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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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Managerial Finance - the branch of finance that concerns itself with the managerial significance of finance techniques. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. 5] "Decisions in software development projects management.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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Managerial Finance - the branch of finance that concerns itself with the managerial significance of finance techniques. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. 5] "Decisions in software development projects management.

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Risk Management Resources

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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Why Johnny Can't Estimate? (Update)

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To be informed how to estimate in this broad range of domains, problems, and impacts — education, experience, and skill are needed. Mine is in hard science and systems engineering. Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. Let's start with the core issue on all software development projects.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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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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How to Estimate Any Software Problem

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Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. How will we recognize it when we encounter it? Any expectations of how to measure if what we found is what we're actually looking for? This is a simple book that will show how to estimate most everything.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

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This all about me approach to spending other people's money creates barriers to addressing the Root Cause of project difficulties and most importantly inhibits open - free and frank - discussion of how to Increase the Probability of Project Success. Root Cause: Productivity is the efficacy of the investment of time, talent, and money.