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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As such, you may have a bit more influence on these if appropriate actions are taken early. External risks can occur due to a variety of factors, often caused by influences more outside of our immediate control. Poor estimating. Sometimes the estimates are just rubbish. Internal risks occur within the organization.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008. Five Easy Pieces: The Essentials of Managing Programmatic Risk , 10th Annual Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium, Denver Colorado, April 2008. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate. Basis of Estimate Process.

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Part II: A Simplified Approach to Determine IT Project Complexity

PM Times

“For instance, large-scale engineering and construction projects are considered to be complicated projects, but they may not necessarily be complex projects (provided that the interactions with and the influences of the environment are trivial or rather predictable). The field of Project Complexity is wide-open and not well defined.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

requires making estimates) ? 79, 2008. “`,” Stephen Ward and Chris Chapman , International Journal of Project Management , 21, pp. Estimation of Long?Term ius, KSI Transactions on Knowledge Society, Volume 1, Number 3, 2008. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ? reducible and irreducible ? 1994): 707-712.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

requires making estimates) ? 79, 2008. “`,” Stephen Ward and Chris Chapman , International Journal of Project Management , 21, pp. Estimation of Long?Term ius, KSI Transactions on Knowledge Society, Volume 1, Number 3, 2008. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ? reducible and irreducible ? 1994): 707-712.

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

Scrum.org

Initially coined by cognitive psychologist Lee Ross (1977), it happens when people underestimate the influence of the situation on the behavior of others while overestimating the influence of their personal traits and beliefs (Berry, 2015). When teams estimate work, hearing an initial estimate is likely to “anchor” further estimates.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

When we hear about software development disasters and then hear that estimates are to blame, and NOT Estimating will somehow reduce or prevent these disasters, think again. Each of the categories operates in the presence of uncertainty and requires that estimates be made about the probability, conseqeunce of the resutling risk.