. Or my favorite estimates are a waste, we need to start coding to produce value , these are examples of solving problems from scratch. .

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

And choosing from the many different project management software types can be quite a challenge. To make it simpler for you, we’ve compiled this list of 21 different types of project management software and example tools for each type. Types of project management software based on the use case. Example: Toggl Plan.

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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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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

They’re often expected to help establish software engineering tools, standards, and processes like code reviews and testing strategies. For example, they are expected to find a business need for an upcoming project and sanity check the technical implications of working it into your current roadmap.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. There is no discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. illities are a waste.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2016

Elliott could provide answers to these questions to our clients, when he suggests that estimates are worthless. . How many more working demos will be coming before we can go live with the software I'm paying you to build? Software Engineering is a Verb. Related articles. GAO Reports on ACA Site. Closed Loop Control.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2018

We can make decisions in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of that decision on our probability of success. is an example of an Ontological Fallacy. Any criticism of the NO Estimates statement is met with being blocked from the discussion. See, the preacher, he encourages your capacity for illusion.

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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. The likelihood of a failure for example. All estimates have precision and accuracy. First, let's establish a principle. One starting point is the value at risk.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? What would be the evidence that we could make decisions in the presence of uncertanty without estimating the impacts and outcomes of those decisions? . Start here.

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Productivity Land

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

According to some reports, an estimated 32.6 Those from other fields—from HR and software engineering to accounting and legal services—are also finding opportunities to build thriving careers from home. For example, if you want to offer web development services, create your own website first.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We have gone an extra mile to illustrate various real life use cases and examples where waterfall is implemented, and how one can use nTask to further simplify that process – so on and so forth. Benington gave a presentation about the development of software for SAGE at Symposium on advanced programming methods for digital computers.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

For example, about which software to buy, which Features in the development backlog should be implemented next, what prices to charge for products and services. Software development is an exercise in microeconomics, since it deals with limited resources - time, cost, and what value is produced in exchange for the time and money.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. The supposed evidence in the presentation, that estimating "does not work" starts with the Chaos Report. Principle #3 - Believe the Data, Not The Estimates .

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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. Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. Matlab is one example. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis. This is the foundation for estimates. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If, for example, a project manager believes a member of his or her team is a fast and effective worker, each time that team member works fast and effectively or is told by a colleague about the work that has been done fast and effectively, the project manager will consider his or her belief to be well-founded.

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Paymo App

JANUARY 25, 2018

By precisely measuring employee time records, project managers will be able to make better time estimates for future projects. Examples of time trackers. If you’re a software engineer, designer, or finance expert, you might already be using this platform to find clients. Toptal’s TopTracker.

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Herding Cats

MAY 19, 2017

It is popular to claim we've never done this before, so how can we possibly estimate the cost and schedule. If it truly hasn't been done before, then the software project is likely to be an inventing new physics project. In that world, we still made estimates of the cost to design, build, and operate the experiment.

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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. For example in "Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?" All estimates are evil.

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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

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. The #NoEstimates Finale - Pat Richard wrote the blog I wanted to.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Read more: Examples of Lessons Learned in Construction Projects. Victorine Ghobeira , a Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager at Dataquest, says that “preventing a lack of resource starts when defining and estimating activities and leads to creating a realistic schedule. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. Page 22 is an example of a cone that needs to be adhered to for the program to stay on schedule and cost. But is can be ANY variance for the program, including confidence in the estimates of future performance - cost, schedule, or technical performance.

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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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Paymo App

JULY 16, 2018

There are some dedicated tools though that you can use to partially plan your projects (for example Gantt Chart software). Most project managers will be interested in a complete project management software to help them manage a project from start to finish even when only looking for a project planning tool. Estimate costs.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow, through some unstated process of correction or prevention, fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. TO DO in Rally, Remaining Estimate in Jira, and other fields in Team Foundation Server and VersionOne. Not likely.

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

So, I will bring more clarity to this topic and will show examples of SDLC below. When I googled “software development life cycle definition” I found different variants. Examples of Software Development Life Cycles. In the end, you need requirements that software engineers will understand. Document Analysis.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Fletcher Hearns: And as an example, for resources, you don’t know resources name, you don’t know who’s going to be assigned to the project. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. Fletcher Hearns: Here’s another fairly good example.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's start with a clear and concise description of the problem of successfully managing projects in the presence of uncertainty: Accurate software cost and schedule estimations are essential for non-trivial software projects. As a software project progresses, more information about the project is known.

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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). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons.

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Wrike

APRIL 5, 2021

Software development has changed radically in recent years, so why are our processes still the same? Release management is a modern solution to the unique challenges software engineers and project managers face today. This software project management method covers everything from ideation to release. Estimate velocity.

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