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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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What Comes Next After Scrum?

Scrum.org

Since I first started working with Scrum in 2005, I have wondered what would eventually come along to replace it. Over the last 5 years, more organisations are seeking to use Scrum beyond software. I am now regularly helping Leadership, Marketing, Sales & HR teams as well as continuing to help those with an IT/software focus.

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IT Governance: Definitions, Frameworks and Planning

ProjectManager.com

At its base level, IT governance is one or multiple processes that enable the IT staff to better manage risk and operate at its most efficient to the benefit of the organization on the whole. Assess risks associated with the IT department and mitigate as needed. What is IT Governance? Oversee the performance of IT managers.

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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The international team did not use compatible design software which led to snowballing problems. The Scottish Parliament may well have been over budget and delayed, but it was a success in the eyes of the may when the innovative building, designed by Enric Miralles, won the Stirling prize for architecture in 2005. billion to £10.9

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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. Let’s start with strategies that are risk-informed and risk-optimized to produce business objectives that create and protect 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. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Quick Guide to User Story Mapping

ProjectManager.com

He literally wrote the book about it, It’s All in How You Slice It , which came out in 2005. The idea of a user story as it applies here comes from software development and product management. A user story is an informal description of one or more software features, written from the perspective of an end user in plain English.