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Money is important, but it is not what drives me

Gunther Verheyen

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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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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in Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. And we all know. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister.

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

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Verlag, 2016. Project Risk Quantification: A Practitioner’s Guide to Realistic Cost and Schedule Risk Management , John Hollmann, Probabilistic Publishing 2016. Oriented Perspective , 1st Edition, Terje Aven, John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Effective Risk Management , 2nd Edition, Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Software Estimating Resources

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Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. 21 September 2012.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. Fixed price without fixed specification,” Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory, 15 March 2016. 8, August 1995.