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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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Economics is the study of how people make decisions in resource-limited situations. Economics has two basis branches: Macroeconomics is the study of how people make decisions in resource-limited situations on a national or global scale. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project.

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Picking a Project Management Methodology

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Federal and state governments. Software development. According to a Standish Group Study in 2015, it was found that 29% of traditional projects failed outright and were cancelled, but that number decreased to 9% for Agile projects. They came up with the Agile Manifesto to streamline the development process.

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

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hours, Published February 2nd, 2011 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform). This book describes why students, parents, business leaders, major corporations, and world governments all see immediate results with Personal Kanban. Principle of Product Development Flow. Personal Kanban: Mapping Work – Navigating Life.

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Software Estimating Resources

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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. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

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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 Case Study in Root Cause Defect Analysis,” Marek Leszak, Dewayne E.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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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. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Laplante, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes , Vol.

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Risk Management Resources

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“A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 5, September/October 2011. 3, March 2002. 3, March 2002. 255, April 2010.