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MAY 10, 2019

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. Use of Benefits of Tools for Project Risk Management,” T. Causes of Risk Taking by Project Managers,” Michel N.

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MAY 11, 2019

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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MARCH 11, 2018

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Laitonen, J.

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APRIL 16, 2019

Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Journal Papers, White Papers, and Essays on Project Success (#Papers). Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT). Balanced Scorecard (#BSC).

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JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. For software development starts with. Using Function Points in Agile Projects.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Does that make sense to anyone who has worked in software development?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

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. Is There Such a Thing As Making Decisions Without Knowing the Cost?

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