Agile has become a prevalent process in the management of projects. A process where we constantly roll out updated software (for this article’s purposes, can be used on any type of project).
#15 – AGILE PROJECTS AND RISK – PAUL KOSTEK
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#15 – HEAT MAPS AND GRADING PROJECT RISK – MARK MOORE
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
#15 – RISK IS LIKE FRIES – YOU CAN’T AVOID IT! – PHILIP KNAGG
Recognising that risk is inherent in every IT project is the first step towards managing it effectively.
“Would you like some risk with that?” Is something I almost never hear. In the IT business, we tend to stress the positive and minimise the negative. Continue reading
#15 – BUILDING A RISK INVENTORY TO MANAGE PROJECT RISKS – HOWARD WIENER
In the previous post (Managing Project Risk the PMI Way) we looked at some approaches to identifying uncertainties during the Initiation process group. During Initiation, the project is dealt with more as a whole than at the level of the individual activities required to implement it. In the Plan process group, which follows Initiation, the project is decomposed into a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)—the individual sets of tasks that will produce components of the product that is the goal of the project. Continue reading
#15 – WHAT IS RISK? – LINDA WESTFALL
In today’s business arena there are many risks involved in creating high quality products on time and within budget. With ever-increasing product complexity, increasing demands for better products with more functionality and decreasing time to market windows, doing business is risky.