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How to Create a Project Assumptions List: Examples and Template Included

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Budget – estimated cost of the project. Finances – funding to complete the project. Schedule: tasks, durations, and dependencies needed to complete the project. Methodology – the approach you’ll take to completing the project. Examples of Project Assumptions. Budget – estimated cost of the project.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. Turns out in the real world there is no such project. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Accuracy - how close is the estimate to the actual value?

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Risk Management Resources

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Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? Use of Benefits of Tools for Project Risk Management,” T. 255, April 2010.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Agile Software Development (#ASD). Journal Papers, White Papers, and Essays on Project Success (#Papers). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams. The Project Management Paradigm , Carnegie Mellon University , Silicon Valley. Balanced Scorecard (#BSC).

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. For software development starts with. maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help. Almost impossible?

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. Is this normal?