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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Don't hear one?

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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. requires making estimates) ? 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. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. First, let's establish a principle.

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3 Questions That Must Be Asked at Every Project Management Meeting

Herding Cats

For software projects, Scrum can be used. Of course, each of these questions and answers must be risk-adjusted since. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister. Risk-Informed Decision Making , NASA/SP-2010-576. See Incremental Commitment Spiral Model for large traditional projects. Resources

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

Herding Cats

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk.

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

When I first started thinking through this idea, I was actually really thinking about the idea of practices because back in 2010, a little bit earlier than that, Jim Kundiff, the Scrum Alliance, and those guys were really popularizing the CSM certification, PMI was doing the PMI ACP or a lot of us were part of that.