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What is Project Management

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Agile is used in a wide range of industries, including software development, IT, construction, engineering, and many others Hybrid Hybrid combines elements of traditional and agile pm to create a customized approach that meets the specific needs of the project. 2015, February). Project management. TechTarget.

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Risk Management Resources

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Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister. “A México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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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. They are uncertainties that we can't do anything about.

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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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Estimates, Forecasts, Projections

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We can estimate the total cost, total duration, and the probability that all the Features will be delivered on the program we are working for the US Government. Or ANY software project for that matter. The estimated completion cost for this program is $357,000,000 with an accuracy of $200,000 and a precision of $300,000.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." Boehm, Barry W.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Agile Software Development (#ASD). Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).