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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Change control or change management is the process of managing unplanned but desired influences on the project. Example of scope creep in software development. What causes scope creep? Larson, R. &

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Deliverables Based Planning: Providing Actional Information to the Program Manager , 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium, 2009. Increasing the Probability of Success , Dallas MPUG, May 6th, 2009. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008. Agile Project Management.

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Fallacy of the Day

Herding Cats

Estimation is pretentious rationalism, where rationalism does not serve us well (extremistan)(sic) Take only risks you can survive. These estimates can not the ultimate truth since the underlying processes that create the uncertainties (aleatory and epistemic) are stochastic in nature - stationary or nonstationary. The Fallacy.

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Acting Like an Adult in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

There are two kinds of uncertainty on all projects, no matter the domain, including software development projects. The alternatives can involve a large number of uncertainties about the factors that influence the ultimate outcomes. The Notion of Enterprise Software Development. Quote of the Day.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. 5887, 2009. Estimation of Long?Term Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ? Kwak and J.

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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. requires making estimates) ? 5887, 2009.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Making changes late in the development cycle has significant impacts on the verification and validation of the system no matter the software development method. . A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management. It's as simple as that.