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Waltzing with Bears
Managing Risk on Software Projects

by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

ISBN: 0-932633-60-9  
©2003  208 pages   softcover  
$27.95 (plus shipping)

Subject(s): Software Project Management, Team Management

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Prologue: The Ethics of Belief

PART I: WHY 7

  1. Running Toward Risk
  2. Risk Management Is Project Management for Adults
  3. Denver International Airport Reconsidered
  4. The Case for Risk Management

PART II: WHY NOT

  5. The Case Against Risk Management
  6. The Onus of Uncertainty
  7. Luck

PART III: HOW

  8. Quantifying Uncertainty
  9. Mechanics of Risk Management
10. Risk Management Prescription
11. Back to Basics
12. Tools and Procedures
13. Core Risks of Software Projects
14. A Defined Process for Risk Discovery
15. Risk Management Dynamics
16. Incrementalism for Risk Mitigation
17. The Ultimate Risk Mitigation Strategy

138 PART IV: HOW MUCH

18. Value Quantification
19. Value Is Uncertain, Too
20. Sensitivity Analysis
21. Value Offsets Risk
22. Refining the Risk Management Prescription

PART V: WHETHER OR NOT

23. Test for Risk Management

Appendix A: The Ethics of Belief, Part 1

Appendix B: Risk Template

References

Index

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Excerpt: "Running Toward Risk"
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