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5 Steps to Finding the Path to Business Agility

International Institute for Learning

We can use many patterns that have been identified and verified as good practices across many industries, including construction, government, telecommunications, travel, finance software development, and so on. However, we do not have to start from the drawing board, so to speak, every time.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Governance. Program Governance Roadmap. Architecture.

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Good Reason to Have Lots of Bad Ideas

Herding Cats

HBR, Dec 27, 2016]. So what about bad ideas in the project management world, especialy the Agile Software Development world. One starting point is to ask if the ideas have any basis in a principle of how business or development of software actually works? Governance is About Decision Rights.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

Herding Cats

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. Hooey, Safety Science, Volume 85, June 2016, Pages 241–257. Why All This Setup? .

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. 2128, International Technical Paper , 2016. Project Risk Management: Lessons Learned from Software Development Environment,” Y. 255, April 2010. 920, November 2004.

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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. 2128, International Technical Paper , 2016.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L.

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