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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. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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The Agile Cannon

Herding Cats

Loss of control creates risk of failure. Compensate for cost variation by including risk reduction metrics. Establish a Zero backlog approach to planning - Scrum creates Sprint Backlog. Highly effective Scrum teams have seven items in Sprint Backlog. Embrace objectivity. Proactively Experiment to Improve. Forces on WIP .

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. Dealing with Aleatory (irreducible) uncertainty and the resulting risk requires we have margin. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value. One starting point is the value at risk.

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A Digital Service Canvas for Government and Enterprise

Scrum.org

Have you ever tried to kickstart a “Scrum of Scrums” in an organization? I suppose a Scrum of Scrums is a bit like a start-up: there has to be a real value proposition. The original is Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas , proposed in 2008. Lessons from a start-up. Two variations are most commonly encountered.

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Can the Words “Innovation” and “Project Management” Be Used In The Same Sentence?

The IIL Blog

According to management guru Peter Drucker, there are only two sources for growth: marketing and innovation [Drucker, 2008]. Continuous innovation is needed, regardless of current economic conditions, to provide a firm with a sustainable competitive advantage and to differentiate themselves from their competitors.

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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World. Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. Project managers adopting the Scrum methodology or who want to upgrade their team-leading abilities. Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management.

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