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When projects go wrong and it's the worst possible moment

Susanne Madsen

When the bridge was reopened in 2002 it had cost an additional £5million ponds. But although the Opera House is a national symbol and has been recognised as an incredible feat of architecture, it’s one of the best-known case studies of a failed infrastructure project.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

3, March 2002. 11 November 2002. Conrow, Cutter IT Journal , February 2002. “A “A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N., IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 5, September/October 2011. Evaluation of the Risk Analysis and Cost Management (RACM) Model,” Matthew S.

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Top Solutions to Project Failure – Epicflow Research Part 2

Epicflow Blog

Merrow (Wiley, 2011), recommended by Giorgio Locatelli , an Associate Professor of Infrastructure Procurement and Management at the University of Leeds. Glass ( Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002), also recommended by Giorgio Locatelli. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

3, March 2002. 11 November 2002. Conrow, Cutter IT Journal , February 2002. “A “A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N., IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 5, September/October 2011. Evaluation of the Risk Analysis and Cost Management (RACM) Model,” Matthew S.

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Defensive Programming Grows Up

Leading Agile

Cloud infrastructures make it seem as if an application is long-lived, while in reality servers are being destroyed and re-created under the covers all the time. In a 2002 piece entitled The Law of Leaky Abstractions , Joel Spolsky observed that abstractions over any implementation can leak details of that implementation.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Loch, and Arnoud De Meyer, Management Science © 2002 INFORMS, Vol. 8, August 2002 pp. Risk and uncertainty in project management decision-making,” Karolina Koleczko, Public Infrastructure Bulletin, Vol. On Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Complexity in Project Management,” Michael T. Pich, Christoph H. 8 [2012], Art. De Meyer, C.

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What’s Worse Than Not Automating Your Software Delivery Pipeline?

Leading Agile

The infrastructure can handle dynamic destruction and creation of OS instances and application components as VMs and/or containers. Some of the contemporary approaches to operations include ideas like infrastructure as code and phoenix servers. It’s possible to set things up such that no VM has a root account.