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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. A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N., 5, September/October 2011. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 24, 2010. “A

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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. 5, September/October 2011. 3, March 2002. 24, 2010. “A

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Software Cost Accounting

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A key reason for expensing, identified by both Luigi Paraboschi (VP of Finance at HP in Geneva) and Eugene Nisker (CEO of Evident Point Software in Vancouver), is to account for the cost sooner and therefore minimize the tax burden in the short term.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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PMI EVM Community of Practice, EVM World , May 16-18 2011. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline - The PMB is the time-phased schedule for all the work to be performed, the budgeted cost for this work, and the organizational elements that produce the deliverables for this work, AACE Workshop , April 16, 2011.

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Software Estimating Resources

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Nobel Approaches & Practical Applications, AIT 2011. Cost Data Modelling and Searching to Support Low Volume, High Complexity, Long Life Defence Systems Development,” W. Lanham, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Manufacture, 229 (5), pp. Newnes, A. Mileham, and J. 106–118, 2014.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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“The Impact of Irrelevant and Misleading Information on Software Development Effort Estimates: A Randomized Controlled Field Experiment,” Magne Jørgensen and Stein Grimstad, IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering , Volume 37, Issue 5, September ‒ October 2011. Object-Oriented Software Cost Estimation Methodologies Compared,” D.