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What did the Project Managers ever do for us?

The Lazy Project Manager

And perhaps: ‘We figure it’s more profitable to have 50% overruns than to spend 15% on project management to prevent them.’. And I am sure you have come across the classic: ‘Project management is too expensive… on top of the all the rest of the project costs’. Pulse Report 2013.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. 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.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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. Project Risks and Opportunities Management,” Thomas Petravi?ius,

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. Project manager) Losoi, H., and Dutta, P., Alleman, G. Coonce, T.