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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. risks that affect the cost and schedule measures of the program.

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Overview of the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition – Lesson 3 Transcription

MPUG

But delivering as quickly as [inaudible 00:17:09], get it done right now, minimizing project costs, cheap, right? What’s interesting here, when we look into work performance, this is really about communications, engagement, managing physical resources. And what are those dots? Optimizing the value delivered.

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