Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

Performance Measurement Baseline. This creates a point of comparison of all the other baselines to evaluate project performance. GERT stands for ‘Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique’. Experts make different estimates individually and review them together in a group before arriving at a final set of estimates.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

How Project Success is Measured: 20% — Satisfied stakeholders. Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Feature Development Driven – 9%. Dynamic Systems Development Method – 3%. Technology. Information/Technology – 67%.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Brown and his book The Handbooks of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management and my review of the same book. This decision model for software development projects addressed: performance, cost, time, and risk.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2017

The common definition of the Definition of Done in agile software development is (mostly from the Scrum Alliance and other official Scrum sites): A simple list of activities (coding, comments, unit testing, integration, release notes, design documents, etc.) These Measures have Little meaning to the Decision Makers.

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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.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

Here are three common types of PMOs from across various sectors: Supportive PMO Industry Application - A supportive PMO is common in industries where projects require flexibility and autonomy, such as IT and software development enterprises. Function - A supportive PMO provides guidance, best practices, templates, and tools.

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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.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

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). This is due to many reasons, one is levels of uncertainty early in the project. Economics of Software Development.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Landmark’s measure of success over these three years had much more to do with customer satisfaction and market share than with meeting knowingly aggressive targets. It's suggested from observations, the Cone of Uncertainty (CoU) is not a valid model of how uncertainty behaves in software development projects. Laird and M.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

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). This is due to many reasons. Unanticipated technical issues with alternative plans and solutions to maintain effectiveness.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

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). This is due to many reasons. Unanticipated technical issues with alternative plans and solutions to maintain effectiveness.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success. taken from [3]).

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

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). This is due to many reasons. Unanticipated technical issues with alternative plans and solutions to maintain effectiveness.

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? Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18. [2] 5] "Decisions in software development projects management.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

They can also utilize technology to automate repetitive tasks, enhance communication and collaboration, and improve overall productivity. It could mean implementing new technologies or methodologies to automate tasks, reduce manual labor, and enhance overall efficiency.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Authorization Points: Specific points during the course of a project at which the sponsor reviews the business case and approves the project onwards. All decisions about reviewing, approving, and rejecting changes to a project are handled by the Change Control Board. The two main techniques to achieve this are fast tracking (i.e.

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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? Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18. [2] 5] "Decisions in software development projects management.

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Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

But as companies scale, as the market shifts and more parts of the business become software-focused, there’s been an increase in demand for an end-to-end solution to help large organizations build infrastructure around sound technical practices. I’m Matt VanVleet, the Chief Technology Officer for Leading Agile.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. Melanie: Hello. Jeff, a big MPUG welcome back.

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