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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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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. 14, Special Issue, July 2012.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Five Principles of Project Success , PMI, Northern Utah Chapter, Professional Development Day, 2012. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline , PMI, Northen Utah Chapter, Professional Development Day, 2012.

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Managing Project Delays in the COVID-19 Age

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Richard Reynolds, senior engineer at consultancy firm E&M West, has over 30 years of experience in the construction industry, including leading the multi-disciplinary design team for the Media Center at the London 2012 Olympics. He says, “If it’s a short delay, you’ll likely have the same people on the project team when it resumes.

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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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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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“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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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

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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 ? Schedule Estimation and Uncertainty Surrounding the Cone of Uncertainty," Todd Little, IEEE Software , May/June 2006. 37–48, 2007.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Product Development (#ProdDev). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Six Business System Rule - defines the assessment of the integrated business systems for Federal procurement and their integrity in providing information to the Government contracting office. . Strategy (#Strategy).