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.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Earned Value Management (EVM) A systematic approach to project performance measurement assessing schedule and cost performance. Product Backlog A prioritized list of features, enhancements, and fixes for a product that needs to be accomplished and is often used in Agile product development.

Development Team Review 148

Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. It includes developing and standardizing processes and enforcing standardized templates, methodologies, and tools across all projects, ensuring a consistent approach to project planning and execution.

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PMO Government Governance 2014 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.

Software Development 28

Software Development Software Developers Software Review Software 28

Herding Cats

MAY 12, 2018

This quote is typically the basis of proposing agile software development over traditional software development. In the product development world, the funding, recording of revenue, management of staffing at the financial level is managed as a Project. It’s impossible to gather all requirements in beginning 4.

Agile 44

Agile Finance Software Developers Software Development 44

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

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.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

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. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

We can estimate the total cost, total duration, and the probability that all the Features will be delivered on the program we are working for the US Government. Or ANY software project for that matter. In the project domain, an estimate is a calculated approximation of some desired measurement. First a definition.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The 2008 mortgage crisis for example (although many did an made lots of money), the government didn't. Software Development execution and modeling is Microeconomics not Macro. The author of quote read a Taleb book on Black Swans and assumes those Black Swans are in software development. taken from [3]).

Software Review 34

Software Review Estimate Technical Review Software Developers 34

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What dos Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? 4] Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for S oftware Development. [5]

Transportation 39

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

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

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For software, this can be value produced (assuming we have a unit of measure for that value in the for of effectiveness, performance, key performance parameters, or technical performance measures ). It can be the cost, schedule, and technical performance measures of the software project.

Closing 28

Closing Estimate Controlling Process 28

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 Estimate 28

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Audit: The process of analyzing a project to ensure that it is being governed as intended. Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM): An agile software development methodology that uses an iterative, incremental approach to project execution. cost of work performed - ACWP) and estimated cost at completion (ETC).

Underperforming Technical Team 60

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Software Review 60

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

JUNE 9, 2018

With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What dos Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? 4] Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for S oftware Development. [5]

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

There is no way out of this for any non-trivial software development project. Allen School of Computer Science Software Engineering Course . And just as a reminder, all those interdependencies have random connections depending on the process flow, random uncertainties - reducible and irreducible - that create risk.

Underperforming Technical Team 32

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

There is no way out of this for any non-trivial software development project. Allen School of Computer Science Software Engineering Course . And just as a reminder, all those interdependencies have random connections depending on the process flow, random uncertainties - reducible and irreducible - that create risk.

Underperforming Technical Team 28

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 28

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Government – Federal. Government – City/State/Local. Implement/enhance performance measurement process – 39%. [13]. Why a Majority of Business and IT Teams Anticipate Their Software Development Projects Will Fail. 116,100. . 113,000. . Information/. Technology. 107,200. . Construction/. Engineering.

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.

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59