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 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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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. Be creative in how you present all the information to grab and retain the attention of potential clients.

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Wrike

JUNE 3, 2015

Workers have to be paid for more time, so your estimated budget goes over. Now, when I create projects I estimate 3-5 situations that could delay the project and how to deal with those situations and allot time for whichever would take the longest time to recover. ” —Trevor Ewen, Senior Software Engineer, Neosavvy.

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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. Most engineers and developers are too optimistic by nature when they give estimates of work that needs to be done. The corporate world is ruthless.

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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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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

Its simplicity and ease of implementation has made it the most popular version of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) for software engineering and IT projects. Royce is attributed for the first known description of the process, the first known presentation is attributed to Herbert D. Cost estimation. Inappropriate.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This presentation is showing up again. 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.

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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. You’ll be able to concentrate on the present and gain perspective regarding the future, all while limiting your interaction with past activities that are no longer important. Toptal’s TopTracker.

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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." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 13, 2018

Estimation locks down choices early through upfront t decision making, #NoEstimates preserves options. This is the same paradigm of Agile software development where responding to change over following the plan is part of the original manifesto. Aligning Software Investment Decisions with the Markets ," Hakan Erdogmus. "

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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 NE advocates don't ask or answer these questions.

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Paymo App

JULY 16, 2018

For some project planning tools, set other details such as workflow, billing method, hours estimate, and more. For instance, if you don’t have a technical background, reach out to your software engineers. Estimate costs. When it comes to estimation, you can’t really use project planning software accurately.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Is this normal?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This presentation is showing up again. When it first appeared, I thought, the author needed to do some more research because most of the principles presented here are erroneous in principle. Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then you're presented another slide on page 21 saying. Not likely.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Almost impossible?

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

In this case, project planning boils down to identifying project scope, estimates of time and costs, and setting milestones. In the end, you need requirements that software engineers will understand. They are present, but they don’t prevent people from using the application. Questionaries and Surveys. Document Analysis.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Like all MPUG webinars, a recording of this session will be posted to mpug.com shortly after the live presentation ends, and all MPUG members can watch the recordings at any time and still be eligible to earn the PDU credit. Kyle: Do you have any questions during today’s presentation? Fletcher Hearns: Great. Is it Fletcher?

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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

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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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

This presentation, we’ll be discussing, monitoring and controlling requirements. Again, hopefully by the end of this presentation, you’ll be able to answer these. Well, hopefully before the end of this presentation, you’ll be able to answer those questions. Secondly, what is requirements traceability?

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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

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. Even the engineers, hardware engineer, software engineer, mechanical engineer.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

Like all MPUG webinars, recording of this session will be posted to mpug.com shortly after the live presentation ends. Kyle: If you have any questions during today’s presentation, please send those over at any time using the chat question box on the go to webinar control panel. Oops, [inaudible 00:03:23].

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

requires making estimates) ? Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 14, 2025

Or if they spent the day perfecting a few presentation slides that led to a multi-million dollar deal closure? For example, software engineers spend only 32% of their time writing code and about 70% on testing, operational, and management tasks. Are your task estimates accurate? Get your project management in order.

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Teamweek

JULY 12, 2024

ML plays a critical cybersecurity role by identifying potential threats and exploits (weak spots in company software). Engineers can plug those gaps to keep data safe. Both are machine learning models: classification assigns categories, while regression estimates values within a range. Anomaly detection.

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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. Such data must be designed to exercise the application appropriately, and not merely reflect patterns of data that happen to be present in production this month.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We dive deep into the latest reports, and present expert insights from hiring managers in tech to explore 2025s job market in more detail. This trend continued into 2024, with an estimated 95,000 tech layoffs. But entry-level software engineer jobs easily replaceable by AI, and roles in other areas, remain at risk of lay-offs.

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