The document discusses a study comparing Agile and waterfall project delivery methods across several metrics. It outlines the study's setup, data collection process from 278 IT projects, and analysis of core metrics like size, duration, effort/cost, and quality. Key findings included Agile projects having shorter duration, higher defects initially but lower over time, and better productivity and time-to-market than waterfall projects, especially for larger projects. Factors contributing to best and worst practices are also examined.
The document outlines an iterative methodology for deploying Aras Innovator. It discusses dividing projects into manageable phases like inception, elaboration, construction, and transition. Each phase has objectives and milestones. The methodology emphasizes iterative design, managing requirements, continuous verification, and controlling changes. It provides tips for implementation like using visual prototypes, breaking work into components, and ensuring quality through user testing.
09 Ace 2010 Aras Implementation Best PracticesProdeos
The document discusses best practices for implementing a phased rollout using the Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology. It provides an overview of RUP, which uses an iterative approach to develop solutions in increments. Each phase of RUP - inception, elaboration, construction, and transition - is described. The document also outlines how RUP's iterative development process and disciplines like requirements and testing align well with using Aras Innovator. An example project is given for product engineering using Aras Innovator to manage parts, documents, bills of materials, and changes.
This document discusses measuring the effectiveness of offshoring projects. It presents the Rightshore approach used by Capgemini, which emphasizes transparency through standardized processes, tools and reporting. Graphs show how offshoring can reduce project costs and schedules through concepts like the "cone of uncertainty" and separating work into front office and back office teams. Metrics like staffing levels, productivity hours and defects found are tracked over time to analyze performance and improve estimates.
1. The document outlines a 5-step process for change management and sustainability consulting projects that includes defining the scope, collecting and assessing data, setting strategy and plans, implementing and adjusting initiatives, and monitoring and reporting on progress.
2. A wide range of tools are presented for each project phase, including sustainability tools like life-cycle analysis and energy analysis, as well as change management tools like communications planning, open space technology, and lean six sigma.
3. Employees are identified as a major leverage point for driving organizational changes related to sustainability through their ability to reduce impacts, alter production, and increase efficiency.
Lean Project Management is a proven method for improving project performance. It focuses on managing variability through planning, execution, and monitoring approaches like identifying essential inputs, aggressive task estimates, critical chain protection, and buffer management. Team support is critical for implementing Lean Project Management successfully.
The document discusses Advanced Management Insight (AMI), a solution from CAI that provides IT management visibility, control, and optimization through automated data collection and analysis. It captures project data, measures against best practices and KPIs, and provides dashboards and reports. AMI aims to eliminate "management by walking around" by surfacing risks and issues early. It has helped customers reduce reporting time by 80% and rework by up to 40% while improving productivity and innovation. The demonstration shows sample AMI dashboards and analytics for portfolio management, resource planning, budgeting, predictive insights, and stage gating.
Envision is a SaaS (Software as a Service) construction management tool that reduces project administration effort and costs and radically improves field productivity. Built upon the principles of Agile and Lean Construction, Envision represents a new and more efficient way to work.
The document outlines an iterative methodology for deploying Aras Innovator. It discusses dividing projects into manageable phases like inception, elaboration, construction, and transition. Each phase has objectives and milestones. The methodology emphasizes iterative design, managing requirements, continuous verification, and controlling changes. It provides tips for implementation like using visual prototypes, breaking work into components, and ensuring quality through user testing.
09 Ace 2010 Aras Implementation Best PracticesProdeos
The document discusses best practices for implementing a phased rollout using the Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology. It provides an overview of RUP, which uses an iterative approach to develop solutions in increments. Each phase of RUP - inception, elaboration, construction, and transition - is described. The document also outlines how RUP's iterative development process and disciplines like requirements and testing align well with using Aras Innovator. An example project is given for product engineering using Aras Innovator to manage parts, documents, bills of materials, and changes.
This document discusses measuring the effectiveness of offshoring projects. It presents the Rightshore approach used by Capgemini, which emphasizes transparency through standardized processes, tools and reporting. Graphs show how offshoring can reduce project costs and schedules through concepts like the "cone of uncertainty" and separating work into front office and back office teams. Metrics like staffing levels, productivity hours and defects found are tracked over time to analyze performance and improve estimates.
1. The document outlines a 5-step process for change management and sustainability consulting projects that includes defining the scope, collecting and assessing data, setting strategy and plans, implementing and adjusting initiatives, and monitoring and reporting on progress.
2. A wide range of tools are presented for each project phase, including sustainability tools like life-cycle analysis and energy analysis, as well as change management tools like communications planning, open space technology, and lean six sigma.
3. Employees are identified as a major leverage point for driving organizational changes related to sustainability through their ability to reduce impacts, alter production, and increase efficiency.
Lean Project Management is a proven method for improving project performance. It focuses on managing variability through planning, execution, and monitoring approaches like identifying essential inputs, aggressive task estimates, critical chain protection, and buffer management. Team support is critical for implementing Lean Project Management successfully.
The document discusses Advanced Management Insight (AMI), a solution from CAI that provides IT management visibility, control, and optimization through automated data collection and analysis. It captures project data, measures against best practices and KPIs, and provides dashboards and reports. AMI aims to eliminate "management by walking around" by surfacing risks and issues early. It has helped customers reduce reporting time by 80% and rework by up to 40% while improving productivity and innovation. The demonstration shows sample AMI dashboards and analytics for portfolio management, resource planning, budgeting, predictive insights, and stage gating.
Envision is a SaaS (Software as a Service) construction management tool that reduces project administration effort and costs and radically improves field productivity. Built upon the principles of Agile and Lean Construction, Envision represents a new and more efficient way to work.
Field Time Effeicincy Analysis PresentationMohamed Hassan
This document summarizes a project to improve field-time efficiency for structural engineers at OBI. It outlines the problem definition worksheet, which identified key issues like customers being dissatisfied with OBI's ability to demonstrate quality at construction sites. The document then discusses project metrics like the percentage of site surveillance inspections over total inspections, which was currently around 9% but should be improved to a target of 15-16% to satisfy customers. It also maps out the relevant business processes and identifies objectives to track the project's success in addressing the issues.
The document summarizes an ISM for Design & Delivery panel discussion with experts from IBM Rational and Tivoli. The panelists were Don O’Toole, Harish Grama, Dave Lindquist, Neeraj Chandra, and Wing To. They discussed how integrating service design, delivery, and management across the lifecycle can enable service innovation through improved visibility, control, and automation. Rational and Tivoli products were highlighted as delivering integrations that bridge gaps in service delivery and enable innovation. Process, people, and technology integration were said to lead to real business service improvements through early problem detection, reduced costs, and performance optimization.
Dnv Improving Your Process Performances With AgileGeorge Ang
This document discusses a presentation given by Yann Hamon of DNV IT Global Services on improving process performances with agile methods. It provides background on DNV, describes agile software development practices like scrum and lean, and how mixing agile and CMMI can provide repeatable and controlled agile processes. The presentation explains how agile benefits productivity, reduces time-to-market and defects, and improves maintainability through practices like iterative development, continuous integration and automated testing.
IT and Higher Education: Where are We Headed?Mark Roman
The document discusses IT governance in higher education institutions. It outlines a framework for internalizing systems governance as a thoughtful practice at multiple levels of an institution. Key aspects of the framework include:
- Establishing governance bodies like information systems steering committees and educational technology advisory committees with representatives from areas like academic affairs, research, and administration.
- Using working groups to discuss priorities and make recommendations for initiatives in areas such as learning management systems, research computing, and administrative systems.
- Implementing a governance process that ranks initiatives based on factors like utility and fit, with some receiving base funding and others requiring one-time project funds or being client-sponsored.
The framework is presented as a way for higher education
The requirements and characteristics of a project team that is ready able and willing to decide, design and deliver a successful project.
(c) Errol Goetsch 2012 errol@xe4.org
Measuring the Results of your Agile AdoptionSoftware Guru
1. Teams assess their adoption of desired agile practices using a simple questionnaire in 15 minutes.
2. Teams then discuss areas for improvement and list specific actions they will take in another 15 minutes.
3. An assistant helps the team focus on continuous improvement by implementing the agreed upon actions. This encourages efficient improvement over time.
The three elements of project management, people, processes, and tools must focus on processes first.
Without a process, the tools have no purpose.
Without a process, the people are unguided, or at best self guided
The document discusses key aspects of agile project management including Scrum frameworks, roles like the Product Owner and Scrum Master, and practices like story planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives. It emphasizes delivering working software frequently through short iterations, continuous improvement, and collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams.
This document discusses quality systems and processes for building high performance homes. It outlines the goals of making quality practices widely available to builders to improve home performance. Various metrics are presented that show the economic benefits of quality, including reduced costs, higher profits and customer satisfaction. A hotspot process is described as a way to identify, train on and inspect recurring quality issues. Developing quality management systems for new and existing homes is presented as an area for further research.
The document discusses improving the life cycle management of IT projects. It notes that currently only around 40% of stakeholders are satisfied with internal application development speeds and quality. It then provides 10 lessons for improving the IT lifecycle, including focusing on business goals, clearly defining roles and responsibilities, documenting requirements, tracking work items, providing current project status updates, linking artifacts, consistent practices, collaboration, communication and measurement. It advocates for a collaborative lifecycle management approach that coordinates activities, provides visibility, enables traceability, supports communication and measures progress. Gartner recognizes IBM Rational as having the highest rating for application life cycle management.
This document discusses integrating risk and knowledge management practices at NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD). It outlines five practices ESMD has adopted: 1) establishing "Pause and Learn" processes to reflect on lessons; 2) generating and using "Knowledge-Based Risks" to convey lessons; 3) establishing "Communities of Practice" to share knowledge; 4) providing knowledge sharing forums; and 5) promoting experience-based training. The goal is for ESMD to effectively learn from the past and generate shared knowledge to help achieve the complex technical challenges of returning to the Moon and Mars.
Jamie Thomas is the Vice President of Product Development, Delivery and Customer Support. The document discusses how to effectively develop teams across continents, manage outsourced assets, leverage automation to optimize resources, and foster culture change to agile. It proposes using IBM's Measured Capability Improvement Framework to establish objectives, prioritize practices, accelerate adoption, and analyze results in incremental phases.
Slides from my talk at Agile India 2012 (http://agile2012.in). This talk introduces concepts of lean startup and presents a case study of product development at Ennova (www.ennova.com.au)
The document discusses software estimation, including perspectives on estimation, exercises to practice estimation techniques, factors that need to be considered for software estimation such as requirements changes and team capabilities, and tools that can be used for estimation like work breakdown structures and Gantt charts. It also covers challenges with estimation like a lack of historical data, uncertainty in the estimation process, and how estimates become more accurate as a project's definition is refined.
Keynote delivered at the 1st International Workshop on Process in the Large (IW-PL), September 13, 2010, Hoboken, NJ in conjunction with the BPM 2010 conference.
This document outlines Ingersoll Rand's lean deployment strategy presented at a lean summit in Shanghai. It discusses using lean principles in business strategy and goal deployment to drive operational excellence. Key aspects of the strategy include top leadership commitment, coaching to solve problems, and building a culture of continuous improvement through tools like A3 thinking and a mission control board. The goal is to increase speed, flow, and alignment across the value chain.
SAP CVN Supply Network Planning - Supply Planning Engine SelectionPlan4Demand
This document summarizes a presentation on supply chain planning given by Plan4Demand Solutions. The presentation covered challenges with supply planning, tools for optimization, and questions. It discussed Plan4Demand's consulting services in supply chain planning areas like demand forecasting and inventory optimization. The presentation also covered supply planning engine selection, change management, and challenges with aligning supply network planning results to master data.
Metrics to improve organisational performance in picturesNesma
The document appears to be an agenda or program for a conference that took place in 2014. It lists several speakers who presented including Rini van Solingen, Ben Roelens, Niels van der Zwan, Niteen Kumar, Arthur Fischer, Cees Kuijpers, Michel Sterling, and Frank Vogelezang who presented on the conference location. It also mentions thanking the speakers, Ton Dekkers, a poster presentation, and a networking buffet and drinks.
Op 23 januari heeft Xebia de resultaten van de Agile Survey 2013 gepresenteerd in Fort Voordorp. Het was een interactief event met 150 deelnemers. Binnenkort zijn de resultaten verkrijgbaar in e-book formaat.
1239 Respondenten werkten mee aan de Agile Survey 2013. Agile producten zijn top, IT wordt strategisch partner, aantoonbaar resultaat, organisatieversnelling en teamsucces werden belicht tijdens de presentatie van de Resultaten.
Agile werken vereist een ander soort leiderschap was een van de stellingen tijdens de panel discussie van de Agile Survey 2013 presentatie. In de slides vind je alle stellingen terug.
Field Time Effeicincy Analysis PresentationMohamed Hassan
This document summarizes a project to improve field-time efficiency for structural engineers at OBI. It outlines the problem definition worksheet, which identified key issues like customers being dissatisfied with OBI's ability to demonstrate quality at construction sites. The document then discusses project metrics like the percentage of site surveillance inspections over total inspections, which was currently around 9% but should be improved to a target of 15-16% to satisfy customers. It also maps out the relevant business processes and identifies objectives to track the project's success in addressing the issues.
The document summarizes an ISM for Design & Delivery panel discussion with experts from IBM Rational and Tivoli. The panelists were Don O’Toole, Harish Grama, Dave Lindquist, Neeraj Chandra, and Wing To. They discussed how integrating service design, delivery, and management across the lifecycle can enable service innovation through improved visibility, control, and automation. Rational and Tivoli products were highlighted as delivering integrations that bridge gaps in service delivery and enable innovation. Process, people, and technology integration were said to lead to real business service improvements through early problem detection, reduced costs, and performance optimization.
Dnv Improving Your Process Performances With AgileGeorge Ang
This document discusses a presentation given by Yann Hamon of DNV IT Global Services on improving process performances with agile methods. It provides background on DNV, describes agile software development practices like scrum and lean, and how mixing agile and CMMI can provide repeatable and controlled agile processes. The presentation explains how agile benefits productivity, reduces time-to-market and defects, and improves maintainability through practices like iterative development, continuous integration and automated testing.
IT and Higher Education: Where are We Headed?Mark Roman
The document discusses IT governance in higher education institutions. It outlines a framework for internalizing systems governance as a thoughtful practice at multiple levels of an institution. Key aspects of the framework include:
- Establishing governance bodies like information systems steering committees and educational technology advisory committees with representatives from areas like academic affairs, research, and administration.
- Using working groups to discuss priorities and make recommendations for initiatives in areas such as learning management systems, research computing, and administrative systems.
- Implementing a governance process that ranks initiatives based on factors like utility and fit, with some receiving base funding and others requiring one-time project funds or being client-sponsored.
The framework is presented as a way for higher education
The requirements and characteristics of a project team that is ready able and willing to decide, design and deliver a successful project.
(c) Errol Goetsch 2012 errol@xe4.org
Measuring the Results of your Agile AdoptionSoftware Guru
1. Teams assess their adoption of desired agile practices using a simple questionnaire in 15 minutes.
2. Teams then discuss areas for improvement and list specific actions they will take in another 15 minutes.
3. An assistant helps the team focus on continuous improvement by implementing the agreed upon actions. This encourages efficient improvement over time.
The three elements of project management, people, processes, and tools must focus on processes first.
Without a process, the tools have no purpose.
Without a process, the people are unguided, or at best self guided
The document discusses key aspects of agile project management including Scrum frameworks, roles like the Product Owner and Scrum Master, and practices like story planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives. It emphasizes delivering working software frequently through short iterations, continuous improvement, and collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams.
This document discusses quality systems and processes for building high performance homes. It outlines the goals of making quality practices widely available to builders to improve home performance. Various metrics are presented that show the economic benefits of quality, including reduced costs, higher profits and customer satisfaction. A hotspot process is described as a way to identify, train on and inspect recurring quality issues. Developing quality management systems for new and existing homes is presented as an area for further research.
The document discusses improving the life cycle management of IT projects. It notes that currently only around 40% of stakeholders are satisfied with internal application development speeds and quality. It then provides 10 lessons for improving the IT lifecycle, including focusing on business goals, clearly defining roles and responsibilities, documenting requirements, tracking work items, providing current project status updates, linking artifacts, consistent practices, collaboration, communication and measurement. It advocates for a collaborative lifecycle management approach that coordinates activities, provides visibility, enables traceability, supports communication and measures progress. Gartner recognizes IBM Rational as having the highest rating for application life cycle management.
This document discusses integrating risk and knowledge management practices at NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD). It outlines five practices ESMD has adopted: 1) establishing "Pause and Learn" processes to reflect on lessons; 2) generating and using "Knowledge-Based Risks" to convey lessons; 3) establishing "Communities of Practice" to share knowledge; 4) providing knowledge sharing forums; and 5) promoting experience-based training. The goal is for ESMD to effectively learn from the past and generate shared knowledge to help achieve the complex technical challenges of returning to the Moon and Mars.
Jamie Thomas is the Vice President of Product Development, Delivery and Customer Support. The document discusses how to effectively develop teams across continents, manage outsourced assets, leverage automation to optimize resources, and foster culture change to agile. It proposes using IBM's Measured Capability Improvement Framework to establish objectives, prioritize practices, accelerate adoption, and analyze results in incremental phases.
Slides from my talk at Agile India 2012 (http://agile2012.in). This talk introduces concepts of lean startup and presents a case study of product development at Ennova (www.ennova.com.au)
The document discusses software estimation, including perspectives on estimation, exercises to practice estimation techniques, factors that need to be considered for software estimation such as requirements changes and team capabilities, and tools that can be used for estimation like work breakdown structures and Gantt charts. It also covers challenges with estimation like a lack of historical data, uncertainty in the estimation process, and how estimates become more accurate as a project's definition is refined.
Keynote delivered at the 1st International Workshop on Process in the Large (IW-PL), September 13, 2010, Hoboken, NJ in conjunction with the BPM 2010 conference.
This document outlines Ingersoll Rand's lean deployment strategy presented at a lean summit in Shanghai. It discusses using lean principles in business strategy and goal deployment to drive operational excellence. Key aspects of the strategy include top leadership commitment, coaching to solve problems, and building a culture of continuous improvement through tools like A3 thinking and a mission control board. The goal is to increase speed, flow, and alignment across the value chain.
SAP CVN Supply Network Planning - Supply Planning Engine SelectionPlan4Demand
This document summarizes a presentation on supply chain planning given by Plan4Demand Solutions. The presentation covered challenges with supply planning, tools for optimization, and questions. It discussed Plan4Demand's consulting services in supply chain planning areas like demand forecasting and inventory optimization. The presentation also covered supply planning engine selection, change management, and challenges with aligning supply network planning results to master data.
Metrics to improve organisational performance in picturesNesma
The document appears to be an agenda or program for a conference that took place in 2014. It lists several speakers who presented including Rini van Solingen, Ben Roelens, Niels van der Zwan, Niteen Kumar, Arthur Fischer, Cees Kuijpers, Michel Sterling, and Frank Vogelezang who presented on the conference location. It also mentions thanking the speakers, Ton Dekkers, a poster presentation, and a networking buffet and drinks.
Op 23 januari heeft Xebia de resultaten van de Agile Survey 2013 gepresenteerd in Fort Voordorp. Het was een interactief event met 150 deelnemers. Binnenkort zijn de resultaten verkrijgbaar in e-book formaat.
1239 Respondenten werkten mee aan de Agile Survey 2013. Agile producten zijn top, IT wordt strategisch partner, aantoonbaar resultaat, organisatieversnelling en teamsucces werden belicht tijdens de presentatie van de Resultaten.
Agile werken vereist een ander soort leiderschap was een van de stellingen tijdens de panel discussie van de Agile Survey 2013 presentatie. In de slides vind je alle stellingen terug.
The document is an invitation to the IWSM/Mensura 2015 conference to be held from October 5-8 in Krakow, Poland. The conference will take place at the Sheraton Hotel in Krakow and include a banquet in the unique underground Salt Mine in Wieliczka, featuring its beautiful chapel and lake carved entirely out of salt. Attendees are invited to experience the beautiful city of Krakow and visit the historic Salt Mine.
Iwsm2014 importance of benchmarking (john ogilvie & harold van heeringen)Nesma
The document discusses three cases where the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) database was used to provide benchmarks and industry data for software project estimation, competitive analysis, and supplier performance measurement.
In the first case, a telecom company used ISBSG data to perform a reality check on an expert estimate for a new software project, which found the estimate to be optimistic. In the second case, a software company analyzed ISBSG data to assess the competitiveness of its bidding process. In the third case, an organization set productivity targets for an outsourced supplier based on ISBSG benchmarks.
As mentioned on the ISBSG workshop in El Segundo and the MAIN track in the IWSM in Assisi, the Basis of Estimate - Software Services is ready for review.
The document is intended to set a best practice for structuring an Estimate for Software Services.
You are invited to review it.
If interested you're allowed to forward the attached document to reviewers.
Comment by the reviewers can be mailed directly to me: Ton Dekkers ton.dekkers@nesma.nl
The due date for comments is set to Sunday, December 16 2012.
Next step will be incorporating the useful suggestions and preparing a version for the 3rd and final review within AACE.
Personality and performance in software engineering personnelNesma
The document discusses research into the cognitive and personality factors that influence a person's ability to accurately estimate project costs and timelines. It describes previous studies on the use of case-based reasoning tools and expert judgement to improve estimates. Personality measures including the Big 5 and MBTI are examined for 5 project managers, and their ability to predict effort for a sample project is analyzed along with their scores on grit, affect, metacognition, problem solving and emotional intelligence.
Google Glass is an augmented reality smart glasses prototype developed by Google that displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format. The device connects to the internet using Wi-Fi networks and shares a similar technical specification to smartphones using Bluetooth and having 5MP camera. Google launched an Explorer program in 2013 that allowed participants to purchase Glass for $1,500 and provide feedback to help shape the future development of the product.
IT estimation must make a move from size estimation that is translated to cost to an integral cost estimation practice. This is supported by the Basis of Estimate, a joint standard from NESMA and AACEi. Added is a special welcom for the IWSM 2014 in Rotterdam.
Presentatie van de NESMA voorjaarsconferentie 2012 met daar aan toegevoegd de ideeën voor nieuwe werkgroepen op de vijf aandachtsgebieden die NESMA op het oog heeft voor 2020.
This document presents the results of a systematic mapping study on software product size measurement methods. The study identified 79 different size measurement methods, most of which (86%) measure functional size. Only 19% of methods were novel, while the rest extended or tailored existing approaches. The study found that size measurement is most applicable to data-dominant domains, and future work could focus on tailoring methods for object-oriented development and automated measurement tool development.
Iwsm2014 manage the automotive embedded software (alexandre oriou)Nesma
Renault has adopted the COSMIC method to measure the size of embedded software specified using Simulink. An automated tool has been developed to apply COSMIC measurements to Simulink models. COSMIC measurements are used to estimate development costs and schedules, evaluate supplier productivity, estimate memory requirements, and determine the value of software functions. Renault aims to further integrate COSMIC measures into software quality dashboards to improve project monitoring.
Iwsm2014 understanding functional reuse of erp (maya daneva) - public releaseNesma
The document summarizes a study on the level of functional reuse achieved by three telecom companies that implemented SAP ERP systems. The study found that:
1) Reuse is possible up to 80% for some modules, but for others the level of reuse varied widely between companies.
2) Reuse was measured according to four levels: from fully reused without changes (Level 3) to not reused at all (Level 0).
3) Results for individual ERP modules like materials management showed reuse levels ranging from 30-80% depending on the business process and company.
This document summarizes a case study conducted by Jean-François Dumas-Monette and Sylvie Trudel on measuring requirements engineering quality in an agile context using functional size measurement. The researchers conducted measurements on 10 projects from a software company using agile development practices. They found that projects with higher quality requirements had lower development and measurement efforts. The study also identified common defects in requirements that could be addressed to improve quality. Recommendations included training analysts in measurement and formalizing requirements and data modeling practices.
Iwsm2014 quantifying long-term evolution of industrial meta-models - a case...Nesma
This document summarizes a case study analyzing the evolution of the AUTOSAR industrial meta-model over 22 releases. Metrics were defined to measure properties like size, length, complexity, coupling and cohesion. The metrics were assessed using the entire meta-model and specific packages. Most metrics were highly correlated. Fan-in and package cohesion were identified as sufficient to quantify meta-model evolution. The authors recommend using these metrics and number of classes to monitor complexity, cohesion, coupling and size in future meta-model releases.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Wilfried Grommen, CTO at an ICT Summit in Moldova on May 19, 2011. The presentation covered challenges in application lifecycle management, the value of HP's Project and Portfolio Management tools, and agile development methods. It discussed managing increasing application complexity, compliance issues, and optimizing portfolios. It also presented how HP's tools can help with application governance, demand management, project execution, and decision making. Finally, it provided an overview of agile practices like Scrum and how HP supports agile development.
From Waterfall to Agile - from predictive to adaptive methodsBjörn Jónsson
In this introduction into Agile methods, the background and environment of Software Development is discussed. Results of the 1995 Chaos report are mentioned, as well as interests in adaptive "lightweight" methods. Agile methods are explained in general and Scrum method taken as a concrete sample.
This document discusses project management principles and processes. It outlines the key characteristics of projects, including objectives, schedules, complexity, resources needed, and influence from the environment. The document also discusses the project management process groups of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring/controlling, and closing. It emphasizes that project management involves managing processes and people to achieve project goals. Progressive elaboration is discussed as continuously improving plans over time as more information becomes available.
Begroten als het model = de applicatie = de documentatie - Gerard Ohm - NESMA...Nesma
This document discusses model-driven development using the Be Informed platform. It makes three key points:
1. With Be Informed, there is no clear distinction between design and development - the design is directly implemented. This impacts traditional function point analysis for estimating.
2. Productivity depends highly on customer maturity and ability to make decisions. Experience of the implementation team also impacts productivity.
3. A "Be Structured" approach is recommended, starting with architecture and business function models to provide structure before detailing and growing applications live. This provides better predictive value for estimating than traditional function points.
Kepner Tregoe Developing Your Hr Project Management SkillsJessica Booth
The document discusses developing project management skills. It introduces Kepner-Tregoe, an international consulting firm, and their approach to project management. Their approach focuses on critical success factors like project organization, culture, process, and reporting. Effective project management requires defining the project, objectives, and work breakdown structure. It also requires factors like commitment, planning, and clear success criteria.
The document discusses various software development life cycle (SDLC) models, including:
- The waterfall model, which uses sequential phases of requirements, design, coding, testing, and deployment. It is structured but rigid.
- Iterative development models, which allow for feedback loops and releasing partial software in iterations to get faster feedback.
- Agile methodologies like Scrum, which embrace changing requirements, focus on working software over documentation, and value customer collaboration over contracts. Key aspects are iterative development, regular refactoring, and communicating for learning.
- Pitfalls of agile include skill gaps, lack of traceability, poor communication, and not staying close enough to customers. Overall, agile aims to
How Well Does ERP Facilitate Project Based Business Models?Charles Rathmann
What is Project ERP? It is enterprise resource planning (ERP) software designed fo r project-intensive environments like engineer to order manufacturing, engineering procurement and construction contracting or even asset-based environmetns like process manufacturing. This study from IFS North American and Mint Jutras indicates that many of these industries lack the Project ERP functionality necessary to increase productivity and manage risk.
This document provides an overview of multi-generation project planning (MGPP). MGPPs allow organizations to plan related improvement projects over multiple generations or releases. They help manage scope, capture additional ideas, identify replication opportunities, and communicate how individual projects fit into the overall strategy. The benefits, elements, and an example of an MGPP to reduce Army medical mobilization lead times are described.
This chapter discusses why project management is important for businesses. It defines what a project is and differentiates projects from regular business processes. The chapter covers the typical project life cycle stages of conceptualization, planning, execution, and termination. It also discusses different ways to define and measure project success, including considering goals related to time, budget, scope and quality. Finally, it introduces various models for assessing an organization's project management maturity.
How Well Does ERP Facilitate Project-Based Business Models?charlesrathmann
What is Project ERP? It is enterprise resource planning (ERP) software designed fo r project-intensive environments like engineer to order manufacturing, engineering procurement and construction contracting or even asset-based environmetns like process manufacturing. This study from IFS North American and Mint Jutras indicates that many of these industries lack the Project ERP functionality necessary to increase productivity and manage risk.
The document discusses agile software project management methodologies. It presents the main characteristics of agile approaches like Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, Crystal, and Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development. These methodologies focus on people over processes, collaboration over contracts, responding to change, and producing working software. The document compares methodology components and outlines the principles and practices of some popular agile methodologies.
PPM Challenge #3: Providing Value to All Levels – 2012 PPM Challenge and Oppo...EPM Live
Challenge: Meeting stakeholder expectations is a challenge for most organizations. How do you keep stakeholders in the know with the current status of work and how do you prevent team members from making assumptions and more often than not, causing rework, due to a lack of project awareness? Keeping teams informed provides a healthy environment and reduces risks. Click through this webinar slide deck to see how EPM Live's SharePoint-based Project Management solution can help you meet your project deliverables.
Macrosolutions Consulting Service: Applying Quantitative Methods and Risks Si...Macrosolutions SA
Macrosolutions is a consulting firm that specializes in quantitative risk analysis and simulation for projects using techniques like Monte Carlo simulation. They can provide visibility into project results within 3 weeks using their accelerated benefits methodology. The firm uses the latest risk simulation software and tools to model project data and execute simulations to statistically analyze results and estimate time and cost reserves. Their team of consultants has extensive experience implementing these quantitative methods.
Macrosolutions Consulting Service: Resources and Investment Optimization thro...Macrosolutions SA
Achieve better results through the integrated and related projects management or projects that share resources, technology, suppliers and other stakeholders.
This document provides an overview of project management office (PMO) concepts including:
- The need for project management to combine specialized knowledge with general management practices.
- Different levels of PMO maturity from supporting individual projects to supporting business strategy.
- Key functions of PMOs ranging from consultative to enterprise-wide support.
- Critical success factors for PMOs such as clear vision, leadership, expectations, and change management.
- Examples of common PMO deliverables like charters, roles and responsibilities, processes, tools, and status reports.
Want to start using EVM principles for your project based business? This is a great primer to get you started. Brought to you by the team at Unanet.com.
Learn more at: https://www.unanet.com/news/demand-webinars
EPM Live is a global leader in enterprise project, portfolio, and work management solutions. It has over 5,000 customers in 38 countries. EPM Live offers a single platform to manage all types of work, including projects, applications, services, and more. It provides deployment options, including SaaS, hosted, and on-premise, and scales to meet different organizational maturity levels in project management.
Primavera _ Mike Sicilia _ Orace Primavera vision and road ahead.pdfInSync2011
This document provides an overview and roadmap for Oracle Primavera. It discusses Oracle Primavera's transformation into a complete enterprise project portfolio management platform. It highlights the benefits of an enterprise approach to project management, including economies of scale, standardization, transparency, and visibility. It also discusses how Oracle Primavera solutions support an enterprise approach through integration, consistency, and providing a global view of all projects.
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The Use of Functional Size in the Industry.pdfNesma
In this webinar, the emphasis is on the use of Functional Size in the Industry, and we focus on several use cases where functional size helps organizations to make impactful decisions based on objective metrics and data.
While traditional performance metrics often measure individual output or adherence to pre-defined plans, measuring performance in agile teams requires a different approach. Agile teams operate in iterative cycles, prioritizing adaptability and learning over rigid goals. So, why do organizations still measure their performance?
By using the right metrics in the right way, organizations can empower their agile teams to thrive and deliver exceptional results.
Software Cost Estimation webinar January 2024.pdfNesma
In this webinar you will learn why Software Cost Estimation is important, what is the Software Cost Estimation Body of Knowledge for Software and the ways you can become a professional certified software cost estimator SCEC!
Nesma event June '23 - How to use objective metrics as a basis for agile cost...Nesma
This document discusses using objective metrics for agile cost estimation and monitoring. It notes that while agile development is challenging to estimate and measure, sizing software using functional points allows for estimation and benchmarking using data. Story points alone do not provide enough information to manage value creation over time. Key metrics like productivity, defects, and where teams spend their effort need to be measured to understand performance. Effort registration is crucial for project control to understand functionality delivered and productivity. Functional size measurement creates reference points to help manage projects.
Nesma event June '23 - Easy Function Sizing - Introduction.pdfNesma
The document introduces a new method called Easy Functional Sizing (EFS) that aims to provide a simpler alternative to the more complex High Level Function Point Analysis method. EFS is designed to be aligned with modern development methods, have fewer debates around function point types, and be easy to learn. It maintains the same level of assessment as High Level FPA but only has 4 pages of definitions and rules organized into 3 components. Initial analysis shows EFS results are comparable to High Level FPA with less than a 2% difference on average. Feedback is requested from reviewers knowledgeable and not knowledgeable in FPA to test if EFS provides enough depth.
The journey of UNISON Cost Engineering in the field of automotive software cost estimation started in 2018. The expectation is that in 2030 the cost of software will be 50% of the total production cost of a car. To help the OEM get a proper understanding of the software development cost they need to use some form of size measurement to compare, challenge and control the cost of software development by the software vendors.
The COSMIC battle between David and Goliath - Paul HusseinNesma
No more exhaustive and emotional discussions on price and deliverables. Predictable prices for projects and changes. No escalating maintenance costs. This can only be done by specifying exactly what you want and outsource it to the right service providers that have the required platform already in place.
Succesful Estimating - It's how you tell the story - Amritpal Singh AgarNesma
Estimating the Cost of something is a profession. But then you have to tell the story about the estimate to whoever needs to hear that story. The success of how you tell the story is determining the success of the cost estimate.
(Increasing) Predictability of large Government ICT Projects - Koos VeefkindNesma
1) The document discusses using Function Point Analysis (FPA) to increase the predictability of large government IT projects.
2) FPA is used to estimate the total development capacity needed and provide periodic estimates of the expected lead time to completion based on measuring function points completed and productivity.
3) Tracking actual function points completed against the initial goal and expected progress allows projects to identify risks and make adjustments to the planning and estimates.
CEBoK for Software Past Present Future - Megan JonesNesma
The Cost Estimation Body of Knowledge for Software is in development for a number of years within ICEAA. First as a section of the general CEBoK, but it will be established as a separate CEBoK-S for Software, since software is becoming very prominent within the cost estimation community.
Agile Development and Agile Cost Estimation - A return to basic principles - ...Nesma
Is there a natural tension between agile development and traditional cost management or do we need to return to basic principles? Even when you are flexible, you still need to make a plan, build an estimate and measure what you have achieved.
Resolving Cost Management and Key Pitfalls of Agile Software Development - Da...Nesma
Agile software development does not always live up to the promises. Especially in the field of IT Cost Management. Without proper estimation and tracking the value cannot be made clear.
Project Succes is a Choice - Joop SchefferlieNesma
Project success is a choice. Don't stop thinking about the best way to do a project, agile or not. Select the best competencies to ensure that the project will be successful.
Deze presentatie beschrijft een praktische implementatie van het gebruik van Nesma functiepunten in Agile deliveries. Deze presentatie is gepresenteerd door Richard Sweer van Infinity tijdens de webinar Afrekenen met functiepunten. Voor meer info: www.nesma.org; conference@nesma.org.
Software sizing as an essential measure past present and future - Dan Galorat...Nesma
The document discusses different methods for software sizing, both historically and currently. It covers lines of code, functional sizes, story points, and more. It also discusses sizing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software by considering features, objects, and the required cognition. COTS cognition involves understanding features, referenced and configured tables, and input/output/inquiry services or classes. The percentage of COTS functionality required is also a factor. Overall, the document advocates that there are many viable sizing methods and standards are important, while not dismissing lines of code when appropriate.
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
Mydbops Managed Services specializes in taking the pain out of database management while optimizing performance. Since 2015, we have been providing top-notch support and assistance for the top three open-source databases: MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Our team offers a wide range of services, including assistance, support, consulting, 24/7 operations, and expertise in all relevant technologies. We help organizations improve their database's performance, scalability, efficiency, and availability.
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AI in the Workplace Reskilling, Upskilling, and Future Work.pptxSunil Jagani
Discover how AI is transforming the workplace and learn strategies for reskilling and upskilling employees to stay ahead. This comprehensive guide covers the impact of AI on jobs, essential skills for the future, and successful case studies from industry leaders. Embrace AI-driven changes, foster continuous learning, and build a future-ready workforce.
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This talk will cover ScyllaDB Architecture from the cluster-level view and zoom in on data distribution and internal node architecture. In the process, we will learn the secret sauce used to get ScyllaDB's high availability and superior performance. We will also touch on the upcoming changes to ScyllaDB architecture, moving to strongly consistent metadata and tablets.
Introducing BoxLang : A new JVM language for productivity and modularity!Ortus Solutions, Corp
Just like life, our code must adapt to the ever changing world we live in. From one day coding for the web, to the next for our tablets or APIs or for running serverless applications. Multi-runtime development is the future of coding, the future is to be dynamic. Let us introduce you to BoxLang.
Dynamic. Modular. Productive.
BoxLang redefines development with its dynamic nature, empowering developers to craft expressive and functional code effortlessly. Its modular architecture prioritizes flexibility, allowing for seamless integration into existing ecosystems.
Interoperability at its Core
With 100% interoperability with Java, BoxLang seamlessly bridges the gap between traditional and modern development paradigms, unlocking new possibilities for innovation and collaboration.
Multi-Runtime
From the tiny 2m operating system binary to running on our pure Java web server, CommandBox, Jakarta EE, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Functions, Web Assembly, Android and more. BoxLang has been designed to enhance and adapt according to it's runnable runtime.
The Fusion of Modernity and Tradition
Experience the fusion of modern features inspired by CFML, Node, Ruby, Kotlin, Java, and Clojure, combined with the familiarity of Java bytecode compilation, making BoxLang a language of choice for forward-thinking developers.
Empowering Transition with Transpiler Support
Transitioning from CFML to BoxLang is seamless with our JIT transpiler, facilitating smooth migration and preserving existing code investments.
Unlocking Creativity with IDE Tools
Unleash your creativity with powerful IDE tools tailored for BoxLang, providing an intuitive development experience and streamlining your workflow. Join us as we embark on a journey to redefine JVM development. Welcome to the era of BoxLang.
"What does it really mean for your system to be available, or how to define w...Fwdays
We will talk about system monitoring from a few different angles. We will start by covering the basics, then discuss SLOs, how to define them, and why understanding the business well is crucial for success in this exercise.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Lee Barnes - Path to Becoming an Effective Test Automation Engineer.pdfleebarnesutopia
So… you want to become a Test Automation Engineer (or hire and develop one)? While there’s quite a bit of information available about important technical and tool skills to master, there’s not enough discussion around the path to becoming an effective Test Automation Engineer that knows how to add VALUE. In my experience this had led to a proliferation of engineers who are proficient with tools and building frameworks but have skill and knowledge gaps, especially in software testing, that reduce the value they deliver with test automation.
In this talk, Lee will share his lessons learned from over 30 years of working with, and mentoring, hundreds of Test Automation Engineers. Whether you’re looking to get started in test automation or just want to improve your trade, this talk will give you a solid foundation and roadmap for ensuring your test automation efforts continuously add value. This talk is equally valuable for both aspiring Test Automation Engineers and those managing them! All attendees will take away a set of key foundational knowledge and a high-level learning path for leveling up test automation skills and ensuring they add value to their organizations.
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/