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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

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" Probably the most famous of all management laws is attributed to American military pilot and aerospace engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. " Larry Constantine is a software engineer and designer who pioneered the Structured Design approach to software development.

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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

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The Aerospace Industry. The aerospace industry has quality assurance, but calls it product assurance, which works in tandem with project management and engineering to avoid catastrophic failures that have a human cost. The Software Industry.

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Software Estimating Resources

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Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Bool, CrossLink: The Aerospace Corporation, Winter, 2000/2001, pp. 61, September 2004.

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

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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. What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects? All for the want of a nail.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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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.