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APRIL 14, 2018

For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis. Software development is Micro, not Macro.

Process 45

Process Estimate Software Developers Software Development 45

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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. 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.

Risk Management 38

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

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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. Management of Novel Projects Under Conditions of High Uncertainty,” A.

Risk Management 35

Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

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FEBRUARY 9, 2019

You can spend money to buy done risk and that buy down outcome reduces that variances in the cost and schedule and increases the probability of projects success for that cost and schedule. . This is a closed loop system optimization process applied to all the projects we work. Is this normal?

Estimate 42

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42