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Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management

PM Basics

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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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

Planio

This hybrid of business and engineering skills is a superpower. According to the Project Management Institute’s Pulse of the Profession survey , 81% of top-performing companies prioritize the development of technical project management skills. They have an eye for risks, inefficiencies, and technical debt.

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Top Solutions to Project Failure – Epicflow Research Part 2

Epicflow Blog

We’ve surveyed members of LinkedIn PM communities to find out what leads to project failure. Our survey participants suggested various effective ways to mitigate the causes of project failure. Perform Risk Management. Read more: How to Ensure Project Success: Risk Management Matters. Involve Your Stakeholders.

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Resources for Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

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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Estimating Accuracy Mathematics

Herding Cats

Software Engineering Metrics and Models. Please go buy Software Engineering Metrics and Models , it's cheap and packed full of the mathematics needed to actually perform credible estimating on software intensive systems. And download the paper that followed " A Software Metrics Survey.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. Individual contributor team, lead section, lead project manager, program manager, director of engineering. Are we doing good change and risk management? By education and training.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

MPUG

By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. I know I’m going to have a senior software engineer and I want him working on these tasks [inaudible 00:12:15] who that is.