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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

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. Project Driven Organization Framework.

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2017 Project Management Trends To Watch

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Even the smallest firm (including my own company with all of two part-time employees) can use project management software. Our software tools are full of data from the risks we log to the estimates we fail to achieve. How long can we cruise on the coattails of project successes like London 2012? Blended Methodology.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

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 ? This variation can be explained by the fact that initial concepts do not describe the final software system accurate enough.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty.

2003 46
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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. Dorofee, et.

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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. requires making estimates) ? reducible and irreducible ?

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Concept of Operations

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Can All This Formality Have Any Use in Modern Software Development? Systems Engineering for Software Intensive Projects Using Agile Methods, Larri Rosser, Phyllis Marbach, Gundars Osvalds, and David Lempia, Systems Engineering Conference, Washington DC (SEDC), 2014. . . McComb, Deanna M. Related articles. IT Risk Management.

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