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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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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

Scrum.org

This interest from people around me encouraged me to do some research and thinking on the subject, which I have summarized in this article.( Living in Japan, I am partly amused, partly puzzled by the amount of warnings and rules I encounter everyday that are designed to reduce even the smallest risks.

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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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10 GDPR Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And it has huge implications for people managing projects that store, capture or process personal data. But beyond the setting up of GDPR principles in your business, what does GDPR look like for project management? In this article I’ll look at 10 questions managers should ask themselves before starting a new project.

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Creating a Positive Workplace: Strategies for Building Trust & Respect

Proofhub

If you’re an employer, manager, or another leadership figure for employees in your organization, it’s important to take active steps toward creating a culture of respect and appreciation. This article explores six strategies that help foster trust and respect among employees and result in a more positive workplace.

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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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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.”.