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Managing Risk from Every Level of Your Organization

LiquidPlanner

How does the reconciliation of known and emerging risks impact the project team’s estimate of the remaining contingency plan? “A 2003, September 25). Www.irmi.com, July 2007, www.irmi.com/articles/expert-commentary/risk-management-practices-cannot-be-bolted-on. Project leaders need to ask: are some foreseen risks not occurring?

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Managment Processes. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . 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.

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AI Assistants for Project Managers

Leading Answers

While writing this article, AI in Microsoft Word and the add-in Grammarly helped protect you, from the bulk of my spelling and grammar mistakes. Do you analyze backlogs and scope outlines for potential risks, or review estimates for commonly missed activities? Predictions like “AI will take our jobs” sound scary.

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AI Assistants for Project Managers

Leading Answers

While writing this article, AI in Microsoft Word and the add-in Grammarly helped protect you from the bulk of my spelling and grammar mistakes. Do you analyze backlogs and scope outlines for potential risks, or review estimates for commonly missed activities? Predictions like “AI will take our jobs” sound scary.

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Incremental Commitment Spiral Model

Herding Cats

Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History," Craig Larman and Victor Basili, IEEE Computer , June 2003. Related articles. Herding Cats: The Classic Misunderstanding between Principles, Practices, and Process. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. IT Risk Management.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Herding Cats

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . Let's look at what an estimate is.