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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

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The Aerospace Industry. The aerospace industry has quality assurance, but calls it product assurance, which works in tandem with project management and engineering to avoid catastrophic failures that have a human cost. The Software Industry.

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

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" Probably the most famous of all management laws is attributed to American military pilot and aerospace engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. " Larry Constantine is a software engineer and designer who pioneered the Structured Design approach to software development.

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

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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. What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects? All for the want of a nail.

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Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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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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Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

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Let me take another crack of describing how the CoU came about, how it's used in our Aerospace, Defense, and Enterprise IT domain and how not having a plan to reduced the uncertainty of the TPMs or any other measure of program performance is one of the top four root causes of project performance shortfall. The COCOMO 2.0

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. In all engineering worlds, from software engineering to bending metal for money, there is really nothing new under the sun. For software development starts with.