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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. All project work has uncertainty. Uncertainty comes from the lack of precision and accuracy about the possible values of a measurement of a project attribute.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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

Herding Cats

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

Herding Cats

- There is an immutable set of questions that need answers before we can determine the probability of success for our project. Predicting the Future - With the #NoEstimates topic still ringing in my ears, here's an interesting presentation from one of the supporters of this concept. What's Gonna Cost and When Will We Be Done?

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21 Types Of Project Management Software (With Examples)

Teamweek

Whether you’re a small team of freelancers or a large agency, your company needs a project management tool that fits your processes like a glove. Before choosing a specific tool though, you need to decide on the type of project management software you need. Project and resource planning software.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Using Project Planning Software

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Here’s where project planning comes in. The project management practice depicts a step-by-step process that helps you establish everything you need to do on a project. Knowing what to do, how a task should be completed, and when your deadline is up can be essential for any project’s evolution.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." .