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Risk Management Resources

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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

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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. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. Dealing with Aleatory (irreducible) uncertainty and the resulting risk requires we have margin. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value. One starting point is the value at risk.

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What Makes A Developer Culture?

Scrum.org

NowOnline started somewhere in 2001. In 2010 we started a second location in Utrecht that focused on developing HR-related & mission-critical software for brands of our largest customer (USG, Unique, StartPeople, CapitalP). Create an environment where you can take risks. Scrum also allowed us to take calculated risks.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

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What is their impact, risk and how the item might help in the learning process? By 2001, Sutherland and Schwaber and 15 other software development leaders created the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Schwaber co-authored with Mike Beedle, the first book on scrum, Agile Software Development with Scrum , in 2001.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

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Research has linked team cognition to higher performance and motivation (Mathieu et al, 2000), increased effectiveness (Kearny, Gebert & Voelpel, 2009), and generally explains a substantial amount of the variance (~19%) in the effectiveness of teams (De Church & Mesmer-Magnus, 2010). J., & McLendon, C. Bonebright, D. Bradley, B. Bowers, J.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Risk Management (#RM). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. But in fact, risk management is part of the other 4 principles as well. Table of Contents (Click the Name to go to Section). Management Processes (#MP).