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• The Mission of the Software Program Managers Network is to enable managers of large-scale, software-intensive development or maintenance projects to more effectively manage and succeed by identifying and conveying to them management Best Practices, lessons-learned, and direct support.

• Controlling a company's financial risks starts at the very top. It is within every shareholder's interest to question their company's board and senior management on how the firm manages and controls risk. This offering has been specifically designed as a straightforward 13 point checklist for shareholders. Users who want to know more about the issues raised in each question can use the hyperlink to key risk concepts.

• Steering Government into the Next Millennium: A Guide to Effective Business Continuity in Support of the Year 2000 Challenge - RTF Version.  This document presents a uniform and standardized set of business continuity activities for all departments to implement in order to facilitate governance of the Year 2000 problem and thereby increase its likelihood of success.

• Continuous Risk Management - an approach to risk management promoted by the Software Engineering Institute and selected for use in the EMF. Continuous Risk Management is simply an area of emphasis of good project management. It is applied common sense and should be a normal aspect of the project manager's daily work.

• Software Acquisition Risk Management Guidebook - a risk management guide for those who oversee the acquisition of software-related products and services.

• S:PRIME is a CMM-based methodology & tool supporting risk mitigation via process improvement. Further information can be obtained from the http://www.crim.ca/en/index.epl?href=/en/index.htm GRafP Technologies @ http://www.grafp.com.

• Taxonomy-based Risk Identification - Method for facilitating systematic and repeatable risk identification for projects.

• Team Risk Management - is an approach for customers and suppliers to manage risks and opportunities cooperatively and continuously using proven principles and tools of risk management.

• Enhanced Management Framework Implementation Strategy (Word RTF document)  - A Strategy for Implementing Risk Management in the Federal Government)

The government is committed to delivering its programs and services more efficiently and effectively through the use of Information Technology (IT). Reviews of government IT projects conducted by the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS), and the Auditor General (AG) have identified issues in the government's management and delivery of IT projects.