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AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management.

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JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. 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. These principles originate in: .

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Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

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JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute (in this post, cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

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FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). The Cone is NOT the result of the project's past performance.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

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JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Active reduction requires we have a desired reduction goal, perform the work, and measure progress toward the rduction goal. Measure of Effectiveness.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). The Cone is NOT the result of the project's past performance.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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JUNE 4, 2016

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth. This community of program controls, cost analyst, earned value managers and program managers is accountable for providing information to decision makers on enterprise and complex projects and programs. Technical Performance Measures.

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Software Engineering Performance Measurement Finance Manufacturing 28

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JUNE 7, 2018

Risk interaction within systems and subsystems, between functional and physical elements, can also be modeled with DSM. DSM models interacting risks in a graphical representation produce numerical simulations of the risk and impacts on the probability of program success. Traditional risk models cannot model loops.

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MARCH 4, 2017

Let's say you're the project or program manager of a large complex system. We cannot escape these two uncertainties - reducible and irreducible - and must learn how to manage in the presence of these uncertainties. Is each of these measures being met for the planned cost at the planned time? . Abstracted from [3].

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2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

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AUGUST 27, 2017

That's why I strive to create an environment with mutual trust between the engineers and the different stakeholders. We engineers should always keep in mind that software development is usually one part of many others inside the company. This is standard Product Management.

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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

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JUNE 7, 2018

Risk interaction within systems and subsystems, between functional and physical elements, can also be modeled with DSM. DSM models interacting risks in a graphical representation produce numerical simulations of the risk and impacts on the probability of program success. Traditional risk models cannot model loops.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 28

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Here's an extract from "Chapter 8: Human Behavior and Complexity," Terry Cooke-Davies, in Aspects of Complexity: Managing Projects in a Complex World. This is a cautionary tale for those listening to the #NoEstimates advocates, where anecdotes of bad management are used in an attempt to replace established principles of business management.

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