#18 – THE MORE RISK THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THINGS REMAIN THE SAME – CHRIS PEACE
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#18 – RISK ASSESSMENT: A SIMPLE QUALITY EXAMPLE – JIM LAMPRECHT
Over 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
Risk 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 – QUALITY EXECUTIVES SHOULD BE ABLE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS- GREG HUTCHINS
In our last issue, we posed the following questions that we believe each quality executive should be able to answer about risk. The questions are:
- What does operational materiality mean to you?
- What is your organization’s risk appetite?
- What type of risk assurance do you require?
- To whom are risks reported? Continue reading
#18 – HOW A KID’S ELEPHANT BECAME YOUR NEXT INFORMATION SECURITY NIGHTMARE – JOHN MILLICAN
In The Beginning
To quote Charlie Brown, “Aaaaaaaaaaaargh!” Haven’t we learned anything? The mantra for years has been to build security in at the beginning not the end. Continue reading