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Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects
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Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister
July 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 26m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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19. Value Is Uncertain, Too

Stakeholders often excuse themselves from predicting new-system value because they reason that it’s too uncertain to predict. The truest answer they can think of when queried about expected value is, “I don’t know.” Stakeholders need to have the same knee-jerk reaction we urged upon you in Chapter 11: When they hear themselves saying “I don’t know,” they need to switch gears into uncertainty-bounding mode and begin drawing uncertainty diagrams.

Benefit? Well, That Depends . . .

For systems whose major effect is market enhancement rather than cost displacement, there are some real unknowns about likely benefit. The market may leap all over a new product, or it may respond with a ho hum. The competition may steal a ...

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ISBN: 9780133492248