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What’s in your backlog?

Leading Answers

Risk avoidance and risk reduction activities – Sure, maybe. Here’s a typical backlog showing a combination of features, change requests, bug fixes and a couple of risk reduction activities.   Risks in the Backlog. I have been keen on proactively addressing risks for many years. How do these sound?

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. If we do not have a sufficient buffer to protect the plan from these naturally occurring variances, our project will be impacted in unfavorable ways. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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Asana vs. Wrike: Compare Asana Alternatives

Wrike

We’ll introduce both tools, share their best features and advantages, and make a side-by-side comparison to help you choose the best project management solution for your business. Wrike was launched in 2006 by founder and software developer Andrew Filev. What is Wrike?

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Best agency project management software: 10 tools to short-list today – Part 5

Resource Guru

Far too many agencies are still using spreadsheets to manage high-stakes projects. Between tabs, color codes, and comments, the time spent on admin is valuable time that could be spent (actually) enabling project success. Plus, the risk of human error is just far too great.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

“The Influence of Selection Bias on Effort Overruns in Software Development Projects,” Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory & Institute of Informatics , University of Oslo. Planning and Executing Time-Bound Projects,” Eduardo Miranda, IEEE Computer , March 2002, pp. 449-462, July 2004. 1, January 2007. Chemuturi, J.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. Now To Risk Management. Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives. ISO 31000:2009, ISO 17666:2016, and ISO 11231:2010 Risk is Uncertainty that Matters.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Why Monte Carlo Simulations of Project Network can Mislead,” Terry Williams, Project Management Journal 35(3), pp. 123, 2006. “A Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian