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The IIL Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2023
By Eugene Bounds and Steve Ackert Recently, the buzzword artificial intelligence (AI) has been on everyone’s minds, not just in the tech world but across many industries, including project management. For over a quarter of a century, the Standish Group has tracked, reported, and improved software-intensive project success rates. [1]
Herding Cats
MAY 10, 2019
Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. Risk Management Papers. “A
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Herding Cats
MAY 11, 2019
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. reducible and irreducible ? De Meyer, C.
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MAY 7, 2019
The reason for this resource page is the lack of understanding of how to estimate, the urban myths about software estimating, and the fallacies that estimating is not needed, when developing software, in the presence of uncertainty, when spending other peoples money. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.
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NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). 8, August 1995.
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MARCH 11, 2017
Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. Our perception of this world - the data and information we receive about these behaviors. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project.
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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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