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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Risks matter. Stuff happens on projects, and if the worst happens, it’s better to know about it in advance. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. What’s a risk again? Internal risks. Lack of support.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. Risk Management Papers. “A

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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. reducible and irreducible ? De Meyer, C.

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Increasing Profitability In Times of a Crisis: How the Right Approach to Project and Resource Management Can Help Improve Business Outcomes

Epicflow Blog

Is it at all possible when a great number of companies are cutting their expenses, postponing new projects, and reducing investments in an attempt to survive? The right approach to project and resource management can really help business organizations to become profitable and competitive even during tough times. In fact, it is!

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Black Swans

Herding Cats

Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty. All is good so far until he mentions these concepts are applicable to the management of projects. Acquiring Data Retires Risk. Pich, Christoph H.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Turns out in the real world there is no such project. Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. Our knowledge of this world - the planned and actual behaviors of the project. One starting point is the value at risk.

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Black Swans

Herding Cats

Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty. All is good so far until he mentions these concepts are applicable to the management of projects. Acquiring Data Retires Risk. Pich, Christoph H.

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