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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

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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15 Powerful Benefits of Project Management

Project Bliss

Many organizations don’t fully understand the benefits of project management. This article was originally published on September 30, 2016, and has been updated. Can you easily explain the value you provide to an organization as a project manager? I was one of two project managers. And I choked.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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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5 Notorious Failed Projects & What We Can Learn from Them

ProjectManager.com

Sometimes a project reaches too far beyond its means and fails, which is unfortunate, but can also serve as a teaching moment. If project managers don’t learn from their mistakes, then they’re not growing professionally and will revisit the same problem in future projects. Managers are only as well-informed as their team.

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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 ? De Meyer, C.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

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. Now To Risk Management. Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives.

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Analogous and Parametric Estimating

MPUG

Microsoft Project, in its various releases (i.e., Online desktop, 2019, 2016, etc.), Unfortunately, the large majority of project managers estimate tasks with durations and update tasks by entering %-complete as reported by team members. Units” when assigned by the project manager are called “Assignment Units.”

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