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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Management of Novel Projects Under Conditions of High Uncertainty,” A.

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A Wrap Up of the #NoEstimating Conjecture Analysis to Date

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I've had a conversation of sorts with one of the "leaders" of the #NoEstimates movement who talked in circles when asked where is this method applicable outside your examples of a 5 week project and a cleanup of bugs on another project? . Software Estimating Taxonomy. How to get a "D" in the Freshman Finance Class.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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This is an example of someone making a claim with little or no understanding of how business works, how those paying for value manage their money in the presence of uncertainty. Yes, you have to pay for them, but that cost is cheap compared to a naive and novice approach based on experimenting with other people's money.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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Yes, you have to pay for them, but that cost is cheap compared to a naive and novice approach based on experimenting with other people's money. In all engineering worlds, from software engineering to bending metal for money, there is really nothing new under the sun. This solution is called Software Engineering.