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Black Swans

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One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. What struck me was how disconnected Taleb is from the profession of project management. The concepts of Taleb and its application to project management is shared by some in the project management community (and now in the No Estimates community).

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Black Swans

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One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. What struck me was how disconnected Taleb is from the profession of project management. The concepts of Taleb and its application to project management is shared by some in the project management community (and now in the No Estimates community).

2002 28
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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. Turns out in the real world there is no such project. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Accuracy - how close is the estimate to the actual value?

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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N., 3, March 2002. 11 November 2002.

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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. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? 3, March 2002. 11 November 2002.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Governance (#Governance). Six Business System Rule - defines the assessment of the integrated business systems for Federal procurement and their integrity in providing information to the Government contracting office. . Agile Universe , 2002.

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Software Estimating Resources

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This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian