Sat.Mar 03, 2018

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What Is Value at Risk And Why You Should Use It?

TimeCamp

Effective Risk Management Using the tools created by the language of mathematics is an enormous.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we must do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries. ? Samuel Johnson, 1709 ? 1784. So when you hear some conjecture that doesn't make sense in the understanding you have acquired from education and experience, ask those making that conjecture to provide the referen

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Book of the Month

Herding Cats

On B t is a classic tale of how our culture is full of bull s**t at every turn. Our project management, software development world the more so. . How people make stuff up , misuse concepts, misquote out of context, and other outcomes of our modern age of the internet. . The classic that happened yesterday was yet another misuse of the Standish Report, long debunked, to claim estimates p[rovide no value, in fact, estimates are the source of the reason why projects fail.