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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? The Economics of Risk Management. Negative risks are called threats, and positive risks are called opportunities.

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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. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister. Risk Management Papers. “A México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006.

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

Herding Cats

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . First, the only risk that can be reduced is the risk created by Epistemic Uncertainty. Making things small does not reduce the risk it may make the uncertainty smaller.

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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. Effective Risk Management 2nd Edition, Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. Risk a Feelings,” George F.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. Most post-mortems of these software disaster projects have shown that their problems would have been avoided or strongly reduced if there had been an explicit early concern with identifying and resolving their high-risk elements. Now To Risk Management. Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives.

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Seven Project Management Influencers to Watch

Project Risk Coach

Elizabeth Harrin is the creator of A Girl’s Guide to Project Management which she started in 2006. Another thing I appreciate about Kiron is that he not only is a Project Management Professional (PMP), he is certified as a Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP), along with other certifications. His perspective on project and risk management is balanced and practical.

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How to Improve Your Project Interpersonal Skills

Project Risk Coach

If you wish to be a great project manager, focus not only on your technical skills but seek to improve your project interpersonal skills. Extraordinary project managers know how to relate to others when things are going as planned as well as on days filled with undesirable events. Perhaps you’ve faced situations like these: A team member constantly treated other team members with disrespect. Your team was in trouble, but your sponsor was unavailable to help.

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What’s in your backlog?

Leading Answers

Risk avoidance and risk reduction activities – Sure, maybe. Here’s a typical backlog showing a combination of features, change requests, bug fixes and a couple of risk reduction activities.   Risks in the Backlog. I have been keen on proactively addressing risks for many years. Just as features deliver value, risks in the form of threats to the project cost money and cause delays - if they occur.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Event-Based Scheduling , 10 November 2006. Risk Management. Five Easy Pieces: The Essentials of Managing Programmatic Risk , 10th Annual Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium, Denver Colorado, April 2008. Managing in the Presence of Uncertainty and Resulting Risk. Programmatic Risk Management, Program Planning and Controls Workshop , Denver, Colorado, 6-14, October 2008. Risk Management.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. Dealing with Aleatory (irreducible) uncertainty and the resulting risk requires we have margin. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value. Epistemic uncertainty can also occur when there is a subjective evaluation of the system - a risk from a rare event or an event with little or no empirical data. One starting point is the value at risk.

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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. It’s easy to find examples of high-profile projects that fail. The ones that hit the papers are often public sector projects because their audits and budgets are more open to scrutiny.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Risk Management (#RM). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Managing projects in the presence of uncertainty means making decisions about cost, schedule, and technical performance all risk-adjusted , from the uncertainties that create risk. But in fact, risk management is part of the other 4 principles as well. Risk Management .

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves , Daniel Galaorath and Michael Evans , Auerbach, 2006. Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006. IT Risk Management. The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Don't hear one?

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

What is their impact, risk and how the item might help in the learning process? In 2006, Sutherland created Scrum, Inc. ,

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

It is the lack of needed knowledge of the state of the system in the present or in the future that creates risk. [1], deterministic world, risk management is a critical success factor for increasing the probability of program success. [4] 4] Risk Never Occurs Without a Cause, that Cause is Uncertainty ? Risk is the Outcome of Uncertainty. 212279, February 2006. IT Risk Management. Herding Cats: Risk, Their Sources, and Handling Strategies.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

Kozlowski & Ilgen (2006) describe this reciprocity as “process begets structure, which in turn guides process”. Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. 2006).

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

It is the lack of needed knowledge of the state of the system in the present or in the future that creates risk. [1], deterministic world, risk management is a critical success factor for increasing the probability of program success. [4] 4] Risk Never Occurs Without a Cause, that Cause is Uncertainty ? Risk is the Outcome of Uncertainty. 212279, February 2006. IT Risk Management. Herding Cats: Risk, Their Sources, and Handling Strategies.

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CONTEST: My Best Excuse for NOT Acknowledging Someone who Truly Deserves it!

International Institute for Learning

Umlas ©2006 IIL Publishing Monique’s sad and heavy-hearted tale is easy to understand and is unfortunately (too) great an excuse not to acknowledge others. Take the risk of being a bit inappropriate if you worry about that. So take the risk, and JUST DO IT! By Judith W. Umlas.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

Herding Cats

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Inadequate assessment of risks and unmitigated exposure to these risks with proper handling plans. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. .

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Trois

Herding Cats

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Inadequate assessment of risks and unmitigated exposure to these risks with proper handling plans. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. .

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Estimating Agile Projects.Or Not

Leading Answers

"The Same Poor Results, But with Much Less Effort" Around 2006 at the agile conferences, I recall a presentation by Motorola on the effectiveness of using planning poker estimation compared to its previous, high-rigor approach.

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Strategic Project Management: How To Align Work With Business Goals?

Teamweek

It has been around since 2006. Improves business visibility: Risks and opportunities spotted during project execution mean you can review your business goals as things change instead of waiting for the annual review. So project teams can spot risks and opportunities early.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

Herding Cats

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Inadequate assessment of risks and unmitigated exposure to these risks with proper handling plans. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. .

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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. Everybody’s head is in the cloud nowadays. The phrase has shifted its meaning, however.

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The 5 Best Free Smartsheet Alternatives of 2019

nTask

Introduced in 2006, with a major redesign in 2010, the platform serves as a single systematic and flexible solution for all the task management needs of a team. Issues and risks management. Issues and Risks management to tackle their occurrence likelihood. Free – up to 5 projects, 5 free workspaces, unlimited tasks, unlimited meetings, 5 MBs file attachment size, 200 MBs of storage space, issues and risks tracking, timesheets. Risk analysis and control.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Software effort estimation terminology: The tower of Babel,” Stein Grimstad, Magne Jørgensen, Kjetil Moløkken-Østvold, Information and Software Technology 48 (2006) 302–310. Software effort estimation terminology: The tower of Babel,” Stein Grimstad, Magne Jørgensen, Kjetil Moløkken-Østvold, Information and Software Technology , 48 (2006) 302–310. “A Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006. ” Haugen, Proceedings of AGILE 2006 Conference (AGILE’06). “A

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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). 2006).

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PMI’s Pulse of the Profession 2020: Creating a Future-Oriented Project Management Culture

Inloox

The Project Management Institute (PMI) has been conducting surveys, questioning international organizations and project managers on a regular basis since 2006. Companies that cling to the status quo run the risk of being left behind.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

Morgan (2006) explores the roots of this mechanical perspective?—?or Morgan (2006) draws attention to its deeply reductionist nature. There is much to say about the differences between these perspectives (see also Morgan, 2006). 2006). 2006).

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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World. Published date: 2006 (Revised edition). Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World. Project managers working on large and complex projects who want to learn how to minimize risk.

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Route to Enterprise Scale Agility

Digite

What are the key risks in the adoption and scaling of Kanban to drive enterprise agility? It is a truly a low risk, high impact approach to improving business performance. Finally, if you’ve truly moved to pull you can understand business risks such as the cost of delay, offering different business services models, based on urgency and risk, with service delivery implemented through capacity hedged classes of service.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

179, 2006. Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc. 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. 123, 2006. “A Monte Carlo Method in risk analysis for investment projects,” Victor Platon and Andreea Constantinescu, Proceedia Economics and Finance, 15 pp.

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How oragnizations and companies become and remain innovative

Inloox

That's because prioritizing now involves selecting projects from a portfolio of innovation initiatives that offer the greatest benefit and managing risk, because innovation is inherently risky. In this way, they reduce the risk of being too dependent on their core business, which could well be threatened by disruptive developments and swept away. If you want innovation, you must also be prepared to take risks.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Revisited

Herding Cats

One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management. Since reducible and irreducible uncertainties create risk, those uncertainties need to be reduced as the project proceeds for the probability of project success to increase. The Cone of Uncertainty,” Stephen Gryphon, Phillippe Kruchten, and Steve McConnell, Letters, IEEE Software , 23 (5) 2006, pp 8?10.

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Project collaboration: the key to successful project management (and happy teams)

Resource Guru

You can collaborate as much as you want, but if you don’t get resource scheduling right, your project runs the risk of failure. That way, you’re reducing the risk of running into unnecessary conflict.

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Project Portfolio Management Works for More Than Just IT

Meisterplan

In 2006, Anand Sanwal, CEO of CB Insights, and former VP of American Express, said, “I remain amazed at how the entire portfolio management discipline has become largely focused on enabling corporate portfolio management for IT investments. You have to decide what criteria makes the most sense for your organization (for example, criteria based on strategic objectives, revenue, ROI, or risk).

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10 Resource Planning Tools For Stress-free Project Delivery (2023)

Teamweek

Founded in 2006, it already has over five million users. Poor resource management is one of the biggest reasons for project failure. If you too struggle to balance project demand and team utilization, it’s time to look at resource planning tools.

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Best Redmine Alternatives in 2021

nTask

Released in 2006, Redmine is a project management tool that was the go-to choice for many teams and individuals. Issue and risk management. Risk analysis.

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The Ultimate Redmine Guide: How to set up and supercharge the best open source project management tool

Planio

Since Jean-Philippe Lang released the first version of Redmine in 2006, an active community has sprung up to optimize and expand the original code. Redmine was launched in 2006 and is still being regularly updated.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Schedule Estimation and Uncertainty Surrounding the Cone of Uncertainty," Todd Little, IEEE Software , May/June 2006. IT Risk Management. The Cone of Uncertainty is a useful approach to defining the expected range of uncertainty at specific stages in a project. The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? Steve McConnell.

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