The IIL Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

This approach benefits organisations, promoting operational excellence and bringing about improved proactive risk management and service resilience. You may choose not to adopt certain aspects; those that you do adopt will continue to mature as you refine your internal processes and governance. In short, no.

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Defining Certification 2008 Prince2 167

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Project Governance. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008. Risk Management.

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ActiveCollab

MAY 25, 2022

Smart managers are always on the lookout, focusing on hidden risks that can sidetrack any project or business. Without a contingency plan, there is no risk management recovery plan. Government institutions, for instance, use it to prepare for an economic crisis, like those we experienced in 2008 or during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Planning 2008 2020 Government 68

Susanne Madsen

MAY 23, 2018

​A project is a unique undertaking that’s full of risk and uncertainty, because it has never been done before in that exact way. Just consider the most important techniques we use as project managers: we define scope, analyse requirements, plan and estimate work, add contingency, manage risks, track changes and check the quality.

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Construction 2002 2008 Engineering 87

The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

As governments and organisations began to utilise IT to run their organisations, the concepts of ‘services’ began to evolve. ITIL was partly in response to the UK government’s desire to standardise how we deliver IT services and became the de-facto approach to what became known as ITSM.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

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 Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Risk Management (#RM). Governance (#Governance). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Project Governance - project management is a well-defined concept found in many guidebooks and Bodies of Knowledge.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement 2003 Underperforming Technical Team 42

MPUG

MARCH 28, 2021

Best Practices : It’s better to send information to too many people than too few, suggests Ron Taylor, founder of the Ron Taylor Group and PMI’s 2008 Leader of the Year. The project sponsor prefers to meet in person to review status, issues, and risks. Include major accomplishments, issues, risks, and plans for the next period.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. Dealing with Aleatory (irreducible) uncertainty and the resulting risk requires we have margin. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value. One starting point is the value at risk.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

June Verner, Jennifer Sampson, and Narciso Cerpa, Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, 2008. “A Schedule Compliance Risk Assessment Methodology (SCRAM) Combined Process Reference Model and Process Assessment Model, Released Version 2.0, “What factors lead to software project failure?”

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2014 Aerospace 2011 2013 45

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. The CoU is a build-to paradigm, where measures of the program's performance cumulative to date is used to inform the risk for future performance.

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Performance Measurement 2017 Technical Review 2008 35

Velociteach

MARCH 20, 2023

And then as the recession came along, the great recession in 2008-2009, I essentially bought the business from the company I was working with and created Atlas Turf. There was what’s called the “supreme committee” for the government of Qatar that we coordinated with a certain amount. What was your biggest risk factor?

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Logistics Transportation 2022 Government 52

Epicflow Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

Understanding the success criteria makes it easier to recognize possible threats to the project flow and in such a way minimize risks. They involve the application of innovative technologies, which creates additional risks and challenges. They are vulnerable to risks, including cyberthreats. . They are mostly large and complex.

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Aerospace Technical Review 2008 Defining 52

Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty. Acquiring Data Retires Risk. One role of the project manager is to reduce or retire risk. This supposes a risk management system of course.

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2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 34

Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty. Acquiring Data Retires Risk. One role of the project manager is to reduce or retire risk. This supposes a risk management system of course.

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2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success. 325-330, 2013.

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Jez Lister

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Since then I have implemented numerous COTS Commercial off the Shelf packages in sectors such as central government, local government, law, housing and higher education. In 2008 I started putting together an outline COTS methodology. It was, to be perfectly frank, a real mess.

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Software Review Technical Review Finance Government 40

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. This is done by active risk management, through probabalistic decision-making.

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Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

PM That Works

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I wrote about it my book in 2008. They understand how they make decisions, what they're motivated by how they deal with change, risk and conflict and adversity, they really understand themselves. But if you could look to say, hey, there's no risk if I don't take it, the worst thing could happen is I learned a lesson from this.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Controlling Risk Management 40

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

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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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

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. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Sjøberg1, and Magne Jørgensen, IEEE Software , Volume 25, Issues 3, May-June, 2008. Estimates, Uncertainty, and Risk,” Barbara Kitchenham and Stephen Linkman, University of Keele, IEEE Software , May / June, 1997, “Software Project Scheduling under Uncertainties,” Intaver Institute Inc. “A Naval Postgraduate School, 2008.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc. What the Data Say About IT project Risk in the Public Sector,” Alexander Budzier and Bent Flyvbjerg, in Commonwealth Governance Handbook, 2012/2013: Democracy, development, and Public Administration, Commonwealth Secretariat, December 2012. 11, November 2008.

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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Planview

APRIL 12, 2018

Meeting the demands of ever-changing priorities within a government can lead to inconsistent processes, departments with limited visibility into what is being worked on, and no ability to monitor investments. The New Zealand Government Case Study. The New Zealand government serves approximately 4.7 million people.

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Government Governance 2008 Finance 96

The IIL Blog

JULY 3, 2024

While many companies have achieved and maintained high levels of project management success, other companies have limited the continuous investment needed in project management practices to make the success sustainable (Chandler & Thomas, 2015; Thomas & Mullaly, 2008). The customer could be internal or external to the organization.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2008 Technical Review Government 88