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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are some high-profile failed projects: Following an internal review, Multiplex, the Australian development company responsible for the reconstruction of the Wembley Stadium, became aware that costs for the project were escalating to the point that the company would make a loss of £750 million on the project. billion to £10.9

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 3, March 2002. “The

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Overcoming the Obstacles to Cultural Change

Leading Agile

I’m not going to introduce myself again, but basically a little bit of my backstory, I never really got to do agile in the small professionally, I was never part of a scrum team. I mean they’re just that big pile of code in the back that takes forever to try to change. I worked with version one for a little while.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

Herding Cats

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. This is due to many reasons. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. We have a target weight at Test Readiness Review of 23KG. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Trois

Herding Cats

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. This is due to many reasons. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. We have a target weight at Test Readiness Review of 23KG. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

Herding Cats

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. This is due to many reasons. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. We have a target weight at Test Readiness Review of 23KG. Prentice-Hall, 1981.