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Managing Risk from Every Level of Your Organization

LiquidPlanner

This notion of contingency analysis shows that when planning or budgeting, we must account for foreseeable risk and factor in the optimal route required with the minimum number of possible detours. Risk is not solved with a calculation. Project leaders need to ask: are some foreseen risks not occurring?

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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The international team did not use compatible design software which led to snowballing problems. The Airbus A380 took its maiden transatlantic voyage in March 2007, silencing the critics and proving it could use runways shorter than other smaller jets. A version of this article first appeared on this blog in 2007.

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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). Information and Software Technology , 48 (4), 235–244.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Project Management

The IIL Blog

AI is a branch of computer science that focuses on providing computer hardware and software with the ability to execute intelligent tasks with Generative AI (GenAI) learning and improving with each query. For over a quarter of a century, the Standish Group has tracked, reported, and improved software-intensive project success rates. [1]

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Product-Market Fit: What Is It & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

You can thank Marc Andreessen , the American entrepreneur, investor and software engineer, for the hyphenated phrase. The obvious one is the Apple iPhone, a device that wasn’t unique but captured the imagination of customers so effectively that it’s hard to believe it was only introduced in 2007. What is Product-Market Fit?