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

MARCH 11, 2017

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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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. Related articles.

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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. Benington gave a presentation about the development of software for SAGE at Symposium on advanced programming methods for digital computers. Ability to take risks.

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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). Software Benchmarking Organization. Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Software Improvement Group (SIG). Quantimetrics.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

A Quick Estimation Approach to Software Cost Estimation," Leckraj Nagowah, Hajrah BibiBenazir, and Bachun, African Conference on Software Engineering and Applied Computing , . "A A Probabilistic Method for Predicting Software Code Growth," Michael Ross, Journal of Cost Analysis and Parametrics 4:127-147, 2011. "10

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Having spent half my life in the commercial space and half in the government space, the questions are always there. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. Is it Fletcher?

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In particular, the high level of PMM means that: Projects are delivered on time and budget; Risks and changes don’t derail projects; Projects are aligned with a company’s business objectives; The delivered output meets stakeholder expectations; A company is competitive on the market. .

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

“Automated Root Cause Isolation of Performance Regressions during Software Development,” Christopher Heger, Jens Happer, and Roozbeh Farahbod, ICPE ’13, April 21?24, Agile process Smell and Root Cause Analysis,” Dave Nicolette, International Conference on Agile Processes and Extreme Programing in Software Engineering, 2009.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

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. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. A final Thought . Kirchler, D. Andersson, C.

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Alan Parker Blog

APRIL 21, 2024

Risk Management and Information Security Management Collaboration with risk management and information security management is critical to safeguarding the IT infrastructure's e integrity, availability, and confidentiality. Since 2016, he has been a sought-after consultant in IT governance and project management.

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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. Since uncertainty creates risk, managing in the presence of uncertainty is 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 notion shows that governance is not considered a requirement for the business.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

"Iterative Enhancement: A Practical Technique for Software Development," Victor Basil and Albert Turner, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Real-Time Software Engineering in Ada: Observations and Guidelines," Mark Borger, Mark, Klein, and Robert Veltre, technical Report, CMU/SEI-89-TR-022 , September 1989. .

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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. I guess when the software is created straight out of the mind of the developer with no thought to the consequences of each decision made during the development.

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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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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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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. Software development is not Macro, it's Micro. . IT Risk Management.

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Maintenance and Support: After deployment, ongoing support and maintenance are essential to address any emerging issues, implement updates, and adapt the software to changing user needs or technological advancements. Nonetheless, teams new to containerization may face a learning curve, and improper configuration can lead to security risks.

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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." . So how do we get ±10% accuracy?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

I spent the week speaking at the College of Performance Management conference where government and industry come together to work on the issues of cost, schedule, and technical performance management process improvement needed to increase the probability of program success. IT Risk Management. Software Engineering is a Verb.

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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. Kahneman is speaking about risk-taking when we put it in the project context. IT Risk Management. Why not you?

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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." . Let's start with the obvious.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 1, 2023

Data governance and compliance — Ensuring data is managed safely and effectively in a way that complies with global data protection regulations. There’s a fast-growing need for more data professionals in the workplace, including roles like Data Engineers, ML Engineers, Data Scientists and Data Analysts.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

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. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. A final Thought . Kirchler, D. Andersson, C.

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Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

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

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create risk to the success of the project. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team. The processes is an engineering discipline.

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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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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day.

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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

MAY 8, 2016

Now that we've established with the above sources there are conjectures without basis, nonsense statements like estimates are the smell of dysfunction without ever stating what the dysfunction is or what could possibly be causing the dysfunction, here's the place to start for serious estimating for software intensive systems.

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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

This was my starting point for becoming a software engineer rather than a physicist, by the way. . IT Risk Management. Hooked up to the experiment was a series of oscilloscopes with Poloride cameras attached to capture the signal of something interesting to the Principle Investigators. Deadlines Always Matter.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Software developers will be relieved to find Backlog , a PM tool built solely for IT and software engineering teams. It may sound outdated to most of us, but sometimes, there are good reasons to stick to on-premise software. Desktop vs. online PM software. Open-source project management software .

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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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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

No Estimates Mean Better Estimates? - Value at Risk means how much money and time are you willing to risk without understanding how much time and money is at risk. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - this is a core concept for all project success. We need to learn how to predict with credible methods.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create risk to the success of the project. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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