This report presents data collected from 30 comprehensive assessments conducted in Canadian organizations involved in developing products or providing services drawing on Software Engineering and Information Technology. The size of the assessed organizations ranged from 10 professionals to 250, with an average of 75.

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Intuition can be misleading!

This short presentation demonstrates that the occurrence of events changes people's perception of the outcomes to which they may be exposed. After an event has occurred once, it will be perceived as much more frequent even though in reality, its recurrence probability has not changed.

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The most common consequences of ineffective or no procedural risk management are the excessive time spent by managers in dealing with unanticipated difficulties.

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By and large, effort is the most commonly used parameter for measuring software initiatives. The problem of course is that effort is not an independent variable. It depends on who is doing the work and how it is done. This presentation looks at an approach that has been used to convert the large amount of effort data usually collected in an organization into something that can meaningfully be used for estimation and comparison purposes.

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This presentation identifies Do’s and Don’ts, pitfalls, and remedial actions observed or experienced from the appraisal trenches, and to prepare the prospective appraiser and the senior manager sponsoring an appraisal to what can go wrong, while providing the means of making the appraisal go right. Making an appraisal go right constitutes a critical step in reaping the ROI benefits resulting from process improvement.

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Download this file to learn more about the X:PRIME methodology. It will provide you with a good overview of what the methodology can achieve.
 
As a project manager, use the X:PRIME methodology to manage operational risks in your project.

As an executive manager, use the methodology to assess the operational risks of your entire organization, in order to secure financing and to satisfy your customers' risk management requirements.
 
As a procurement manager, apply the methodology to carry out audits and management reviews of your suppliers.
 
And if you are an investor, the methodology will tell you how much risk you are incurring when you invest in a company.

With the inclusion of relevant models developed with the help of the Model Editor module of the X:PRIME Resolver solution, operational risk assessment methods can be derived from the X:PRIME methodology  for various domains.

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