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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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Kanban history has informed everything from manufacturing to software development. The kanban tool has become commonplace in project management and its uses continue to expand. While kanban systems were once analog, they have since moved into the digital space and are often found in project management software.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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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. Our perception of this world - the data and information we receive about these behaviors.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Two Parallel Processes of Project Success - Both Value and Delivery are Needed

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For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis.

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Project Budget Example: How to Create an Accurate Project Budget for Junior Project Managers

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So, here’s what you need to know: Step 1: Create Project Charter. So ideally you start with the Project Charter. Based on the information in the charter, you develop project requirements. You identify only the requirements that support reaching project objectives. Do you need a senior Android software engineer?

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.