If a project manager is consumed with managing risk, there is little time to manage opportunities. Good risk management is not about fear of failure, it is about removing barriers to success. This is when opportunity management emerges.
Getting To Done - A Master Class WorkshopGlen Alleman
The Principles, Processes, Practices, and Tools to Increase the Probability of successfully completing Project's On-Tiem, On-Budget, and Needed Capabilities
IMP & WBS - Getting Both Right is ParamountGlen Alleman
WBS is the starting point for program success. It tells us what DONE looks like in terms of deliverables.
Integrated Master Plan (IMP) tells us how the increasing maturity of the deliverables will be assessed at each Program Event.
Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) tells us the order of the Work Packages needed to produce this increasing maturity.
Control Account Plan (CAP) defines the authorized scope, budget, and period of performance for the work that produces the deliverables defined in the WBS, assessed in the IMP, and sequenced in the IMS.
Establishing the performance measurement baseline (pmi northern utah)(v1)Glen Alleman
The Performance Measurement Baseline is a time phase, budgeted description of all the work on a project to produce the needed capabilities that fulfill the business case or accomplish the mission
Getting To Done - A Master Class WorkshopGlen Alleman
The Principles, Processes, Practices, and Tools to Increase the Probability of successfully completing Project's On-Tiem, On-Budget, and Needed Capabilities
IMP & WBS - Getting Both Right is ParamountGlen Alleman
WBS is the starting point for program success. It tells us what DONE looks like in terms of deliverables.
Integrated Master Plan (IMP) tells us how the increasing maturity of the deliverables will be assessed at each Program Event.
Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) tells us the order of the Work Packages needed to produce this increasing maturity.
Control Account Plan (CAP) defines the authorized scope, budget, and period of performance for the work that produces the deliverables defined in the WBS, assessed in the IMP, and sequenced in the IMS.
Establishing the performance measurement baseline (pmi northern utah)(v1)Glen Alleman
The Performance Measurement Baseline is a time phase, budgeted description of all the work on a project to produce the needed capabilities that fulfill the business case or accomplish the mission
What Makes a Good Concept of Operations?Glen Alleman
A Concept of Operations is a user-oriented document the describes system characteristics for a proposed systems from the User's perspective. The CONOPs also describes the user organization, mission, and objectives form the integrated systems point of view and is used to communicates overall qualitative and quantitative characteristics to the stakeholders.
Delivering programs with less capability than promised, while exceeding the cost and planned durations, distorts decision making, contributes to increasing cost growth to other programs, undermines the Federal government’s credibility with taxpayers and contributes to the public’s negative support for these programs.
Many reasons have been hypothesized and documented for cost and schedule growth. The authors review some of these reasons, and propose that government and contractors use the historical variability of the past programs to establish cost and schedule estimates at the outset and periodically update these estimates with up-to-date risks, to increase the probability of program success. For this to happen, the authors recommend changes to estimating, acquisition and contracting processes.
Capabilities‒Based Planning the capabilities needed to accomplish a mission or fulfill a business strategy
Only when capabilities are defined can we start with requirements elicitation
Increasing the Probability of Project Success with Five Principles and PracticesGlen Alleman
There are many approaches to managing projects in every domain.
This seminar lays the foundations for increasing the probability of project success, no matter the domain, what technology, what approach to delivering the outcomes of the project.
The principles of this approach are immutable.
The practices for implementing the principles are universally applicable.
Each chart in this presentation, contains guidance that can be applied to your project, no matter the domain.
In our short hour here, we’re going to cover a lot of material.
The bibliography contains the supporting materials we can tailor to your individual project
PGCS 2019 Master Class Integrating SE with PPMGlen Alleman
The projects are managed as if they were merely complicated ‒ when in fact, they were complex.They are planned as if everything is known or knowable at the start ‒ when in fact, they involve high levels of reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory) uncertainty and resulting risk.Combining Systems Engineering and Project Management is a critical success factor in reducing these uncertainties, resulting in increased probability of program success.
Building a Credible Performance Measurement BaselineGlen Alleman
Establishing a credible Performance Measurement Baseline, with a risk adjusted Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule, starts with the WBS and connects Technical Measures of progress to Earned Value
From WBS to Integrated Master ScheduleGlen Alleman
A step by step guide to increasing the Probability of Program success starting with the WBS, developing the Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule, risk adjusting the IMS, and measuring progress to plan in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers.
Keynote 2 - SE and PPM a Match Made in HeavenGlen Alleman
The way to success is …
First, have a definite, clear, practical idea ‒ a goal, an objective.
Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends ‒ wisdom, materials, and methods.
Third, adjust your means to that end.
‒ Aristotle
The management of risk is a critical success factor of any project or program. This document is a collection of risk management categories that are used to ask the question “did you think about this risk and its impact on our probability of success?”
Over the years the success rate of traditional project management methods applied to software development projects has been underwhelming. These traditional methods are based on a retrospective approach which measures variance against plan rather than providing a performance–forecast that can be used to guide projects in a chaotic environment.
Establishing schedule margin using monte carlo simulation Glen Alleman
The first order goal is to develop a resource loaded, risk tolerant, Integrated Master Schedule, derived from the Integrated Master Plan that clearly shows the increasing maturity of the program's deliverables, through vertical and horizontal traceability to the program's requirements.
With uncertainty comes opportunity. But if a project manager is consumed with managing the risks, there is little time to manage the opportunities. Good risk management is not about fear of failure; it is about removing barriers to success. This is when opportunity management emerges.
What Makes a Good Concept of Operations?Glen Alleman
A Concept of Operations is a user-oriented document the describes system characteristics for a proposed systems from the User's perspective. The CONOPs also describes the user organization, mission, and objectives form the integrated systems point of view and is used to communicates overall qualitative and quantitative characteristics to the stakeholders.
Delivering programs with less capability than promised, while exceeding the cost and planned durations, distorts decision making, contributes to increasing cost growth to other programs, undermines the Federal government’s credibility with taxpayers and contributes to the public’s negative support for these programs.
Many reasons have been hypothesized and documented for cost and schedule growth. The authors review some of these reasons, and propose that government and contractors use the historical variability of the past programs to establish cost and schedule estimates at the outset and periodically update these estimates with up-to-date risks, to increase the probability of program success. For this to happen, the authors recommend changes to estimating, acquisition and contracting processes.
Capabilities‒Based Planning the capabilities needed to accomplish a mission or fulfill a business strategy
Only when capabilities are defined can we start with requirements elicitation
Increasing the Probability of Project Success with Five Principles and PracticesGlen Alleman
There are many approaches to managing projects in every domain.
This seminar lays the foundations for increasing the probability of project success, no matter the domain, what technology, what approach to delivering the outcomes of the project.
The principles of this approach are immutable.
The practices for implementing the principles are universally applicable.
Each chart in this presentation, contains guidance that can be applied to your project, no matter the domain.
In our short hour here, we’re going to cover a lot of material.
The bibliography contains the supporting materials we can tailor to your individual project
PGCS 2019 Master Class Integrating SE with PPMGlen Alleman
The projects are managed as if they were merely complicated ‒ when in fact, they were complex.They are planned as if everything is known or knowable at the start ‒ when in fact, they involve high levels of reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory) uncertainty and resulting risk.Combining Systems Engineering and Project Management is a critical success factor in reducing these uncertainties, resulting in increased probability of program success.
Building a Credible Performance Measurement BaselineGlen Alleman
Establishing a credible Performance Measurement Baseline, with a risk adjusted Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule, starts with the WBS and connects Technical Measures of progress to Earned Value
From WBS to Integrated Master ScheduleGlen Alleman
A step by step guide to increasing the Probability of Program success starting with the WBS, developing the Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule, risk adjusting the IMS, and measuring progress to plan in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers.
Keynote 2 - SE and PPM a Match Made in HeavenGlen Alleman
The way to success is …
First, have a definite, clear, practical idea ‒ a goal, an objective.
Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends ‒ wisdom, materials, and methods.
Third, adjust your means to that end.
‒ Aristotle
The management of risk is a critical success factor of any project or program. This document is a collection of risk management categories that are used to ask the question “did you think about this risk and its impact on our probability of success?”
Over the years the success rate of traditional project management methods applied to software development projects has been underwhelming. These traditional methods are based on a retrospective approach which measures variance against plan rather than providing a performance–forecast that can be used to guide projects in a chaotic environment.
Establishing schedule margin using monte carlo simulation Glen Alleman
The first order goal is to develop a resource loaded, risk tolerant, Integrated Master Schedule, derived from the Integrated Master Plan that clearly shows the increasing maturity of the program's deliverables, through vertical and horizontal traceability to the program's requirements.
With uncertainty comes opportunity. But if a project manager is consumed with managing the risks, there is little time to manage the opportunities. Good risk management is not about fear of failure; it is about removing barriers to success. This is when opportunity management emerges.
As per PMBOK - "The whole point of undertaking a project is to achieve or establish something new, to venture, to take chances, to risk. Risk may have positive effects or negative effects on the project “Schedule” and/or “Cost”. Positive risks are Opportunities and negative risks are losses or threats; remember both risks are uncertain “percentage of occurrence less than 80%”. Risk Management purpose is to manage (Plan and implement) these uncertainties.
Webinar - Building Team Efficiency and EffectivenessInvensis Learning
Wouldn’t it be great if you could get to better ideas faster? If you learn to master just two thinking skills, you can! Many of the PMI supported tools have origins in creativity. As such, these tools are best leveraged when you apply divergent thinking (to generate) or convergent thinking (to narrow). This session will explore the principles of divergent and convergent thinking and provide examples of techniques to maximize their power in decision making, problem solving and performance feedback.
Episode 25 : Project Risk Management
Understand what risk is and the importance of good project risk management.
Discuss the elements involved in risk management planning and the contents of a risk management plan.
List common sources of risks in engineering and information technology projects.
Describe the risk identification process, tools, and techniques to help identify project risks, and the main output of risk identification, a risk register.
SAJJAD KHUDHUR ABBAS
Chemical Engineering , Al-Muthanna University, Iraq
Oil & Gas Safety and Health Professional – OSHACADEMY
Trainer of Trainers (TOT) - Canadian Center of Human
Development
Project risk management: Techniques and strategiesDebashishDas49
Risk identification techniques and mitigation techniques in the present dynamic scenario of the industry is described here. Also, the recent research area and probable topics that one could choose as a Ph.D. topic are described briefly.
Final Class Presentation on Determining Project Stakeholders & Risks.pptxGeorgeKabongah2
“A person or group of people who have a vested interest in the success of an organization or project and the environment in which the organization/ project operates”
Online PMP Training Material for PMP Exam - Risk Management Knowledge AreaGlobalSkillup
Risk Management Knowledge Area in Project management defined by PMBOK 5th Edition by Project Management Institute (PMI). Provided by GlobalSkillup.com towards PMP Certification Exam.
MBA 6941, Managing Project Teams 1 Course Learning Ou.docxaryan532920
MBA 6941, Managing Project Teams 1
Course Learning Outcomes for Unit VI
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
4. Explore the dynamics of project teams.
4.1 Describe the positive and negative risks of a project and how they can affect the project team.
4.2 Identify risk response plans based on the key processes of project risk management and how
team members can play a role in these plans.
Reading Assignment
Chapter 14:
Risk
Unit Lesson
Project risk is an uncertain event in the future, and if it occurs, it will have a positive or negative impact on one
or more project objectives, including scope, schedule, cost, and quality. Risk may have one or more causes
such as requirement, assumption, and constraints or conditions that create the possibility of negative or
positive outcomes.
It is normal even for the extremely organized and most carefully planned project to run into unexpected
troubles. Several factors such as inadequate resources, the project environment, the project management
processes, and other facets can contribute to project risks. We will be able to anticipate some risks in
advance and come up with response plans; other risk events will occur unannounced during the project.
Team members can get sick or quit unexpectedly, sudden weather change can drastically limit your options,
and even resources that you are depending on may become unavailable. The purpose of risk management is
to identify potential problems that could cause concern for your project, analyze how likely and at what
frequency they will occur, take preventive actions for the ones you can avoid, and minimize the impacts and
probability for the ones you cannot avoid. There are two generalized types of risk:
business risk (risk of loss/threat or gain/opportunity) and
pure risk (only a risk of loss/threat)—are sometimes also called insurable risks and can include
events like fire, theft, personal injury, and other elements.
Opportunity (Positive Risk): These are the risks with positive effects. It is a favorable situation in the
organizational environment. Some examples include the arrival of new technology or the removal of an
international trade barrier. In addition, the fulfillment of a previously unfulfilled customer need may have a
significant positive impact on your project.
Threats (Negative Risk): These are external elements in the environment that arise from political, economic,
social, and technological (PEST) forces and can cause trouble for the business. Some examples can include
new regulations, increased trade barriers, or the emergence of substitute products.
A few additional threats include the following:
anything external that might cause problems, damage, or injury;
technological developments that may make your offerings obsolete;
market changes that may result from changes in customer needs, competitor’s moves, or
demographic shifts; or
the ...
Building a risk tolerant integrated master scheduleGlen Alleman
Traditional approaches to planning, scheduling, and managing technical performance are not adequate to defend against these disruptions. This paper outlines the six steps for building a risk-tolerant schedule, using a field-proven approach.
UCISA Toolkit - Effective Risk Management for Business Change and IT Projects Mark Ritchie
Risk Management is one of the most important tools available to the Project Manager to help successfully deliver complex projects. Yet, at the same time, Risk Management can be difficult to understand and, if used without insight and expertise, costly and ineffective.
This guidance has been developed to assist staff who are managing or participating in IT and business change projects. It has been developed by the UCISA Project and Change Management Group and is based on best practice guidance provided by PRINCE2 and experience of delivering major IT and business change projects at the University of Sheffield, University of Edinburgh, Lancaster University and Edinburgh Napier University.
The guidance is relevant for projects being managed and delivered using any methodology and is complementary to the UCISA Major Project Governance Assessment Toolkit.
This toolkit was published by the UCISA Project and Change Management Group in December 2015.
· How should the risks be prioritized· Who should do the priori.docxalinainglis
· How should the risks be prioritized?
· Who should do the prioritization of the project risks?
· How should project risks be monitored and controlled?
· Who should develop risk responses and contingency plans?
· Who should own these responses and plans?
Introduction
This week, we will explore risk management. Risk management is one of those areas in project management that separates good project managers from great project managers. A good project manager makes risk management an integral part of every phase of project work. Risks are identified, prioritized, and understood. There are clear responsibilities within the team as to whose is responsible for implementing a risk response to reduce the impact should it occur. So let's get started.
What is Risk?
*Risk: An uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Risks can be positive, meaning beneficial to the project, or they can be negative, meaning detrimental to the project.
Many students have a difficult time visualizing positive risks. A positive risk is an opportunity that may increase the probability of success, the return on investment, or the benefits of the project. They may also be ways to reduce project costs or ways to complete the project early. There may even be methods to improve project quality or overall performance. These are all examples of positive risks.
A negative risk can be easier to understand. It is the possibility that something will go wrong, a threat to the success of the project. It is important to remember that a risk is a possibility, not a fact. It is a potential problem. At GettaByte Software, there is the potential that a power outage would occur during data transfer. The potential exists that a key resource could become unavailable due to some unforeseen circumstance, like illness. Those are threats to the success of the project.
When buying a house to renovate, there are potential risks with respect to plumbing, wiring, the foundation, and so on.
A project manager needs to consider trying to make positive risks happen while trying to prevent negative ones from occurring. To do this, a project manager can take a proactive approach to risk management. This means he or she plans a risk response should it look as though the risk will become a reality. In this way, everyone knows exactly how to prepare and respond to the risk once it does become an issue.
The Risk Management Process
A project has both good and bad risks, which are referred to as positive and negative risks or opportunities and threats. For positive risks or opportunities, the project manager can choose from a range of risk responses. For threats, a project manager has a similar range of choices. The following, as described in the PMBOK® Guide, are the risk management processes.
Plan Risk Management:
· Risk Strategy
· Defines the general approach to managing risk on the project
· Methodology
· Defines the specific, tools, .
Planning projects usually starts with tasks and milestones. The planner gathers this information from the participants – customers, engineers, subject matter experts. This information is usually arranged in the form of activities and milestones. PMBOK defines “project time management” in this manner. The activities are then sequenced according to the projects needs and mandatory dependencies.
Increasing the Probability of Project SuccessGlen Alleman
Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key cost, performance and schedule attributes are often uncertain or unknown until late in the program.
Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which may potentially impact the program, termed Known Unknowns, can be alleviated with good risk management. -- Effective Risk Management 2nd Edition, Page 1, Edmund Conrow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2003
Cost and schedule growth for complex projects is created when unrealistic technical performance expectations, unrealistic cost and schedule estimates, inadequate risk assessments, unanticipated technical issues, and poorly performed and ineffective risk management, contribute to project technical and programmatic shortfalls
From Principles to Strategies for Systems EngineeringGlen Alleman
From Principles to Strategies How to apply Principles, Practices, and Processes of Systems Engineering to solve complex technical, operational,
and organizational problems
Starting with the development of a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimate of work and duration, creating the Product Roadmap and Release Plan, the Product and Sprint Backlogs, executing and statusing the Sprint, and informing the Earned Value Management Systems, using Physical Percent Complete of progress to plan.
Program Management Office Lean Software Development and Six SigmaGlen Alleman
Successfully combining a PMO, Agile, and Lean / 6 starts with understanding what benefit each paradigm brings to the table. Architecting a solution for the enterprise requires assembling a “Systems” with processes, people, and principles – all sharing the goal of business improvement.
This resource document describes the Program Governance Road map for product development, deployment, and sustainment of products and services in compliance with CMS guidance, ITIL IT management, CMMI best practices, and other guidance to assure high quality software is deployed for sustained operational success in mission critical domains.
Seven Habits of a Highly Effective agile project managerGlen Alleman
Recent neurological studies indicate that the role of emotion in human cognition is essential; emotions are not a luxury. Instead, emotions play a critical role in rational decision–making, in perception, in human interaction, and in human intelligence. Habits are the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.
The 5 Immutable principles of project managementGlen Alleman
Software development methods are sometimes confused with Project Management principles. There are 5 irreducible principles used to manage projects, no matter the domain or context. We need to assure our development work is guided by these 5 Project Management principles.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
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We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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With Uncertainty Comes Opportunity.
If a project manager is consumed with managing risks, there is little time to manage opportunities. Good risk
management is not about fear of failure; it is about removing barriers to success. This is when opportunity
management emerges.
In the project management domain, the subject of risk management ranges from addressing the political risks of a
project’s outcome, to the risks of a supplier failing to deliver on time, to the technical failure of a product in the
marketplace,to the nearly endless possibilities thatcould disrupt the path to success and impact cost and schedule
along the way..
As well, risk management is applied in diverse dis ciplines. Statistics, economics, psychology, social sciences,
biology, engineering, toxicology, systems analysis, operations research, and decision theory, all have risk
management disciplines.
Although risk managementas defined in PMBOK® is useful, a better paradigm to manage both risk and opportunity
is “Managing in the Presence of Uncertainty.” Uncertainty is created when risks appear along the path to success.
With uncertainty comes opportunity.If the project manager is busy managing the risks, there is little time to manage
opportunities ignoring half the project management functions in the presence of uncertainty equation.
Before going further, let’s discuss some definitions and background. Project management, naturally, is success
oriented,focused on producing products and services for customers.Risk management is focused on failure modes
of the project and can be easily pushed aside by a success culture. It is critical that all project participants, not just
projectmanagers,understand thatrisk managementis a process to identify and mitigate the barriers to this success.
When the success orientation is combined with risk management, opportunity management emerges. Some useful
definitions for risk/opportunity management:
Risk – a potential problem or threat that could affect a project’s ability to meet its operational capability and
performance, technical, cost, schedule, financial, or other objectives.
Risk Management – the continuous, proactive process of identifying and assessing program, risk, defining
appropriate risk handling strategies and plans, and monitoring those actions to completion.
Opportunity Management – the identification of opportunities to help attain project goals, and the identification
and implementation of actions to capture those opportunities.
What is the Intention of Risk Management?
Actively managing risks increase the probability that a project or program will have a successful outcome. This
motherhood statementmakes itclear that risk managementis partof a successful projectmanagement is a strategy.
Risk management is not an event performed along the way; it is a continuous process.
There are many books,papers,articles,and professional associations describing how to manage risk. One phrase
used by a project a manager is risk buy down that is, the buying of information to reduce risk. The purchasing of this
information can be explicit: buy a report that compares three products being considered as an off-the-shelf solution
rather than analyze them as part of the project. Or, spend money building a prototype to test the structural integrity
before committing to manufacturing. Or, pay for a public survey of constituents before rerouting a bicycle path.
Risk Management Needs Hierarchy
Project risk and opportunity managementrequires more than the intentto manage risks,it requires cultural changes,
processes and their use, tools, and the consistent application of all of these. 1
A Risk Management Culture in which the success of the project is understood to be based on delivering the
planned results and managing risks that interfere with those plans.
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Effective risk processes from simple identify,assess, plan, control, and communicate to complex probabilistic risk
assessments.
Risk tools from simple list to complex software system integrated across the enterprise.
Consistent practices are in place when risk management becomes part of the everyday routine rather than an
additional task to burden the project.
Sound risk and opportunity management cannot save a poorly planned program with bad processes.
Prevent competition between risks and opportunities.
Prevent unhealthy competition between teams.
Risk and opportunity management provide diminishing returns if overused.
Costs of pursuing opportunities and managing risks must be weighed against the expected benefits.
An environment should be created to encourage risk and opportunity management.
Risks and opportunities are not just normal variations in plan.
Recognize the difference between risks and opportunities.
Opportunities are not "positive risks".
Once risk and opportunity have been identified as a critical factor in delivering projectsuccess the responses to each
need to be defined in terms useful for the project domain. These keys to success have been extracted from a recent
Space Risk Management Symposium [3]:
Risk Response Opportunity Response
Avoid: alter the approach to the problem and bypass
that path in the project network.
Capture: align the work activities with the current path
in the project network and incorporatethe opportunity
in the deliverables.
Transfer: assign therisk to team that can mitigate the
risk
Transfer: assign a teamthat can own the opportunity
and incorporateit into the deliverables.
Assume: the risk with no further action other than to
watch for a change.
Ignore: the opportunity with no further action other
than to watch for a change.
Mitigate: the risk by executing the tasks needed to
reduce its likelihood and any consequences from its
outcome.
Pursue: the opportunity by advancingthe likelihood
and consequences of it occurring.
Putting This to Work
Risk Managementmustbe an integral part of planning and execution.PMBOK®
[1] defines 6 processes for managing
risk. To make risk management explicit the tasks for managing risk must be:
Embedded in the schedule – flagged as risk tasks with predecessors, successors, durations, and priorities.
Assigned resources – risk manager and technical assessment staff, cost accounts, and WBS numbers,
performance targets, and exit criteria for each package of work and activities.
Budget – apportioned to the risk level, cost baseline, and actuals against the project baseline.
Tracked in the normal status review – risk manager reports risk reduction status as percentage complete or
0%/100% complete.
Defined outcomes – result of risk buy down and management tasks are made visible through accomplishment
criteria or some form of qualitative assessment.
Assessed for compliance –a risk buy down chart showing risk reduction as the project proceeds.
This makes risk management part of the normal project planning and control processes. Once in place, the risk
management plan is no longer a separate event represented solely in a document, but part of the project
management teams responsibility.
Bibliography
[1] Integrating Program Risk Management into the IPPD Environment, Robert Cvetko and Harry Jabagchourian, Third National
Symposium on Risk Management, November 28 – December 1, 2000, McLean, Virginia.
[2] Continuous Risk Management Guidebook, AudreyJ. Dorofee, et al, Software Engineering Institute, 1996.
[3] Risk & Opportunity Management: Program & Project Management Success Factors, Harry Jabagchourian and Robert Cvetko,
Fourth National Symposium on Space System Risk Management, May 21 – 24, 2002, McLean, Virginia