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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. 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.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Although the concept has many different definitions, a characteristic they share is that members move in and out of a team during its lifetime. The need for fluid teams.

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Is Blue-print Thinking Limiting The Potential Of The Agile Community?

Scrum.org

Do you start a new Scrum team by explaining the roles, artifacts, and events? And not because frameworks are categorically bad (they aren’t). Mirriam-Webster defines it as “a basic conceptual structure of ideas” or as a “skeletal frame”. You may be engaging in a bit too much blueprint thinking. I think this is problematic.

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The Definitive Guide to Project Sponsors

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You’ll learn tips and techniques for engaging senior leaders in the role so you can build effective working relationships and act as a team. to support the team at the request of the project manager. They will be able to identify new risks and make the team aware of what is happening elsewhere in the organization.

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Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

Herding Cats

It's the Planning and Controls processes working together with the Technical Development processes that provide the ability to forecast what should happen in the future if we keep going like we are going now using a Model of the possible future outcomes. The life-cycle processes of a project can be defined by ISO15288 as.

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Do you have a CRACK PO? (and a book review)

Kiron Bondale

In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. toxic culture, poor compensation) which are preventing you from attracting them, and in a pinch, contracting might be the way to go. Eric’s company develops and sells a number of add-on products to MS Project.