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Managing Risk from Every Level of Your Organization

LiquidPlanner

If project management were an off-road 4×4 expedition, where teams had to plot a course through the unknown, cost and schedule contingency would be akin to the number of spare fuel cans you can carry successfully to complete the trip. Risk is not solved with a calculation. Are there unexpected risks now emerging?

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How much technical knowledge should a Product Owner possess?

Kiron Bondale

In their 2003 book, Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed , Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the well known acronym C.R.A.C.K. In an earlier article I’d written about the pros and cons of a Scrum Master or agile lead having deep technical expertise in the solution space but what about a Product Owner (PO)?

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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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. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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Why is Cognitive Diversity important? How to promote it?

Scrum.org

Intelligence today is divided into many different kinds; Christopher Earley and Soon Ang introduced the concept of "Cultural Intelligence" in the 2003 book of the same name. Cultural intelligence (CQ). If you walk into a new company, you will feel overwhelmed.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Managment Processes. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Top Habits of Successful Project Managers. The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of Performance Management. Flawless Execution.

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Project Innovation and “Crossing the Chasm”

Tony Adams

How does an organisation’s business and innovation context affect the way it approaches project management? We talk a lot about Project Management structure, processes and practices – these are put forward as a way of providing stability and certainty. Where are our innovation priorities?