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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. Management of Novel Projects Under Conditions of High Uncertainty,” A. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006.

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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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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

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MARCH 11, 2018

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.

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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. How to Estimate Software Development - Update.

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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. Yes, you have to pay for them, but that cost is cheap compared to a naive and novice approach based on experimenting with other people's money. Almost impossible?

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

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FEBRUARY 9, 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. And money in the bank is what software development is about. Traditional software development processes are like watchmaking.

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