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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? A New Perspective,” Olga Perminova, Magus Gustafsson, and Lim Wikström, International Journal of Project Management , 26, pp. 1994): 707-712.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? Hammonds, Risk Analysis 14.5

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Analyse Changing Risk of Organizational Factors in Agile Project Management,” Shi Tong, Chen Jianbin, and Fang DeYing, The 1st International Conference on Information Science and Engineering (ICISE2009).

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. and Dutta, P., Alleman, G. Coonce, T. and Price, R. Flyvbjerg, B.,

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Software Estimating Resources

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Effort Estimation for Mobile Applications Using Use Case Point (UCP),” Anureet Kaur and Kulwant Kaur, Smart Innovations in Communication and Computational Sciences. 11, November 2008. Modeling Uncertainty when Estimating IT Projects Costs,” Michel Winter, Isabelle Mirbel, Pierre Crescenzo, Research Report, I3S, 2014.

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The Best Time Tracking Software of 2018

Paymo App

Paymo is a project management and time tracking software that supports management professionals and freelancers deliver projects throughout their whole lifecycle. The company has been around since 2008 and started out initially as a time tracking and invoicing app. Launched in 2006, they aim to do things the Harvest way.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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Sjøberg1, and Magne Jørgensen, IEEE Software , Volume 25, Issues 3, May-June, 2008. Prediction of project outcome: The Application of Statistical Methods to Earned Value Management and Earned Schedule Performance Indexes,” Walt Lipke, Ofer Zwikael, Kym Henderson, and Frank Anbari, International Journal of Project Management , 27, pp.