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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. Organisations that are unable to reliably realise the planned benefits from their investments will either be lucky, or more likely eventually fail. Front-End Planning Starts with the Business Case.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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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. Turns out in the real world there is no such project. Our knowledge of this world - the planned and actual behaviors of the project.

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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N., Browning, Project Management Journal , 50 , pp.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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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. requires making estimates) ? Estimation of Long?Term 3, March 2002.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Planning and Scheduling (#PS). Agile Project Management (#APM). Integrated Master Plan and Master Schedule (#IMPIMS). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM).

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Software Estimating Resources

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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?Markovian

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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When we hear about software development disasters and then hear that estimates are to blame, and NOT Estimating will somehow reduce or prevent these disasters, think again. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. The management of risk means good project management.