Remove 2010 Remove Meeting Remove Risk Remove Software Development
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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. reducible and irreducible ?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Applying Deliverables Based Planning ® To Increase Our Probability of Success , PMI Fort Worth, Chapter Meeting, 15 July 2010. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016.

2003 54
article thumbnail

Product Management Considerations for Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

The product manager is operationally focused on functions such as market research, product development, and ensuring products meet customer needs and company goals. Challenges include solving product failures, meeting tight deadlines, and managing cross-departmental communication.

article thumbnail

Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

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.

2003 46
article thumbnail

Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

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 ? Domain-Based Effort Distribution Model for Software Cost Estimation,” Thomas Tan, University of Southern California, 2012.

2012 48
article thumbnail

What Makes A Developer Culture?

Scrum.org

Agile software development started with developers. Agile software development was started by developers. Starting out with a strong focus on website development, I built my first site for them in 2002, first as a freelancer later as an employee. Create an environment where you can take risks.

SCRUM 139