If you’ve worked on projects for very long, you’ve no doubt heard somebody (usually a manager or executive who just read an article) say, “We have to identify our risks! We must know what is coming and how to avoid it!”
And the exercise involves an all-hands session where people throw out ideas, somebody documents it, and the results get filed away with other artifacts that never see the light of day again. A bit of a doomsday outlook you say? I would agree had I not seen some variation of this play out over and over again. Continue reading
