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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
208 pages
4h 26m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Part III: How

• How do we go about risk management?

• Since unknowns are unknown, how can we possibly quantify them?

• What tools are available to help?

• Where does risk management data come from?

• What are risk reserves, and how are they used?

• What can we do about a risk, beyond just tracking it?

• What are the recurrent risks of software projects, and what do we know about them?

• How do we discover risks in the first place?

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