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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. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves , Daniel Galaorath and Michael Evans , Auerbach, 2006. Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum , Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, Addison Wesley, 2010.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. Dealing with Aleatory (irreducible) uncertainty and the resulting risk requires we have margin. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value. One starting point is the value at risk.

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What is Taylorism, and why Waterfall is just the tip of the iceberg!

Scrum.org

The thinking goes like this: Ideas and innovation from your workers were a risk to your business and thus must be eliminated. In the complex world of Sales, Marketing, and Software Development, we also needed new ways of thinking that would power the same ideas from Toyota and Lean into the high variance world of complex cognitive work.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

What was that, probably 2004, or ’05 or something in that kind of range, I think? And in those days, so if this was 2004, 2005, something in that kind of range, in those days, then, you know, for the most part, Agile was still maybe one team of six, or eight, or 10. – Sure, sure. – [Brian] Yeah, something like that.

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The Best Smartsheet Alternatives for Project Management

Wrike

Some teams might naturally lean towards a spreadsheet-based option such as Smartsheet, which will feel familiar to those who are keen on Microsoft Excel. Real-time updates and live changes Who has time to hit “refresh” over and over again like it’s 2004? It’s also one of the smoothest platforms on the market, providing its 2.4m