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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

Scrum.org

All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business. So why is so much of software opaque to the business? All technical debt is risk to the product and to your business. There is no asset securing that risk, no insurance for it. Technical debt is 100% risk. Technical debt is like an unhedged fund!

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach, Thord Edition , Norma Fenton and James Bieman.

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Five Critical Aspects of A 21st-Century Digital Enterprise

The IIL Blog

Cybersecurity is not the problem that needs to be fixed; it’s the digital enterprise’s capability to manage its digital business risk, with cybersecurity only playing a small part. Digital Value Management System Let’s start with a new mental model focusing on creating and protecting digital business value. Well, everything.

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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. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister.

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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. reducible and irreducible

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Decision Making On Software Development Projects

Herding Cats

Decision Making on Software Development Projects Is Both Simple and Complex at the Same Time. All Uncertainty Creates Risk. Reducible risk requires estimating the probability distribution of the occurrence. Irreducible risk requires estimating the statistical distribution of the naturally occurring processes.

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Agile Project Management Principles - MOving from Principles to Practices

Herding Cats

Agile Program Management contains practices found in traditional program management, delivered through the principles of agile. For the traditional program manager, this description is likely meaningless. Where Does the Problem Start with Traditional Program Management? There are several official descriptions of agile.

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