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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. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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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. Management of Novel Projects Under Conditions of High Uncertainty,” A.

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Black Swans

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Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty. Regards other researchers as idiotic, and always operates outside the peer review system. They are not the same, the processes of decision making are not the same.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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Review on Traditional and Agile Cost Estimation Success Factor in Software Development Project,” Zulkefli Mansor, Saadiah Yahya, Noor Habibah Hj Arshad, International Journal on New Computer Architectures and Their Applications (IJNCAA) 1(3): 942–952. Information Technology and Computer Science , 2012, 8, 43–50.

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Black Swans

Herding Cats

Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty. Regards other researchers as idiotic, and always operates outside the peer review system. They are not the same, the processes of decision making are not the same.

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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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Software Estimating Resources

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International Journal of Technology in Education and Science (IJTES), 3(2), 72-84. SW Cost Estimation: Measuring Model Performance of Arbitrary Function Approximators,” Erik Stensrud, Ingunn Myrtveit, Discussion Paper 5/2002, Handelshøyskolen, Norwegian Business School, BI Open Archive. & Zein, S., 9, Issue 3, No.