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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Applying Deliverables Based Planning ® To Increase Our Probability of Success , PMI Fort Worth, Chapter Meeting, 15 July 2010. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008.

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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

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262 pages, ET to read: 4 hours, Published April 7th, 2010 by Blue Hole Press). This is the original book where David Anderson first laid down the definition of and guidance to the Kanban Method for software and knowledge work. David Anderson, who is widely regarded as the Kanban Method pioneer published this book in 2010.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L. 12, 2008. “A

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

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The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? Steve McConnell. Quantifying IT Forecast Quality,” J. Eveleens and C. GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide," GAO-09-3SP.

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Risk Management Resources

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255, April 2010. Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. 24, 2010. “A Project Risk Management: Lessons Learned from Software Development Environment,” Y. 920, November 2004. Kwak and J. Yamamoto, and K.

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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. 255, April 2010. 24, 2010. “A Kwak and J.

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Agile Unplugged EP04 | Mike Cottmeyer and Matt Van Vleet

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So we first worked together, I guess it was probably back in like late 2009, 2010. Talk to me about some of the challenges that you had taking it straight from a software development perspective. I wasn’t actually trying to help anybody get better at software development per se, or product management per se.