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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

Inloox

A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. In this article, we present 8 project management guidelines that help you deal with failures. self-help author who focuses on personal time management. Anticipatory planning is required to manage the inevitable setbacks according to Murphy’s law.

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

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

Herding Cats

“A Taxonomy of an IT Project Failure: Root Causes,” Walid Al-Ahmad, Et Al, International Management Review, Vol. Automated Root Cause Isolation of Performance Regressions during Software Development,” Christopher Heger, Jens Happer, and Roozbeh Farahbod, ICPE ’13, April 21?24, What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects?

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

The reason for this resource page is the lack of understanding of how to estimate, the urban myths about software estimating, and the fallacies that estimating is not needed, when developing software, in the presence of uncertainty, when spending other peoples money. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. 8, August 1995.

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Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Let's say you're the project or program manager of a large complex system. We cannot escape these two uncertainties - reducible and irreducible - and must learn how to manage in the presence of these uncertainties. Maybe an aircraft, or a building, or an ERP system deployment. Abstracted from [3].

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