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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Integrated Master Plan: The Foundation of Program Success , College of Performance Management, May 21, 2014. Five Immutable Principles of Project Success , PMI Spring Seminar, 2021, Austin TX. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016.

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Risk Management Resources

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“A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. 1, March 2014. Dorofee, et.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

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In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. I came to AHP through a seminar by Dr. James T. This decision model for software development projects addressed: performance, cost, time, and risk. Mathematically, the value equals performance over cost plus time. References . [1] Stevens, Science , Vol.

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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. Now To Risk Management.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Agile Software Development (#ASD). But each method needs to be based on 5 Immutable principles to be successful, no matter the domain or context, PMI Spring Seminar , 2012, Austin TX. Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams. Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. And money in the bank is what software development is about. Traditional software development processes are like watchmaking. 6, No 5, October 2014. [3]