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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. Management of Novel Projects Under Conditions of High Uncertainty,” A. Pich, Working Paper, 21/2006, Cambridge University, Judge Business School.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. Project Managers User's Guide to Risk?based

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Software Cost Accounting

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In iterative or agile development, as management consultant and agile specialist, Craig Larman , explains, technological feasibility is reached after a number of iterations (called sprints in the Scrum methodology) after which capitalization can start. Capitalization and Amortization of Software Costs (Putra), 2009.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. How to identify risky IT projects and avoid them turning into black swans,” Magne Jørgensen, Ernst & Young: Nordic Advisory Learning Weekend, Riga, 2016. “A

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What’s in your backlog?

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Scrum Product Backlogs and Sprint Backlogs. Most people I meet these days were introduced to backlogs through Scrum. The Scrum Guide describes the product backlog as an ordered list of everything that is known to be needed in the product. I ended up creating Risk Burn Down graphs for my projects.

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Software Estimating Resources

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Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Modeling Uncertainty when Estimating IT Projects Costs,” Michel Winter, Isabelle Mirbel, Pierre Crescenzo, Research Report, I3S, 2014. 123, 2006. “A Angelis and I.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Planning and Executing Time-Bound Projects,” Eduardo Miranda, IEEE Computer , March 2002, pp. Google will find these when there is no URL provided.