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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The beginning of all business critical software development projects is the point in time when performing organizations are least certain about the project, yet it is also the time when top management expects to be delivered project estimates that are very precise. 1, January 2011. "A 1, January 2011. "A 37–48, 2007.

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Top Solutions to Project Failure – Epicflow Research Part 2

Epicflow Blog

Andrew Middleton , the Managing Director at AMWireless, tells us how to make sure you aren’t fighting a losing battle by trying to manage the unmanageable: “All project stakeholders have got to be on board right from the start and it’s up to the PM to make sure it stays that way! Perform Risk Management.

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Defensive Programming Grows Up

Leading Agile

Here are some things for managers, programmers, and testers to keep in mind. The most fundamental way to ensure high quality when developing new code or modifying existing code is to learn and use generally-accepted good software design principles. This may be a consequence of rushing the work. Prevention – Programmers.

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Real Options and Decision Making for ICT Projects

Herding Cats

Traditional methods of quantitative cost-benefit analysis, like Net Present Value (NPV) or Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), either ignore or cannot properly capture the needs of management for flexibility to adapt and revise later decisions based on the uncertainties found on all IT projects. IT Risk Management. Here's a sample.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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. 3, March 2002. De Meyer, C.