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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister.

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What is Visual Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Today I’m interviewing Mark Woeppel, author of Visual Project Management. But what is visual project management? Mark, what is visual project management? Why do you think projects are still late and over budget when professional project management techniques have been around for years? Let’s talk about the unexpected.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art , Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press, 2015.

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Five Critical Aspects of A 21st-Century Digital Enterprise

The IIL Blog

Cybersecurity is not the problem that needs to be fixed; it’s the digital enterprise’s capability to manage its digital business risk, with cybersecurity only playing a small part. Digital Value Management System Let’s start with a new mental model focusing on creating and protecting digital business value. Well, everything.

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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. reducible and irreducible

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What is Project Management

MPUG

Project Management is a systematic and organized approach to planning, coordinating, and overseeing the work of a team to achieve a specific goal. Key to understanding Project Management, is to understand what a project is. Likewise, the project manager can set milestones, dates by which important aspects of the project need to be met.

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Projecting Project Success

MPUG

Although technology and software development tools are essential for most projects, it’s the leadership of a project that makes the difference between a project’s success or failure. Regardless of whether an organization has a formal program for mentoring or not, the process of skill development needs to be established and pursued.