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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

It doesn’t matter whether you look at the available research on the progress of DX (⁶), case studies, the job market, the number of certification holders, public training or conferences; the evidence tells the same story. In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking.

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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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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

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10 GDPR Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There are lots of questions to answer, and at the end you get an idea of the scope and scale of the risk. The risks to individuals (your data subjects). The measures you can take to mitigate those risks. GDPR confers various rights on data subjects (i.e. What’s the GDPR Risk?

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

“Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc. 61, September 2004.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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