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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Deliberate Ignorance in Project Risk Management,” Elmar Kutsch and Mark Hall, International Journal of Project Management , Volume 28, Issue 3, pp. 255, April 2010.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. How to identify risky IT projects and avoid them turning into black swans,” Magne Jørgensen, Ernst & Young: Nordic Advisory Learning Weekend, Riga, 2016. April, 2010.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. 255, April 2010. Use of Benefits of Tools for Project Risk Management,” T.

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Software Cost Accounting

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In iterative or agile development, as management consultant and agile specialist, Craig Larman , explains, technological feasibility is reached after a number of iterations (called sprints in the Scrum methodology) after which capitalization can start. Accounting for Software Development. Why Should Agilest Care About Capitalization ?

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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WS-05: Coming Late to the Party - Getting to GREEN on the Fly - Using the structure of a Greek play - the setting, the protagonist, the imbalance, the balance, and the solution, show how to increase the probability of program success.PMI CPM, Professional Education Program, June 2010. . College of Performance Management , November 2013.

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Software Estimating Resources

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“Issues in Software Cost Estimation,” Abedallah Zaid, Mohd Hasan Selamat, Abdual Azim, Abd Ghani, Rodziah Atan, Tieng Wei Koh, “Management Accounting – Enterprise Performance Management,” Group?IV, 15, The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, 2010. Evaluating Project Decisions,” INTAVER Institute.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Andreou, 3rd Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Software Engineering Workshop , 7 October, 2010, Larnaca, Cyprus. Johnson, STC 2010.