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

International Institute for Learning

The “Trini work culture” was denoted and the team reached no new goals and barely maintained the sustainability of past results. 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. So take the risk, and JUST DO IT!

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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. It was replicated at Robert Bosch’s South Bend, Indiana facility in 2006. Would you say that the Kanban method is achieving all it can?

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Guide to Hiring International Employees (With 11 Tips)

Teamweek

International workforces are more productive, more inclusive, and more sustainable. Fun fact — that was the initial bottleneck that led to Toggl becoming a remote company back in 2006! The warning: It’s important to be wary of potential risks like misclassification.

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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. One starting point is the value at risk.

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How oragnizations and companies become and remain innovative

Inloox

Although innovative capability is considered desirable for most, indeed all, organizations and companies [[2]], there is relatively little robust empirical research and studies on what organizations can or should do - "undertake" - to be sustainably innovative. If you want innovation, you must also be prepared to take risks.