Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 31, 2023

However, the Introduction to Agile Development and Scrum course does recommend that you are comfortable using a computer and that you’ve had some involvement in software development or IT project management, perhaps as a team member or stakeholder in development projects.

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NimbleWork

JANUARY 2, 2025

From Software development to enterprise-level transformations, Agile has become the cornerstone of modern work, empowering teams to be flexible, iterative, and customer-focused. A pioneer in Extreme Programming, Lean Software Development, and Lean Startup, Joshua introduced Modern Agile, a principle-driven approach to agility.

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. When I googled “software development life cycle definition” I found different variants. Phases in Software Development. Concept Development.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

For example, about which software to buy, which Features in the development backlog should be implemented next, what prices to charge for products and services. Software development is an exercise in microeconomics, since it deals with limited resources - time, cost, and what value is produced in exchange for the time and money.

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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

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. Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. The design of the code was straight forward.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The connection with software development/maintenance is probably obvious. Tying Up Loose Ends in Software. Keeping code clean at all times really ought to be considered baseline job performance for a software engineer. Customers would become fed up with waiting beyond the promised completion times for the work.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2019

It talks about the history of software development. It explains how we came to run software development with project structures and the inherent issues that came with them. It then outlines the case for continuous development with all the arguments for retaining knowledge, reducing handoff and dependences, etc.

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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2022

Back then, a software engineer could handle and often master almost any technology necessary in order to develop a software product. To make the situation even more challenging, there is always a risk that at least some of those people may be lone wolves not used to working with other teammates. 2020, [link]. [2]

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PM Basics

JULY 1, 2020

When you are aiming for the IT sector you must know SDLC: Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management. How to avoid that risk from happening again?”. You don’t work in one of the main industries: Software Development. Agile Frameworks are popular in the software development industry.

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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. What Dr. Royce was describing was a flawed model for software development as he argued for a model with multiple iterations or runs.

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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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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 9, 2017

Risk is everywhere on projects. This risk comes from two types of uncertainty. The idea of risk and its management and handling is a critical success factor for all software development. Peter Drucker (1975) Management (From The Principles of Software Engineering , Chapter 6, Tom Glib, 1988). .

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

Technical project managers have a unique insight into how products get built that allows them to collaborate better with development teams, identify technical risks or inefficiencies, and make smarter decisions about how new features will work (or not) within your product roadmap. How software systems are architected.

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used in the software development and IT industry for the past sixteen years, but recently it has gained wide acceptance by many number of industries and organizations. In 2001 a group of software engineers and scientists in IT industry got together and wrote Agile Manifesto.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? 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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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2017

The classic paper “ Software Engineering Economics,” Barry Boehm, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol SE-10(1), 1984, pp. For software development, there are many decisions to be made. What Feature to develop next ? IT Risk Management. A broader definition is. Related articles.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Most of these roles were based on aspects of IT operation, such as mainframe operation and maintenance, which later evolved into software development and commercialisation. LEAN processes emerged in 1991, with the Agile Manifesto launched by a group of software engineers in 2001.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 18, 2018

Some things programmers can do to minimize the risk of runtime issues in a world of cloud-based and IoT solutions: Be disciplined about avoiding short-cuts to “meet a date;” buggy software isn’t really “done” anyway, no matter how quickly it’s released. This may be a consequence of rushing the work.

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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. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. A final Thought . Kirchler, D.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

A working paper of the same title " Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM), " Barry Boehm, Jo Ann Lane, Supannika Koolmanojwong, Richard Turner, CSCI577, Software Engineering, Fall 2017, University of Southern California (my alma mater in Systems Engineering) . IT Risk Management. Data over Intuition.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Perform Risk Management. Consider introducing risk management measures such as simulations and predictions to be ready for the bottlenecks that might compromise your projects in the future. For effective risk management, it might be reasonable to consider using a project management tool such as Epicflow.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

Software development is a Value Creaton activity, but Value cannot be determined unless we know the cost to produce that value and when that value will be available for use by those who of paid for that Value. For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Microeconomics .

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Wrike

MARCH 4, 2015

You’ll learn about Work Breakdown Structures, defining a project schedule and budget, controlling deliverables, managing issues and risks, leadership and communication skills, working with stakeholders, and more. His solution is unconventional: with a huge staff of software developers at his disposal, he splits them into eighteen teams.

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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.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Yes, this is the basis of any closed loop control system from keeping the room temperature at a specific setting, to the speed control on your car, to managing software development projects in the presence of uncertainty. The link to the quote in the original book can be found here, Software Engineering and Metrics.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. This would be like saying, risk management is a waste , control system engineering is a waste, thermal analysis of the computer system is a waste, assessment of the reliability, repairability, survivability - all the. In all cases, we start our work with.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects? All for the want of a nail.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

Ready to transform your approach to project management and software development? Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. Columns include "Reported," "Confirmed," "In Development," "Testing," and "Deployed."

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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. We engineers should always keep in mind that software development is usually one part of many others inside the company.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. 37-48, 2007.

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The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Feature Driven Development (FDD) is an agile methodology specifically applied to software development. What Is the Agile Feature-driven Development Methodology? Feature-driven Development (FDD) is one of several agile methodologies or approaches (some other popular ones include Scrum , XP , DSDM, and Crystal ).

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Enter the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), the unsung hero of the digital age. This comprehensive article will delve into the world of SREs, exploring their role, responsibilities, importance in business operations, the intersection of software engineering and systems administration, and the future trends shaping this crucial field.

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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. For any Agile development tools (Rally, JIRA, Team Foundation Server) have embedded tools for making these charts. What is the Value at Risk for your Project?

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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. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. A final Thought . Kirchler, D.

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