Category Archives: Projects@Risk™ – Malcolm Peart

#18 – MITIGATING PROJECT RISK BY ADOPTING ACCELERATED DELIVERY TECHNIQUES – HOWARD WIENER

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Howard Wiener PixIn the process of gaining approval for and initiating projects, many companies create a major risk of failure by committing to a scope, schedule and budget prematurely.  This often comes about because project sponsors are disinclined or disincentivized to navigate the internal funding process more than once so they take a rough project definition and attach a heavily padded estimate to it.  Continue reading →

#18 – THE MORE RISK THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THINGS REMAIN THE SAME – CHRIS PEACE

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Chris Peace pixTHE MORE RISK THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY REMAIN THE SAME
So, the more things change in risk, the more they stay the same. And Lord Chesterfield (1753) wrote “The chapter of knowledge is very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one”. We have more guidance in the form of standards but still have disasters – high profile (and front page) as well as low profile. In this short article I explore some of those disasters and some of the consequences. Continue reading →

#18 – RISK ASSESSMENT: A SIMPLE QUALITY EXAMPLE – JIM LAMPRECHT

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Jim LamprechtOver the past decade or so, the topic of risk analysis has become an increasingly important subject.  Recently and belatedly, the ISO 9001 committee decided to sprinkle throughout the standard requirements for risk analysis that will be part of the 2015 revision.

Risk analysis need not be a difficult subject to address and yet, a Google™ search of “risk analysis” will yield over 344 millions results!  Even if only a tenth of a percent of these results is of interest, anyone interested in the subject may well need several lifetimes to read them all.  Worse yet, should you be able to complete this Herculean task, you may still not know what to do or how much to do. Continue reading →

#18 – IN SEARCH OF RISK! – FRANK HARRIS

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Frank HarrisRisk is defined as always in the future and is an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has an effect on at least one project objective (usually in the area of scope, budget, or schedule).

As a project manager or a stakeholder on a company endeavor, risk is the one thing you must search and destroy as soon as possible and maintain that attitude throughout the project life cycle as the consequences of not understanding these risks can certainly doom all good intentions on any project. Continue reading →

#19 – SOFTWARE IS RISKY BUSINESS – LINDA WESTFALL

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Linda Westfall HeadshotThere are many risks involved in creating high quality software on time and within budget.  With ever-increasing software complexity, increasing demands for bigger and better products, and even decreasing time to market, the software industry is a high-risk business.

When software teams don’t manage these risks, they leave their projects vulnerable to factors that can cause major rework, major cost or schedule over-runs, delivered product that don’t match their intended use requirements (for example, product that have safety, security, usability or functionality gap) or other project failures.  Continue reading →