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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Herding Cats

If, for example, a project manager believes a member of his or her team is a fast and effective worker, each time that team member works fast and effectively or is told by a colleague about the work that has been done fast and effectively, the project manager will consider his or her belief to be well-founded.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. requires making estimates) ? Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. 105, 2003. “A

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

Herding Cats

It's the Planning and Controls processes working together with the Technical Development processes that provide the ability to forecast what should happen in the future if we keep going like we are going now using a Model of the possible future outcomes. This is the desired outcomes model. So the open question is. Which comes first?

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Do you have a CRACK PO? (and a book review)

Kiron Bondale

In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. toxic culture, poor compensation) which are preventing you from attracting them, and in a pinch, contracting might be the way to go. Eric’s company develops and sells a number of add-on products to MS Project.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Chartering the Team , Chartering empowers team members, both individuals and collectively. Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM).

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. 26% say effective team communication. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Feature Development Driven – 9%. Dynamic Systems Development Method – 3%. Poor visibility & resource management : 31%. Poor purchasing processes: 23%.

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