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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Don't hear one?

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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. requires making estimates) ? Risk Management Papers. “A

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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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EPM Spelled Out

MPUG

2004, Enterprise Project Management, p. To begin this decision process, they would have to analyze existing projects to determine if the right projects were selected, and whether the project slate is less than optimal in terms of size, risk, profitability, and strategic fit compared to their organizational goals. Ireland, L.,

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. An Introduction to IMP/IMS , 17 Oct 2004. Risk Management. Five Easy Pieces: The Essentials of Managing Programmatic Risk , 10th Annual Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium, Denver Colorado, April 2008. Handling Risk on High Technology Programs.

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Managing Virtual Teams Successfully

The IIL Blog

First let’s keep the concept of ROI basic, which is in this context: Applying this equation to a real-life example, if the cost for rolling out a SMILE activity = $10,000 and the estimated value of the program is $100,000 (considering quantitative and/or qualitative factors such as listed above): This number is not exaggerated.

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#NoEstimates Book Review - Part 1

Herding Cats

I got the Kindle version, so I have a $10 investment at risk. This graph is from old 2004 numbers. Many times the books uses 12, 16, even 25 year old reports as the basis of the suggestion that Not Estimating fixes the problems in the reports. If the project was over budget, was the needed budget estimate correct?