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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Applying Deliverables Based Planning ® To Increase Our Probability of Success , PMI Fort Worth, Chapter Meeting, 15 July 2010. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008.

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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

Digite

262 pages, ET to read: 4 hours, Published April 7th, 2010 by Blue Hole Press). This is the original book where David Anderson first laid down the definition of and guidance to the Kanban Method for software and knowledge work. David Anderson, who is widely regarded as the Kanban Method pioneer published this book in 2010.

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A Better Microsoft Project: Workload Levelling and Resource-Critical Path

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Examples are software development, new product development, pharmaceutical clinical studies, telecommunication, research and development, education, and government projects. Any project that needs a lot of capital or one that must hustle for finances (government!) is resource-constrained.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L. 12, 2008. “A

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

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The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? Steve McConnell. Quantifying IT Forecast Quality,” J. Eveleens and C. GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide," GAO-09-3SP.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Product Development (#ProdDev). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Six Business System Rule - defines the assessment of the integrated business systems for Federal procurement and their integrity in providing information to the Government contracting office. . Strategy (#Strategy).