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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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“Fixed price without fixed specification,” Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory, 15 March 2016. Springer International Publishing, 2016. Software effort estimation terminology: The tower of Babel,” Stein Grimstad, Magne Jørgensen, Kjetil Moløkken-Østvold, Information and Software Technology 48 (2006) 302–310.

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Software Estimating Resources

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What the Data Say About IT project Risk in the Public Sector,” Alexander Budzier and Bent Flyvbjerg, in Commonwealth Governance Handbook, 2012/2013: Democracy, development, and Public Administration, Commonwealth Secretariat, December 2012. Minku and Xin Yao, Automated Software Engineering, 28 December 2016. “SW 153, 2007 “Overspend?

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Emergent Change – Making Sense of a Messy Environment

Tony Adams

Work with your Project Management Office to understand the wider environment that you are working in – identify the constant, messy, iterative, unplanned bottom-up change drivers that create so much uncertainty – changes in government policy, market threats/opportunities/trends, emerging competitors or products. Further Reading.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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ISO 31000:2009, ISO 17666:2016, and ISO 11231:2010 Risk is Uncertainty that Matters. Thesis Wayne State University, 2016. Alternative Approaches to the Treatment of Epistemic Uncertainties in Risk Assessment,” Institute for Risk and reliability , Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2016. 3, August 2006, pp. Becerril, L.,

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Project Governance. Event-Based Scheduling , 10 November 2006. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016.

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Risk Management Resources

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México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. Pich, Working Paper, 21/2006, Cambridge University, Judge Business School. “A A Complex Systems Perspective of Risk Mitigation and Modeling in Development and Acquisition Programs,” Roshanak Rose Nilchiani, Naval Postgraduate School, Thirtieth Annual Acquisition Research Symposium, April 30, 2016.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. Pich, Working Paper, 21/2006, Cambridge University, Judge Business School. “A A Complex Systems Perspective of Risk Mitigation and Modeling in Development and Acquisition Programs,” Roshanak Rose Nilchiani, Naval Postgraduate School, Thirtieth Annual Acquisition Research Symposium, April 30, 2016.