Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2019

Also, organizations that embrace the whole digital product view still need help governing the ongoing process. They describe the factors at play and provide ideas for guidance around planning, funding, staffing and governance. I have written about #NoProjects a few times before: When will this software project ever be done.

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Alan Parker Blog

APRIL 21, 2024

Introduction Purpose The primary aim of infrastructure and platform management is to ensure that an organisation’s technological base, comprising hardware, software, networks, and facilities, is robust, efficient, and capable of meeting current and future needs.

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 25, 2024

From project management to coding and beyond, discover the solutions that can elevate your development process and empower your team to excel. What is Software Development Process? Software development is the comprehensive process of creating, designing, deploying, and maintaining software applications or systems.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 52

Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Do you know your organization’s project management maturity level? If not, it’s high time to change the situation: project management maturity has a direct impact on a company’s competitiveness and business success. . What is project management maturity exactly, and how to define its level?

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Probabilistic over Deterministic is standard estimating processes in every single book, paper, guideline, policy, and regulations governing the development in use of estimates in commercial (ITIL) and Government (all agency and GAO Estimating handbooks). IT Risk Management. Delivery Time over Development Time.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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Herding Cats

MAY 19, 2017

As well we made estimates of what information will be produced after spending the customers (in most cases the government is the customer) money. Quantitative Software Management (QSM). Q/P Management Group. Software Benchmarking Organization. Software Engineering Institute (SEI). IT Risk Management.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

We are a project management consulting company in the Baltimore Washington area. Background myself, I’ve been doing project program, PMO management for going on, I guess, 30 years now. By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. And in project management terminology, we must set the baseline.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You start selling software licenses, you disrupt the whole way of selling. The whole value chain beyond just the engineering piece gets disrupted. It might be telling the client, how do you de-risk all that? You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You start selling software licenses, you disrupt the whole way of selling. The whole value chain beyond just the engineering piece gets disrupted. It might be telling the client, how do you de-risk all that? You need to start having the software engineers that can code the data scientists that can analyze.

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Technical Review Software Review Engineering Infrastructure 62

Teamweek

AUGUST 1, 2023

Some of the most important data analyst skills include data analysis, statistical programming languages, data management, data visualization, good communication skills, machine learning and even Excel skills. The real difference is that a data scientist is usually more experienced and works with more complex data processes.

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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. Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. These principles originate in: .

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The beginning of all business critical software development projects is the point in time when performing organizations are least certain about the project, yet it is also the time when top management expects to be delivered project estimates that are very precise. 1, January 2011. "A 37–48, 2007.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We did an extensive analysis of various factors that influence waterfall project management. This helped us to simplify how nTask project management software can be used for solving such issues. Waterfall is a popular SDLC project management model. What Do You Need to Know about Waterfall Oriented Project Management?

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

“A Taxonomy of an IT Project Failure: Root Causes,” Walid Al-Ahmad, Et Al, International Management Review, Vol. Automated Root Cause Isolation of Performance Regressions during Software Development,” Christopher Heger, Jens Happer, and Roozbeh Farahbod, ICPE ’13, April 21?24, What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects?

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

Because of the limitations of resources, projects need to operate withing a world of limited resources, the uncertainties - both reducible and irreducible - that create risk, and the emerging attributes of all project work. Managing in the presence of uncertainty requires a Closed Loop Control process. No Adult Management.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Managing the Development of Large-Scale Software: Concepts and Techniques," Winston Royce, Proceedings, Wescon, August 1970. Iterative Enhancement: A Practical Technique for Software Development," Victor Basil and Albert Turner, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. IT Risk Management.

2003 38

2003 Software Engineering Manufacturing Engineering 38

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. Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. These principles originate in: .

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Whether you’re a small team of freelancers or a large agency, your company needs a project management tool that fits your processes like a glove. Before choosing a specific tool though, you need to decide on the type of project management software you need. Types of project management software based on the use case.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. The CoU is a build-to paradigm, where measures of the program's performance cumulative to date is used to inform the risk for future performance.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth. This community of program controls, cost analyst, earned value managers and program managers is accountable for providing information to decision makers on enterprise and complex projects and programs. IT Risk Management.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

After having worked for outsourcing, consultancy and product companies I believe that creating a place where people really trust each other is easier when software engineers and stakeholders are both part of the same organization. This is standard Product Management. Done by every Product Manager for every Product Company.

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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. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create risk to the success of the project. The Programmatic Management of the project.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments. Complexity Primer (Sandia).

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. Fletcher Hearns: Great, thank you Kyle.

Performance Measurement 52

Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Government Governance 52

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Define the risks - reducible and irreducible - to each Capability and their Features.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 27, 2024

Chances are, you're going to have a workstream of activity related to data management and data protection. Wherever you are in the world, ethical project management standards, and the implications of AI, require you to be on top of data protection principles. GDPR was a once-in-a-generation update of our data protection regulations.

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Risk Management PMO Risk Software Review 308

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

Risk interaction within systems and subsystems, between functional and physical elements, can also be modeled with DSM. DSM models interacting risks in a graphical representation produce numerical simulations of the risk and impacts on the probability of program success. Traditional risk models cannot model loops.

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Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

This is called Software Engineering Economics. IT Risk Management. Knowing the probabilistic behaviours of all three of these random variables - Value, Time needed to produce the Value, and Cost to produce the Value is required for any decision to be made in the presence of uncertainty. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

Risk interaction within systems and subsystems, between functional and physical elements, can also be modeled with DSM. DSM models interacting risks in a graphical representation produce numerical simulations of the risk and impacts on the probability of program success. Traditional risk models cannot model loops.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 9, 2017

My early metrics book, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation (Prentice Hall/Yourdon Press, 1982) , played a role in the way many budding software engineers quantified work and planned their projects. […] The book’s most quoted line is its first sentence: “You can’t control what you can’t measure.”

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

is not founded on any principle of business management, microeconomics of decision making, or principles of probability and statistics. Managing a business profitably is always hard work. A de minimis software project rarely benefits from estimates. Willfully bad management rarely benefits from learning how to estimate.

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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. IT Risk Management. This is the foundation for estimates.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Here's an extract from "Chapter 8: Human Behavior and Complexity," Terry Cooke-Davies, in Aspects of Complexity: Managing Projects in a Complex World. This is a cautionary tale for those listening to the #NoEstimates advocates, where anecdotes of bad management are used in an attempt to replace established principles of business management.

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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). A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

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 notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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 notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

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