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MAY 10, 2019

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. De Meyer, C.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

Judgment from experience requires repeatability (experts work best in Complicated or Ordered cynefin domains) The moment you have little-to-no repeatability experts are at best useless, adaptability is a better survival strategy. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments. For software development starts with.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At the other end of the spectrum, when systems are not well defined and each is individually reacting to technology and mission changes, the environment for any given system becomes essentially unpredictable. 1] "Systems Engineering Strategies for Uncertainty and Complexity," MITRE Corporation, Systems Engineering Guide. [2]

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