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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business. So why is so much of software opaque to the business? All technical debt is risk to the product and to your business. There is no asset securing that risk, no insurance for it. Technical debt is 100% risk. Technical debt is like an unhedged fund!

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Risk Management Resources

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Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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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. reducible and irreducible ?

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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The Agile Cannon

Herding Cats

Loss of control creates risk of failure. Compensate for cost variation by including risk reduction metrics. Establish a Zero backlog approach to planning - Scrum creates Sprint Backlog. Highly effective Scrum teams have seven items in Sprint Backlog. Embrace objectivity. Proactively Experiment to Improve. Forces on WIP .

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Scrum Infinity Stones

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We all know that Scrum is a framework, but for instance, imagine Scrum to be a gauntlet that holds all the six infinity gems. If so -what could be its infinity stones that could fit the scrum gauntlet which makes scrum so powerful and inevitable? Let’s explore together powers of the Scrum Infinity Stones!

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

Herding Cats

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk.