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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

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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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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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Build Awesome: RoR Devs Wanted

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We didn’t really realize it at the time, but we built and launched the company using many of the concepts that Eric Ries later elegantly defined in his 2008 book The Lean Startup. So, if you’re itching for a new role in which you will directly impact the direction of our growing software company, this could be the gig for you.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

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Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves , Daniel Galaorath and Michael Evans , Auerbach, 2006. Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. IT Risk Management. Let's start with some books. Related articles.

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Real Options and Decision Making for ICT Projects

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"Managing Requirements for Business Value," John Favaro, IEEE Software , March/April 2002. Aligning Software Investment Decisions with the Markets ," Hakan Erdogmus. " 72, 2nd Quarter, 2008, pp. Olagbemiro, Dissertation, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2008. "A IT Risk Management. Related articles.

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Cone of Uncertainty Bibliography

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The CoU is a build-to paradigm, where measures of the program's performance cumulative to date is used to inform the risk for future performance. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , 57 (4), pp. Olagbemiro, Naval Postgraduate School Dissertation, December 2008. There is NO data needed to use the CoU. Newnes, Linda B.,