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Review of Product Development Books

Leading Answers

This is where product development books can help. As I was working with clients experiencing the transition from projects to products I was lucky to engage with several authors of product-first, #NoProjects books and chat about the challenge areas and potential solutions. Allan Kelly, Software Strategy Ltd.; October 2018.

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

Inloox

" Probably the most famous of all management laws is attributed to American military pilot and aerospace engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. Entire books have been devoted to explaining this law. The very process of identifying a risk eliminates its most damaging characteristic: surprise.

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

Herding Cats

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk.

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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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6 Tips for Leaders as a Coach

Scrum.org

Provide them space where they can be at ease to take risks and create a rewarding ambience. He has helped many organizations adopt agile software delivery practices, including large banking, payments, telecom, and product organizations. He started his career as a Software Engineer and spent almost 8 years as a hard-core Programmer.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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What is IT Service Management?

The IIL Blog

ITSM is strategising, designing, and operating IT services for your colleagues and customers; it’s about handling the risk for your customers, managing the design of IT services, and co-creating value to enable desired customer outcomes. ITIL v2 followed this in 2001, ITIL v3 in 2007, and ITIL 4 in 2019.

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