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MARCH 17, 2019

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Project Governance. Presentations and Briefings. Project Breathalyzer.

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2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

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MARCH 11, 2018

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Editors, Springer, 2011.

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Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

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MAY 7, 2019

Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Wilson, Proceedings of the 1990 Winter Simulation Conference, IEEE. “On Chakraborty and K.

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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. A Correction fixed the immediate non-conformance. All for the want of a nail.

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2014 Aerospace 2011 2013 45

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

“Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). The Use of Precision of Software Development Effort Estimates to Communicate Uncertainty,” Magne Jørgensen, Software Quality Days.

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MARCH 11, 2017

“Quantifying Uncertainty in Early Lifecycle Cost Estimation (QUELCE),” Robert Ferguson, Dennis Goldenson, James McCurley, Robert Stoddard, David Zubrow, and Debra Anderson, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-2011-TR-026 ESC-TR-2011-026. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E.

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MAY 10, 2019

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 5, September/October 2011. Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. Turof, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering , 400, 2018. “A 3, March 2002.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38