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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Pesotskaya, 7 th Central and Eastern European Software Engineering Conference, 2011. “A NASA Risk Management Handbook,” NASA/SP-2011-3422, Version 1.0, November 2011. Eggstaff, Thomas A.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. Editors, Springer, 2011. July 20, 2011. Hillson, D. Hulett, D.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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PMI EVM Community of Practice, EVM World , May 16-18 2011. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline - The PMB is the time-phased schedule for all the work to be performed, the budgeted cost for this work, and the organizational elements that produce the deliverables for this work, AACE Workshop , April 16, 2011.

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9 ERP Systems to Consider For Professional Service Firms

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88 reviews) Best for : Agencies looking to unify their operations, project management, and financial tracking in one platform Overview Productive is an all-in-one agency management system thats designed to replace multiple tools with a unified platform. Accelo Founded in : 2011 Average customer ratings: G2 : 4.4 (516

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Software Cost Accounting

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A key reason for expensing, identified by both Luigi Paraboschi (VP of Finance at HP in Geneva) and Eugene Nisker (CEO of Evident Point Software in Vancouver), is to account for the cost sooner and therefore minimize the tax burden in the short term.

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Asana vs. Wrike: Compare Asana Alternatives

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Asana was launched in 2011 by co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein. Their goal was to create a sleek project management tool to enable teams around the world to work together effortlessly. . You can set project cost baselines and monitor the progress and expenses as teams execute. What is Asana?

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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“The Impact of Irrelevant and Misleading Information on Software Development Effort Estimates: A Randomized Controlled Field Experiment,” Magne Jørgensen and Stein Grimstad, IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering , Volume 37, Issue 5, September ‒ October 2011. Object-Oriented Software Cost Estimation Methodologies Compared,” D.