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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

Scrum.org

The local communities and events also grow in size every year. Adoption of different methods and practices in Japan ( "DX White-Paper Executive Summary" Information-Technology Promotion Agency p11 ) Japanese culture Japanese businesses have a strong desire to avoid risk and minimize unexpected events.

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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

Inloox

When unexpected events occur, it is natural to feel stressed. As a result, everyone develops an individual level of risk tolerance, which a good project manager must also consider within their team. The very process of identifying a risk eliminates its most damaging characteristic: surprise.

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How to List Projects on Your Resume: A No Stress Guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you are a software engineer, show me your software projects. What types of projects should you include on your application for a new role? In my experience as a hiring manager, I want to see the relevant experience that applies to the job. Keep it short. Be concise. Should I include academic projects on my resume?

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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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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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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is a probability of an event. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. A final Thought . Kirchler, D. Andersson, C.