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Real Cross-functional Teams for Creating Real and Better Products

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Besides that, she has published her experience in her books Agile Software Development in the Large, Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams, Retrospectives for Organizational Change, and together with Johanna Rothman Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in your Project Portfolio.

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

Herding Cats

This document is all but unknown in the Enterprise IT domain and completely unknown in the agile software development world. This missing document is a root cause of many failures in tradition and agile software development. Thesis, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2007.

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Risk Management Resources

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Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. Turof, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering , 400, 2018. “A Erdem Arikan, 20 th Annual ARCOM Conference , 1?3 255, April 2010. 920, November 2004.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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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. Erdem Arikan, 20 th Annual ARCOM Conference , 1?3

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

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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 ? A Probabilistic Method for Predicting Software Code Growth," Michael Ross, Journal of Cost Analysis and Parametrics 4:127-147, 2011. "10

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

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But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. Gano, Atlas Books, 2007. A Correction fixed the immediate non-conformance.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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“Using the Agile Methodology to Mitigate the Risks of Highly Adaptive Projects,” Dana Roberson and Mary Anne Herndon, 10 th Annual CMMI Technology Conference And User Group , November 5 – 8, 2012, Denver, CO. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E.

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