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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk in addition to the usual features associated with delivering value.

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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Airbus A380 was due to take to the skies in 2006. Instead, tax payers have footed the bill. The Channel Tunnel construction project saw its budget rise from £4.8 billion to £10.9 The international team did not use compatible design software which led to snowballing problems.

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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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In-Depth: How Coherence And Cohesion Are Critical To Scrum

Scrum.org

Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. High cohesion also comes with risks, such as groupthink and conformity to group opinions (McCauley, 1998). Group processes: Dynamics within and between groups.

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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. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., There is risk that burnout can spread to the entire team if not identified and controlled. 2014), and Jugdev et al., Dawood, Shariffah; Pinto , Mary Beth.,

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What Is Cloud Storage, and How Are Innovative Companies Using It?

ProjectManager.com

But the elephant in the room is Amazon Web Services, which launched in 2006, and has since become the recognized leader in cloud storage. Some of the disadvantages include the risk to security and the potential of unauthorized access to data. It was a risk that paid off handsomely for the company, but it involved innovative thinking.