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Managing Risk from Every Level of Your Organization

LiquidPlanner

This notion of contingency analysis shows that when planning or budgeting, we must account for foreseeable risk and factor in the optimal route required with the minimum number of possible detours. Risk is not solved with a calculation. Project leaders need to ask: are some foreseen risks not occurring?

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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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Understanding Risk Breakdown Structure

Wrike

When it comes to risk management , a risk breakdown structure is a powerful tool in a project manager’s toolkit. According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), a project risk is defined as “an uncertain event that, if it occurred, has an effect on at least one project objective.” . What is RBS in project management? .

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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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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. In the era of V.U.C.A, learning is necessary than knowing. .

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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: How Coherence And Cohesion Are Critical To Scrum

Scrum.org

High cohesion also comes with risks, such as groupthink and conformity to group opinions (McCauley, 1998). Organizational psychologists found that motivation is higher in cohesive groups (Beal et. They also tend to perform better (Evans & Dion, 2012), are better able to deal with stress and pressure (Salas, Driskell & Hughes, 1996).

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