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Realistic about Risk: Software development with Real Options
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Summary
This session introduces Real Options and shows how it can help in running your project. Real Options is a decision-making process based on Financial Option Theory and Applied Psychology that can be used to manage risk. Applying Real Options to software development explains why many of the Agile practices are so successful.
Bio
Olav Maassen is Chief Engineer at QNH, the Netherlands and has nine years experience in IT doing projects mainly for financial institutions. Chris Matts is programme manager with a strong background in business analysis and development. He uses real options and agile project management techniques to optimise the delivery of business value whilst effectively managing project risks.
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.
Jun 30, 2009