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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. Scale Project Management Is Risk Management, “Robert N.

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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. Pesotskaya, 7 th Central and Eastern European Software Engineering Conference, 2011. “A YOU CANNOT MAKE A DECISION IN THE PRESENCE OF UNCERTAINTY (reducible or irreducible) WITHOUT MAKING ESTIMATES.

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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 117, July 1998.

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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.

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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. The Use of Simulation Techniques for Hybrid Software Cost Estimation and Risk Analysis,” Michael Kläs, Adam Trendowicz, Axel Wickenkamp, Jürgen Münch, Nahomi Kikuchi, and Yasushi Ishigai, Advances in Computers, Volume 74, Elsevier, 2008. 9, January 2011. 106–118, 2014.

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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. . An Analysis of XP, TDD, Pair Programming, and Scrum (Using Real Options),” Dr. David Rico, [link] davidfrico.com/rico08b.pdf. 5 Oct 1990, Page 21.