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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

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By Alan Zucker We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Until we validate them, they are risks.

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5 Notorious Failed Projects & What We Can Learn from Them

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Surprisingly, Sony continued to produce Betamax all the way into 2016. But soon the market had options that were cheaper and better than Betamax, making it a failed project. When you’re dealing with highly complex and dangerous projects like NASA, there’s always tremendous risk that needs to be tracked. The Lesson.

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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. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. Risk Management Papers. “A

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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. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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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). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Table of Contents (Click the Name to go to Section).

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Software Estimating Resources

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Why Monte Carlo Simulations of Project Network can Mislead,” Terry Williams, Project Management Journal 35(3), pp. Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc. Minku and Xin Yao, Automated Software Engineering, 28 December 2016. “SW Effort, Duration and Cost Estimation in Agile Software Development,” Mohd.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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“Fixed price without fixed specification,” Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory, 15 March 2016. Springer International Publishing, 2016. The Influence of Selection Bias on Effort Overruns in Software Development Projects,” Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory & Institute of Informatics , University of Oslo.