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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. Risk Management Papers. “A

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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. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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Monte Carlo Risk Analysis in Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

By: Dr. Michael Shick, MSPM, PMP, CSM Are you a project manager struggling to predict the risks in your projects accurately during planning? Do you find yourself overcome by the inherent uncertainty of project variables like cost or schedule and worried about how they might impact your project's success?

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Suggested Fix Can Be Effective

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Here’s the process used in our domain [link] Buy the Reality Charting tool, buy Apollo Root Cause Analysis: Effective Solutions to Everyday Problems Every Time download Seven Steps to Effective Problem-Solving And Strategies for Personal Success Then this approach may be useful in your domain as well. IT Risk Management.

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

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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Define the risks - reducible and irreducible - to each Capability and their Features. For each risk define the probability of occurrence, the probability of impact, the probabilities of duration or cost impacts from that impact, the probability of success for the corrective or preventive actions, and the probability of any residual risk.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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Judgment from experience requires repeatability (experts work best in Complicated or Ordered cynefin domains) The moment you have little-to-no repeatability experts are at best useless, adaptability is a better survival strategy. They don't care about cost, risk, schedule, the probability that they'll get what they paid you for.