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Risk Management Resources

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. De Meyer, C.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. 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.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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So in the end, if we are to make a decision in the presence of uncertainty, we MUST make estimates to develop a reliable shipping date while producing an accurate and precise estimate of the cost, schedule, and technical performance of the product shipped on that date. Eggstaff, Thomas A.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18. [2]

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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. Why Do Information Technology Projects Fail?” All for the want of a nail.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18. [2]

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. And money in the bank is what software development is about. Traditional software development processes are like watchmaking. 6, No 5, October 2014. [3]