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Scheduling and Cost Control in a Complex Environment

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

And of course, for our projects and our organisations, we don’t have Governments to bail us out. Benefits are much harder to estimate but it can still be done, and experienced companies are able to map projected benefits, albeit within wider ranges than for project costs, whilst avoiding the natural tendency to over-estimate those benefits.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. 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. reducible and irreducible ? 255, April 2010.

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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. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Product Development (#ProdDev). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Project Governance - project management is a well-defined concept found in many guidebooks and Bodies of Knowledge.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. 26% say effective team communication. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Feature Development Driven – 9%. Dynamic Systems Development Method – 3%. Government – Federal. Government – City/State/Local. 19% — Delivered on time.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. We use Vitech's Core.