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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Kadane, and Anthony O’Hagan, Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics & Data Science, January 5, 2005. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? Elsevier, 2005. 2, 2017.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? Elsevier, 2005.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Managing projects in the presence of uncertainty means making decisions about cost, schedule, and technical performance all risk-adjusted , from the uncertainties that create risk.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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Define Reference Classes for those Capabilities and the Features that implement them. Define the probabilistic ranges of the work in a single point estimate manner. Define the probabilistic ranges of the work in a single point estimate manner. Define the upper and lower bounds of this Most Likely value.