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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. 79, 2008. “`,” Stephen Ward and Chris Chapman , International Journal of Project Management , 21, pp. 3, 2016.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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. Effective Risk Management 2nd Edition, Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Short History of Project Management

MPUG

Another major project related happening was the growing popularity of value engineering (VE), which was widely used at General Electric. This functioned to help measure the value of alternatives (for example, using cheaper resources and/or materials to reduce project costs or design-to-cost) especially when there was a scarcity of resources.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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These five principles of project success are stated as questions that need to be answered using units of measure meaningful to the decision makers, College of Performance Management , Measurable News, 2017. College of Performance Management , EVM World 2017. March 6, 2003. EVM World 2017.

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Software Estimating Resources

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Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. The contribution of mathematical modelling to the practice of project management,” Terry Williams, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, Volume 14, Issue 1, Jan. Prakash and V.