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What’s in your backlog?

Leading Answers

Working as a developer at Data Sciences Ltd in the UK I wrote a program to manage our work tasks on a government project. My project manager saw it one day and two interesting things happened. He did not chastise me for working on a side project of developing a visual work tracker rather than working on the client project.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Using the Agile Methodology to Mitigate the Risks of Highly Adaptive Projects,” Dana Roberson and Mary Anne Herndon, 10 th Annual CMMI Technology Conference And User Group , November 5 – 8, 2012, Denver, CO.

2003 46
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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Governance (#Governance). 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. . Product Development (#ProdDev).

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

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. 14, Special Issue, July 2012. and Dutta, P., Alleman, G. Coonce, T.

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Londoners, dig deep in your pockets for yet another troubled project

Ron Rosenhead

Costs have gone up attributable problems with the retractable seating (installing and operating) no helped by the contractor going out of business. additional costs for the seating problem. extra running costs – see Taxpayers to meet Olympic Stadium running costs.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Information Technology and Computer Science , 2012, 8, 43–50. 3, August 2012. Modern Project Management: A New Forecasting Model to Ensure Project Success,” Iman Attarzadeh and Ow Siew Hock, International Conference on Future Computer and Communication, 2009. “An 30–41, 2012. 3, May/June 2012.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

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. 4, December 2012, pp. Sjoberg, Daniela Cruzes, Proceedings of the 2012 ACM?IEEE