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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. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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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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Risk Management is Project Management for Adults

Herding Cats

I'm finishing up the charts for a one day workshop at the Project and Program Management Symposium as well as one of the keynote talks and a streaming presentation. The basis of risk management in our community starts with NASA's principles. Risk-Informed Decision Making, NASA/SP-2010-576. This uncertainty creates risk.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) , AACE Workshop, Denver, Colorado, April 16, 2011. Applying Deliverables Based Planning ® To Increase Our Probability of Success , PMI Fort Worth, Chapter Meeting, 15 July 2010. Risk Management.

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Risk Management is Project Management for Adults

Herding Cats

I'm finishing up the charts for a one day workshop at the Project and Program Management Symposium as well as one of the keynote talks and a streaming presentation. The basis of risk management in our community starts with NASA's principles. All risk comes from uncertainty. Risk Management Handbook, NASA/SP-2011-3422.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. Dealing with Aleatory (irreducible) uncertainty and the resulting risk requires we have margin. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value. One starting point is the value at risk.

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What Makes A Developer Culture?

Scrum.org

In 2010 we started a second location in Utrecht that focused on developing HR-related & mission-critical software for brands of our largest customer (USG, Unique, StartPeople, CapitalP). Create an environment where you can take risks. At NowOnline, we made sure to create an environment where people could take risks.

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