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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Project Management

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He received the PMI Fellow award in 2017. He additionally served as Director of Civil Agencies at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute and as Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton. Euguene earned an M.S. degree in Information Systems from the University of Southern California and a B.B.A.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. A final Thought . Kirchler, D. Andersson, C.

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Cone of Uncertainty Bibliography

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The CoU is a build-to paradigm, where measures of the program's performance cumulative to date is used to inform the risk for future performance. Sizing Challenges," Victor Fuster & Taylor Putnam-Majarian, Software and IT-CASR Proceedings , 22-24 August 2017. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , 57 (4), pp.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. A final Thought . Kirchler, D. Andersson, C.

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

Herding Cats

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk.