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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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proponents "are people (that) tend to have experience/careers in industries and on projects where scope is fungible.". Software Estimating - Pawel commented on the previous post about the difficulties in making estimates of duration and cost of software. Software Estimating Taxonomy. Want to Forecast the Future?

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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.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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Another example of DSTOP, in this case Doing Things with NO understanding of Managerial Finance, Microeconomics of Software Development, or Probabilistic Decision Making. 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.