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Risk Management Resources

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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. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. De Meyer, C.

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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. De Meyer, C.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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Turns out in the real world there is no such project. Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. Our knowledge of this world - the planned and actual behaviors of the project. One starting point is the value at risk.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM).

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A Wrap Up of the #NoEstimating Conjecture Analysis to Date

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It has many good concepts, one serious math error, and connects well with how we manage and work billion dollar programs. If you're looking for motivation for estimates outside of the domain where the customer doesn't really care about the final cost, just the final product developed inside a "level of effort" budget, look here and remember.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. For any Agile development tools (Rally, JIRA, Team Foundation Server) have embedded tools for making these charts. What is the Value at Risk for your Project?

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. For software development starts with. And then some more resources for managing in the presence of complexity . Complexity Primer (Sandia).