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Emergent Change – Making Sense of a Messy Environment

Tony Adams

Decisions are influenced by culture and politics within an organisation. Organisational change is not a linear process or one-off event; it is continuous, open ended, messy, unpredictable and cumulative. Does it influence the wider environment or does it respond to those change drivers? Managing Change (7th ed.).

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Managment Processes. Project Governance. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Event-Based Scheduling , 10 November 2006. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008. Basis of Estimate Process.

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Emergent Change – Making Sense of a Messy Environment

Tony Adams

Decisions are influenced by culture and politics within an organisation. Organisational change is not a linear process or one-off event; it is continuous, open ended, messy, unpredictable and cumulative. Does it influence the wider environment or does it respond to those change drivers? Managing Change (7th ed.).

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. Google will find these when there is no URL provided. “The

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

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. episteme), meaning knowledge of uncertainty due to a lack of knowledge of quantities or processes of the system or the environment.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Management Processes (#MP). Governance (#Governance). While many of the presentations have similar titles, the content is focused on a specific set of processes and practices, while the principles are the same, since they are Immutable. . Management Processes. Table of Contents (Click the Name to go to Section).