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5 Steps to Finding the Path to Business Agility

International Institute for Learning

The Kaizen loop is one of several improvement processes we use to plan, do, study and act our way to continuous improvement. We can use many patterns that have been identified and verified as good practices across many industries, including construction, government, telecommunications, travel, finance software development, and so on.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

Herding Cats

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. Hooey, Safety Science, Volume 85, June 2016, Pages 241–257. Why All This Setup? .

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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. 2128, International Technical Paper , 2016. 5, September/October 2011.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Economics is the study of how people make decisions in resource-limited situations. Economics has two basis branches: Macroeconomics is the study of how people make decisions in resource-limited situations on a national or global scale. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project.