Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We have three kids (2001, 2003, 2013) of which the two oldest (sons) have a disability ( Duchenne and Down Syndrome ). Money was not what drove my wife and I when I gave up my position as software engineer and aspiring project manager in favor of running a bookshop (1996). Let there be no misunderstanding: money is important.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. Aleatory uncertainty is expressed as a process variability. First, let's establish a principle.

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MAY 10, 2019

Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 105, 2003. “A

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MAY 11, 2019

Effective Risk Management 2nd Edition, Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. A Taxonomy-based Model for Identifying Risks, Sebastian Maniasi, Paola Veronica Britos, and Ramon Garcia-Mertinez, JIISIC'06 - V Jornadas Iberoamericanas de Ingeniería de Software e Ingeniería del Conocimiento, Memoria Técnica, Proceedings, Puebla, Pue. 105, 2003. “A

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Oriented Perspective , 1st Edition, Terje Aven, John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Management for Engineers and Scientist 2nd Edition , Ernest J. Agile Risk Management and Scrum , Alan Moran, Institute for Agile Risk Management, 2014. Effective Risk Management , 2nd Edition, Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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MAY 7, 2019

So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. Laplante, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes , Vol.

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