This document discusses risk management in software projects. It covers identifying risks through checklists and questionnaires, estimating the probability and impact of risks, and developing contingency plans. Key aspects include identifying risks proactively, analyzing each risk's likelihood and consequences, prioritizing high probability/high impact risks, and monitoring risks and triggers to mitigate potential issues. The overall goal is to anticipate problems before they occur and control risks in order to reduce disruption and keep projects on track.
The document discusses risk management in software engineering projects. It covers risk identification by using risk checklists and questionnaires to determine known and predictable risks. It then discusses risk projection, which estimates the probability and impact of identified risks. Finally, it discusses developing a risk mitigation, monitoring, and management plan to proactively address risks through avoidance, monitoring, and contingency planning. The overall goal is to prioritize and systematically manage risks to avoid issues and keep projects on track.
This document discusses risk management in software engineering projects. It covers risk identification, risk projection/estimation, and risk mitigation, monitoring and management. Key points include defining risk, categorizing risks as project, technical or business risks, using checklists and questionnaires to identify known and predictable risks, estimating the probability and impact of risks, and developing a risk management plan to mitigate high-probability, high-impact risks.
Risk management is important for software projects to identify risks that could impact cost, schedule or quality and put mitigation plans in place. The key steps in risk management are risk identification, analysis, planning, monitoring. Risks can be project risks, product risks, technical risks or business risks. It's important to identify both known/predictable risks as well as unpredictable risks. The goal of risk management is to anticipate issues and have contingency plans to minimize negative impacts.
This document discusses risk management in software engineering projects. It covers risk identification, estimation of probability and impact, and developing a risk management, monitoring and mitigation plan. Key aspects include categorizing risks, using checklists to identify known and predictable risks, estimating probability and impact on a scale, prioritizing risks, and developing contingency plans to reduce risks with high probability and impact. The goal is to take proactive steps to avoid risks and have plans in place to manage unavoidable risks in a controlled manner.
The document discusses risk management and provides details on risk identification, projection (estimation), and mitigation. It defines risk and outlines two key characteristics - uncertainty and loss. Risks are categorized by project, technical, and business types. Steps for risk management include identifying possible risks, analyzing each risk's probability and impact, ranking risks, and developing contingency plans for high probability/impact risks.
This document defines risk and risk management strategies for software projects. It discusses reactive versus proactive risk strategies, with proactive being preferred. It describes approaches to categorizing, identifying, and assessing risks. Key aspects of risk management covered include developing a risk table, estimating probability and impact, and creating plans to mitigate, monitor, and manage risks. The overall goal is to identify risks early and take steps to avoid or minimize their impact on the project.
Kumar Bishwakarma gave a presentation on the basics of risk management. He discussed (1) reactive and proactive risk handling strategies, with reactive focusing on problems after they occur and proactive identifying risks in advance. He also covered (2) software risks like project, technical, business, known, predictable and unpredictable risks. Finally, he explained the process of (3) risk identification, projection, assessment, refinement, and developing a risk management, mitigation, monitoring and management plan to address risks throughout a project.
The document discusses risk management in software engineering projects. It covers risk identification by using risk checklists and questionnaires to determine known and predictable risks. It then discusses risk projection, which estimates the probability and impact of identified risks. Finally, it discusses developing a risk mitigation, monitoring, and management plan to proactively address risks through avoidance, monitoring, and contingency planning. The overall goal is to prioritize and systematically manage risks to avoid issues and keep projects on track.
This document discusses risk management in software engineering projects. It covers risk identification, risk projection/estimation, and risk mitigation, monitoring and management. Key points include defining risk, categorizing risks as project, technical or business risks, using checklists and questionnaires to identify known and predictable risks, estimating the probability and impact of risks, and developing a risk management plan to mitigate high-probability, high-impact risks.
Risk management is important for software projects to identify risks that could impact cost, schedule or quality and put mitigation plans in place. The key steps in risk management are risk identification, analysis, planning, monitoring. Risks can be project risks, product risks, technical risks or business risks. It's important to identify both known/predictable risks as well as unpredictable risks. The goal of risk management is to anticipate issues and have contingency plans to minimize negative impacts.
This document discusses risk management in software engineering projects. It covers risk identification, estimation of probability and impact, and developing a risk management, monitoring and mitigation plan. Key aspects include categorizing risks, using checklists to identify known and predictable risks, estimating probability and impact on a scale, prioritizing risks, and developing contingency plans to reduce risks with high probability and impact. The goal is to take proactive steps to avoid risks and have plans in place to manage unavoidable risks in a controlled manner.
The document discusses risk management and provides details on risk identification, projection (estimation), and mitigation. It defines risk and outlines two key characteristics - uncertainty and loss. Risks are categorized by project, technical, and business types. Steps for risk management include identifying possible risks, analyzing each risk's probability and impact, ranking risks, and developing contingency plans for high probability/impact risks.
This document defines risk and risk management strategies for software projects. It discusses reactive versus proactive risk strategies, with proactive being preferred. It describes approaches to categorizing, identifying, and assessing risks. Key aspects of risk management covered include developing a risk table, estimating probability and impact, and creating plans to mitigate, monitor, and manage risks. The overall goal is to identify risks early and take steps to avoid or minimize their impact on the project.
Kumar Bishwakarma gave a presentation on the basics of risk management. He discussed (1) reactive and proactive risk handling strategies, with reactive focusing on problems after they occur and proactive identifying risks in advance. He also covered (2) software risks like project, technical, business, known, predictable and unpredictable risks. Finally, he explained the process of (3) risk identification, projection, assessment, refinement, and developing a risk management, mitigation, monitoring and management plan to address risks throughout a project.
The document discusses risk management for software projects. It covers identifying risks through checklists and questionnaires, projecting risks by estimating probability and impact, and developing a risk mitigation, monitoring and management plan. The plan involves strategies to avoid known risks where possible and control unavoidable risks through contingency planning. Effective risk management requires taking a proactive approach to anticipate and manage risks.
The document discusses risk management for projects. It covers risk identification, which involves categorizing risks and identifying known and predictable risks through checklists and questionnaires. It also discusses risk projection, which involves estimating the probability and impact of risks. Finally, it discusses developing a risk table to prioritize risks and plan risk mitigation, monitoring, and management strategies. The overall goal is to proactively address risks to avoid issues and have contingency plans.
This document discusses risk management in project management. It explains that risk identification, probability assessment, and impact estimation are important activities for risk analysis. Risks can be proactively or reactively managed. Proactive management involves formal risk analysis and addressing root causes, while reactive management involves responding to risks as they occur. Key aspects of risk management include identifying risks, analyzing their probability and impact, developing a risk table to plan mitigation strategies, and continuously monitoring and managing risks throughout the project lifecycle.
This document discusses risk management for software projects. It defines risk as the probability of suffering a loss and explains that risk management aims to reduce risks so the project can be delivered successfully to customers. The document outlines principles of risk management like taking a global perspective and continuous monitoring. It also categorizes types of software risks and describes the risk analysis process of identification, projection, assessment, and management through tools like risk tables. Finally, it presents the risk management paradigm of identifying, analyzing, planning, tracking, controlling, and communicating risks.
This document discusses risk analysis and management for projects. It defines risk as a potential problem that may or may not occur, and outlines why identifying and planning for risks is important for project success. The document then covers various aspects of risk analysis and management, including risk strategies, categories, identification, assessment, refinement, and developing plans to mitigate, monitor, and manage risks. The overall aim is to help project teams understand risks and put processes in place to avoid or minimize risks that could negatively impact a project.
The document discusses risk analysis and management for software projects. It defines risks as potential problems that could affect project completion. The goal of risk analysis is to help teams understand and manage uncertainty. Key aspects covered include identifying risks, assessing probability and impact, prioritizing risks, developing risk mitigation plans, and monitoring risks during the project. The document provides examples of risk categories, analysis steps, and strategies for proactive versus reactive risk management.
This lecture provides short and comprehensive view of software project and risk management. It has basic examples and calculations which is main concern of software project manager. This lecture helps to understand basics of risk management.
Risk management involves identifying, analyzing, and responding to risks throughout a project's lifecycle to help achieve project objectives. It includes identifying potential risks, assessing their probability and impact, developing mitigation strategies, monitoring risks, and documenting the process. The key aspects of risk management covered in the document are defining risk, identifying common risk categories, assessing and prioritizing risks, developing mitigation plans, and establishing principles for an effective risk management process.
This document discusses risk management in software projects. It introduces risk identification, estimation, mitigation, monitoring and management. It explains that an effective risk strategy considers mitigation, monitoring and contingency planning. Risk mitigation aims to avoid risks through advance planning. Risk monitoring tracks whether risks become more or less likely. Risk management prepares for risks that materialize by having contingency plans. The document provides examples of risk mitigation strategies and emphasizes that risk management is an ongoing process.
Risk management involves identifying potential problems, assessing their likelihood and impacts, and developing strategies to address them. There are two main risk strategies - reactive, which addresses risks after issues arise, and proactive, which plans ahead. Key steps in proactive risk management include identifying risks through checklists, estimating their probability and impacts, developing mitigation plans, monitoring risks and mitigation effectiveness, and adjusting plans as needed. Common risk categories include project risks, technical risks, and business risks.
Risk management involves identifying potential risks, assessing their probability and impact, prioritizing risks, developing strategies to mitigate high-priority risks, and continuously monitoring risks throughout the project. There are different categories of risk including project risks, technical risks, business risks, known risks, and unpredictable risks. Effective risk management requires proactively identifying risks, tracking them over time, taking steps to reduce impact or likelihood, and open communication across teams.
The document summarizes the project risk analysis process for NKS Private Limited, a software company. It describes NKS' background and outlines the key steps in risk analysis: risk identification, risk projection including probability and impact assessment, risk refinement, and developing a risk mitigation, monitoring and management plan. An example risk is provided relating to software component reuse. The summary provides an overview of the risk analysis process and examples discussed in the document.
This document discusses risk management for software projects. It defines risk as potential problems that could affect a project's success and introduces reactive and proactive risk strategies. The document outlines common software risks like project risks, technical risks, and business risks. It also discusses risk analysis techniques like risk identification, projection, assessment, and management. These include determining probability and impact, categorizing risks, and developing risk mitigation, monitoring, and management plans. The goal of risk management is to understand risks and develop strategies to avoid or minimize problems during a project's development.
The document discusses software engineering risk management strategies. It describes proactive and reactive risk strategies, where proactive strategies begin before work starts to identify potential risks, while reactive strategies monitor an ongoing project. Key risks include project risks impacting budget, schedule, and resources, technical risks impacting quality and timeliness, and business risks impacting viability. Common business risks involve building something no one wants, a product no longer fitting strategy, sales not understanding the product, losing management support, and losing budget/staff commitment. Risk management aims to specify threats and focuses on known and predictable risks through risk identification techniques.
The document discusses risk analysis and management for software projects. It defines risks as potential problems that could affect project completion. The goal of risk analysis is to help teams understand and manage uncertainty. Key steps include identifying risks, estimating their probability and impact, prioritizing the most important risks, and developing a Risk Mitigation, Monitoring, and Management Plan to avoid, minimize, or prepare for the risks. The document provides examples of risk categories and checklists to help identify project, technical, and business risks.
This document provides an overview of project risk management. It defines project risk as an event that could have a positive or negative impact on a project. Risk management involves identifying risks and developing plans to minimize their effects. The key steps in risk management are risk identification, analysis, response planning, monitoring and control. Managing risks helps improve project success rates, schedule and cost performance by moving from reactive to proactive decision making.
The document discusses risk management in software projects. It describes methods for identifying risks such as using a risk checklist of common risks. It also provides questions to assess overall project risk and discusses estimating the likelihood and impact of risks. Risks are documented in a risk table including categories, probability, impact, and mitigation plans. Developing strategies to avoid, monitor, and manage risks is key to risk management.
This document provides an overview of project risk management. It discusses the goals of risk management, including identifying and planning for risks to help projects succeed. The key aspects covered are identifying risks, analyzing their probability and impact, planning responses, and continuously monitoring risks. Qualitative and quantitative approaches to analysis are outlined. The overall process aims to move projects from reactive "firefighting" to proactive risk-based decision making.
This document provides an overview of project risk management. It discusses what project risk is, the risk management process, and tools for risk identification, analysis, response planning, monitoring and control. The risk management process involves planning risk management, identifying risks, analyzing their probability and impact, developing response plans, monitoring risks throughout the project, and using tools like risk logs and templates. Managing risks proactively helps improve project success rates.
Discover the cutting-edge telemetry solution implemented for Alan Wake 2 by Remedy Entertainment in collaboration with AWS. This comprehensive presentation dives into our objectives, detailing how we utilized advanced analytics to drive gameplay improvements and player engagement.
Key highlights include:
Primary Goals: Implementing gameplay and technical telemetry to capture detailed player behavior and game performance data, fostering data-driven decision-making.
Tech Stack: Leveraging AWS services such as EKS for hosting, WAF for security, Karpenter for instance optimization, S3 for data storage, and OpenTelemetry Collector for data collection. EventBridge and Lambda were used for data compression, while Glue ETL and Athena facilitated data transformation and preparation.
Data Utilization: Transforming raw data into actionable insights with technologies like Glue ETL (PySpark scripts), Glue Crawler, and Athena, culminating in detailed visualizations with Tableau.
Achievements: Successfully managing 700 million to 1 billion events per month at a cost-effective rate, with significant savings compared to commercial solutions. This approach has enabled simplified scaling and substantial improvements in game design, reducing player churn through targeted adjustments.
Community Engagement: Enhanced ability to engage with player communities by leveraging precise data insights, despite having a small community management team.
This presentation is an invaluable resource for professionals in game development, data analytics, and cloud computing, offering insights into how telemetry and analytics can revolutionize player experience and game performance optimization.
The document discusses risk management for software projects. It covers identifying risks through checklists and questionnaires, projecting risks by estimating probability and impact, and developing a risk mitigation, monitoring and management plan. The plan involves strategies to avoid known risks where possible and control unavoidable risks through contingency planning. Effective risk management requires taking a proactive approach to anticipate and manage risks.
The document discusses risk management for projects. It covers risk identification, which involves categorizing risks and identifying known and predictable risks through checklists and questionnaires. It also discusses risk projection, which involves estimating the probability and impact of risks. Finally, it discusses developing a risk table to prioritize risks and plan risk mitigation, monitoring, and management strategies. The overall goal is to proactively address risks to avoid issues and have contingency plans.
This document discusses risk management in project management. It explains that risk identification, probability assessment, and impact estimation are important activities for risk analysis. Risks can be proactively or reactively managed. Proactive management involves formal risk analysis and addressing root causes, while reactive management involves responding to risks as they occur. Key aspects of risk management include identifying risks, analyzing their probability and impact, developing a risk table to plan mitigation strategies, and continuously monitoring and managing risks throughout the project lifecycle.
This document discusses risk management for software projects. It defines risk as the probability of suffering a loss and explains that risk management aims to reduce risks so the project can be delivered successfully to customers. The document outlines principles of risk management like taking a global perspective and continuous monitoring. It also categorizes types of software risks and describes the risk analysis process of identification, projection, assessment, and management through tools like risk tables. Finally, it presents the risk management paradigm of identifying, analyzing, planning, tracking, controlling, and communicating risks.
This document discusses risk analysis and management for projects. It defines risk as a potential problem that may or may not occur, and outlines why identifying and planning for risks is important for project success. The document then covers various aspects of risk analysis and management, including risk strategies, categories, identification, assessment, refinement, and developing plans to mitigate, monitor, and manage risks. The overall aim is to help project teams understand risks and put processes in place to avoid or minimize risks that could negatively impact a project.
The document discusses risk analysis and management for software projects. It defines risks as potential problems that could affect project completion. The goal of risk analysis is to help teams understand and manage uncertainty. Key aspects covered include identifying risks, assessing probability and impact, prioritizing risks, developing risk mitigation plans, and monitoring risks during the project. The document provides examples of risk categories, analysis steps, and strategies for proactive versus reactive risk management.
This lecture provides short and comprehensive view of software project and risk management. It has basic examples and calculations which is main concern of software project manager. This lecture helps to understand basics of risk management.
Risk management involves identifying, analyzing, and responding to risks throughout a project's lifecycle to help achieve project objectives. It includes identifying potential risks, assessing their probability and impact, developing mitigation strategies, monitoring risks, and documenting the process. The key aspects of risk management covered in the document are defining risk, identifying common risk categories, assessing and prioritizing risks, developing mitigation plans, and establishing principles for an effective risk management process.
This document discusses risk management in software projects. It introduces risk identification, estimation, mitigation, monitoring and management. It explains that an effective risk strategy considers mitigation, monitoring and contingency planning. Risk mitigation aims to avoid risks through advance planning. Risk monitoring tracks whether risks become more or less likely. Risk management prepares for risks that materialize by having contingency plans. The document provides examples of risk mitigation strategies and emphasizes that risk management is an ongoing process.
Risk management involves identifying potential problems, assessing their likelihood and impacts, and developing strategies to address them. There are two main risk strategies - reactive, which addresses risks after issues arise, and proactive, which plans ahead. Key steps in proactive risk management include identifying risks through checklists, estimating their probability and impacts, developing mitigation plans, monitoring risks and mitigation effectiveness, and adjusting plans as needed. Common risk categories include project risks, technical risks, and business risks.
Risk management involves identifying potential risks, assessing their probability and impact, prioritizing risks, developing strategies to mitigate high-priority risks, and continuously monitoring risks throughout the project. There are different categories of risk including project risks, technical risks, business risks, known risks, and unpredictable risks. Effective risk management requires proactively identifying risks, tracking them over time, taking steps to reduce impact or likelihood, and open communication across teams.
The document summarizes the project risk analysis process for NKS Private Limited, a software company. It describes NKS' background and outlines the key steps in risk analysis: risk identification, risk projection including probability and impact assessment, risk refinement, and developing a risk mitigation, monitoring and management plan. An example risk is provided relating to software component reuse. The summary provides an overview of the risk analysis process and examples discussed in the document.
This document discusses risk management for software projects. It defines risk as potential problems that could affect a project's success and introduces reactive and proactive risk strategies. The document outlines common software risks like project risks, technical risks, and business risks. It also discusses risk analysis techniques like risk identification, projection, assessment, and management. These include determining probability and impact, categorizing risks, and developing risk mitigation, monitoring, and management plans. The goal of risk management is to understand risks and develop strategies to avoid or minimize problems during a project's development.
The document discusses software engineering risk management strategies. It describes proactive and reactive risk strategies, where proactive strategies begin before work starts to identify potential risks, while reactive strategies monitor an ongoing project. Key risks include project risks impacting budget, schedule, and resources, technical risks impacting quality and timeliness, and business risks impacting viability. Common business risks involve building something no one wants, a product no longer fitting strategy, sales not understanding the product, losing management support, and losing budget/staff commitment. Risk management aims to specify threats and focuses on known and predictable risks through risk identification techniques.
The document discusses risk analysis and management for software projects. It defines risks as potential problems that could affect project completion. The goal of risk analysis is to help teams understand and manage uncertainty. Key steps include identifying risks, estimating their probability and impact, prioritizing the most important risks, and developing a Risk Mitigation, Monitoring, and Management Plan to avoid, minimize, or prepare for the risks. The document provides examples of risk categories and checklists to help identify project, technical, and business risks.
This document provides an overview of project risk management. It defines project risk as an event that could have a positive or negative impact on a project. Risk management involves identifying risks and developing plans to minimize their effects. The key steps in risk management are risk identification, analysis, response planning, monitoring and control. Managing risks helps improve project success rates, schedule and cost performance by moving from reactive to proactive decision making.
The document discusses risk management in software projects. It describes methods for identifying risks such as using a risk checklist of common risks. It also provides questions to assess overall project risk and discusses estimating the likelihood and impact of risks. Risks are documented in a risk table including categories, probability, impact, and mitigation plans. Developing strategies to avoid, monitor, and manage risks is key to risk management.
This document provides an overview of project risk management. It discusses the goals of risk management, including identifying and planning for risks to help projects succeed. The key aspects covered are identifying risks, analyzing their probability and impact, planning responses, and continuously monitoring risks. Qualitative and quantitative approaches to analysis are outlined. The overall process aims to move projects from reactive "firefighting" to proactive risk-based decision making.
This document provides an overview of project risk management. It discusses what project risk is, the risk management process, and tools for risk identification, analysis, response planning, monitoring and control. The risk management process involves planning risk management, identifying risks, analyzing their probability and impact, developing response plans, monitoring risks throughout the project, and using tools like risk logs and templates. Managing risks proactively helps improve project success rates.
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Discover the cutting-edge telemetry solution implemented for Alan Wake 2 by Remedy Entertainment in collaboration with AWS. This comprehensive presentation dives into our objectives, detailing how we utilized advanced analytics to drive gameplay improvements and player engagement.
Key highlights include:
Primary Goals: Implementing gameplay and technical telemetry to capture detailed player behavior and game performance data, fostering data-driven decision-making.
Tech Stack: Leveraging AWS services such as EKS for hosting, WAF for security, Karpenter for instance optimization, S3 for data storage, and OpenTelemetry Collector for data collection. EventBridge and Lambda were used for data compression, while Glue ETL and Athena facilitated data transformation and preparation.
Data Utilization: Transforming raw data into actionable insights with technologies like Glue ETL (PySpark scripts), Glue Crawler, and Athena, culminating in detailed visualizations with Tableau.
Achievements: Successfully managing 700 million to 1 billion events per month at a cost-effective rate, with significant savings compared to commercial solutions. This approach has enabled simplified scaling and substantial improvements in game design, reducing player churn through targeted adjustments.
Community Engagement: Enhanced ability to engage with player communities by leveraging precise data insights, despite having a small community management team.
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Objective
To identify the impact of speed limit restrictions in different constituencies over the years with the help of DID technique to conclude whether having strict speed limit restrictions can help to reduce the increasing number of road accidents on weekends.
Context*
Generally, on weekends people tend to spend time with their family and friends and go for outings, parties, shopping, etc. which results in an increased number of vehicles and crowds on the roads.
Over the years a rapid increase in road casualties was observed on weekends by the Government.
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4. What Is Software Risk?
• Risk is an expectation of loss, a potential problem
that may or may not occur in the future.
• It is generally caused due to lack of information,
control or time.
• A possibility of suffering from loss in software
development process is called a software risk.
• Loss can be anything, increase in production cost,
development of poor quality software, not being
able to complete the project on time.
4
5. Types of software risks
• Software risk exists because the future is
uncertain and there are many known and
unknown things that cannot be incorporated
in the project plan.
• A software risk can be of two types
– (1) internal risks that are within the control of
the project manager and
– (2) external risks that are beyond the control of
project manager. 5
6. 6
Definition of Risk
• A risk is a potential problem – it might happen and it might not
• Conceptual definition of risk
– Risk concerns future happenings
– Risk involves change in mind, opinion, actions, places, etc.
– Risk involves choice and the uncertainty that choice entails
• Two characteristics of risk
– Uncertainty – the risk may or may not happen, that is, there are no 100%
risks (those, instead, are called constraints)
– Loss – the risk becomes a reality and unwanted consequences or losses
occur
7. 7
Risk Categorization – Approach #1
• Project risks
– They threaten the project plan
– If they become real, it is likely that the project schedule will slip and that
costs will increase
• Technical risks
– They threaten the quality and timeliness of the software to be produced
– If they become real, implementation may become difficult or impossible
• Business risks
– They threaten the viability of the software to be built
– If they become real, they jeopardize the project or the product
(More on next slide)
8. 8
Risk Categorization – Approach #1
(continued)
• Sub-categories of Business risks
– Market risk – building an excellent product or system that no one really
wants
– Strategic risk – building a product that no longer fits into the overall
business strategy for the company
– Sales risk – building a product that the sales force doesn't understand how
to sell
– Management risk – losing the support of senior management due to a
change in focus or a change in people
– Budget risk – losing budgetary or personnel commitment
9. 9
Risk Categorization – Approach #2
• Known risks
– Those risks that can be uncovered after careful evaluation of the project plan,
the business and technical environment in which the project is being
developed, and other reliable information sources (e.g., unrealistic delivery
date)
• Predictable risks
– Those risks that are extrapolated from past project experience (e.g., past
turnover)
• Unpredictable risks
– Those risks that can and do occur, but are extremely difficult to identify in
advance
10. Risk Management
• Risk management is carried out to:
– Identify the risk
– Reduce the impact of risk
– Reduce the probability or likelihood of risk
– Risk monitoring
10
Risk
monitoring
Reduce the
probability
or likelihood
of risk
Reduce the
impact of
risk
Identify the
risk
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Reactive vs. Proactive
Risk Strategies
• Reactive risk strategies
– "Don't worry, I'll think of something"
– The majority of software teams and managers rely on this approach
– Nothing is done about risks until something goes wrong
• The team then flies into action in an attempt to correct the problem
rapidly (fire fighting)
– Crisis management is the choice of management techniques
• Proactive risk strategies
– Steps for risk management are followed (see next slide)
– Primary objective is to avoid risk and to have a contingency plan in
place to handle unavoidable risks in a controlled and effective
manner
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Steps for Risk Management
1) Identify possible risks; recognize what can go wrong
2) Analyze each risk to estimate the probability that it will occur and
the impact (i.e., damage) that it will do if it does occur
3) Rank the risks by probability and impact
- Impact may be negligible, marginal, critical, and catastrophic
4) Develop a contingency plan to manage those risks having high
probability and high impact
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Steps for Risk Management
Identify possible risks; recognize what can go wrong
Analyze each risk to estimate the probability that it
will occur and the impact (i.e., damage) that it will
do if it does occur
Rank the risks by probability and impact
- Impact may be negligible, marginal, critical, and
catastrophic
Develop a contingency plan to manage those risks
having high probability and high impact
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Background
• Risk identification is a systematic attempt to specify threats to the
project plan
• By identifying known and predictable risks, the project manager takes
a first step toward avoiding them when possible and controlling them
when necessary
• Generic risks
– Risks that are a potential threat to every software project
• Product-specific risks
– Risks that can be identified only by those a with a clear understanding of
the technology, the people, and the environment that is specific to the
software that is to be built
– This requires examination of the project plan and the statement of scope
– "What special characteristics of this product may threaten our project
plan?"
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Risk Item Checklist
Used as one way to identify risks
Focuses on known and predictable risks in
specific subcategories (see next slide)
Can be organized in several ways
•A list of characteristics relevant to each risk subcategory
•Questionnaire that leads to an estimate on the impact of each
risk
•A list containing a set of risk component and drivers and their
probability of occurrence
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Known and Predictable Risk Categories
1-Product size risks associated with overall size of the software to be built
2-Business
impact
risks associated with constraints imposed by management or the marketplace
3-Customer
characteristics
risks associated with sophistication of the customer and the developer's ability to
communicate with the customer in a timely manner
4-Process
definition
risks associated with the degree to which the software process has been defined and
is followed
5-Development
environment
risks associated with availability and quality of the tools to be used to build the
project
6-Technology to
be built
risks associated with complexity of the system to be built and the "newness" of the
technology in the system
7-Staff size and
experience
risks associated with overall technical and project experience of the software
engineers who will do the work
18. Recording Risk
Information
These courseware materials are
to be used in conjunction with
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Project: Embedded software for XYZ system
Risk type: schedule risk
Priority (1 low ... 5 critical): 4
Risk factor: Project completion will depend on tests which
require
hardware component under development. Hardware component
delivery may be delayed
Probability: 60 %
Impact: Project completion will be delayed for each day that
hardware is unavailable for use in software testing
Monitoring approach:
Scheduled milestone reviews with hardware group
Contingency plan:
Modification of testing strategy to accommodate delay using
software simulation
Estimated resources: 6 additional person months beginning 7-1-
96
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Questionnaire on Project Risk
1) Have top software and customer managers formally committed to
support the project?
2) Are end-users enthusiastically committed to the project and the
system/product to be built?
3) Are requirements fully understood by the software engineering team
and its customers?
4) Have customers been involved fully in the definition of
requirements?
5) Do end-users have realistic expectations?
6) Is the project scope stable?
(Questions are ordered by their relative importance to project success)
(More on next slide)
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Questionnaire on Project Risk
(continued)
7) Does the software engineering team have the right mix of skills?
8) Are project requirements stable?
9) Does the project team have experience with the technology to be
implemented?
10) Is the number of people on the project team adequate to do the job?
11) Do all customer/user constituencies agree on the importance of the
project and on the requirements for the system/product to be built?
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Risk Components and Drivers
• The project manager identifies the risk drivers that affect the following risk
components
– Performance risk - the degree of uncertainty that the product will meet its
requirements and be fit for its intended use
– Cost risk - the degree of uncertainty that the project budget will be maintained
– Support risk - the degree of uncertainty that the resultant software will be easy
to correct, adapt, and enhance
– Schedule risk - the degree of uncertainty that the project schedule will be
maintained and that the product will be delivered on time
• The impact of each risk driver on the risk component is divided into one of
four impact levels
– Negligible, marginal, critical, and catastrophic
• Risk drivers can be assessed as impossible, improbable, probable, and
frequent
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Background
• Risk projection (or estimation) attempts to rate each risk in two ways
– The probability that the risk is real
– The consequence of the problems associated with the risk, should it occur
• The project planner, managers, and technical staff perform four risk
projection steps (see next slide)
• The intent of these steps is to consider risks in a manner that leads to
prioritization
• By prioritizing risks, the software team can allocate limited resources
where they will have the most impact
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Risk Projection/Estimation Steps
1) Establish a scale that reflects the perceived
likelihood of a risk (e.g., 1-low, 10-high)
2) Delineate the consequences of the risk
3) Estimate the impact of the risk on the project
and product
4) Note the overall accuracy of the risk projection
so that there will be no misunderstandings
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Contents of a Risk Table
• A risk table provides a project manager with a simple technique for
risk projection
• It consists of five columns
– Risk Summary – short description of the risk
– Risk Category – one of seven risk categories (slide 12)
– Probability – estimation of risk occurrence based on group input
– Impact – (1) catastrophic (2) critical (3) marginal (4) negligible
– RMMM – Pointer to a paragraph in the Risk Mitigation, Monitoring, and
Management Plan
Risk Summary Risk Category Probability Impact (1-4) RMMM
(More on next slide)
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Developing a Risk Table
• List all risks in the first column (by way of the help of the risk item
checklists)
• Mark the category of each risk
• Estimate the probability of each risk occurring
• Assess the impact of each risk based on an averaging of the four risk
components to determine an overall impact value (See next slide)
• Sort the rows by probability and impact in descending order
• Draw a horizontal cutoff line in the table that indicates the risks that
will be given further attention
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Assessing Risk Impact
• Three factors affect the consequences that are likely if a risk
does occur
– Its nature – This indicates the problems that are likely if the risk occurs
– Its scope – This combines the severity of the risk (how serious was it)
with its overall distribution (how much was affected)
– Its timing – This considers when and for how long the impact will be felt
• The overall risk exposure formula is RE = P x C
– P = the probability of occurrence for a risk
– C = the cost to the project should the risk actually occur
• Example
– P = 80% probability that 18 of 60 software components will have to be
developed
– C = Total cost of developing 18 components is $25,000
– RE = .80 x $25,000 = $20,000
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Background
• An effective strategy for dealing with risk must consider three issues
(Note: these are not mutually exclusive)
– Risk mitigation (i.e., avoidance)
– Risk monitoring
– Risk management and contingency planning
• Risk mitigation (avoidance) is the primary strategy and is achieved
through a plan
– Example: Risk of high staff turnover (see next slide)
(More on next slide)
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Meet with current staff to determine causes for turnover (e.g., poor
working conditions, low pay, competitive job market)
Mitigate those causes that are under our control before the project starts
Once the project commences, assume turnover will occur and develop
techniques to ensure continuity when people leave
Organize project teams so that information about each development
activity is widely dispersed
Define documentation standards and establish mechanisms to ensure that
documents are developed in a timely manner
Conduct peer reviews of all work (so that more than one person is "up to
speed")
Assign a backup staff member for every critical technologist
Strategy for Reducing Staff Turnover
Background (continued)
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Background (continued)
• During risk monitoring, the project manager monitors factors that may
provide an indication of whether a risk is becoming more or less likely
• Risk management and contingency planning assume that mitigation
efforts have failed and that the risk has become a reality
• RMMM steps incur additional project cost
– Large projects may have identified 30 – 40 risks
• Risk is not limited to the software project itself
– Risks can occur after the software has been delivered to the user
(More on next slide)
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Background (continued)
• Software safety and hazard analysis
– These are software quality assurance activities that focus on the
identification and assessment of potential hazards that may affect software
negatively and cause an entire system to fail
– If hazards can be identified early in the software process, software design
features can be specified that will either eliminate or control potential
hazards
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The RMMM Plan
• The RMMM plan may be a part of the software development plan or
may be a separate document
• Once RMMM has been documented and the project has begun, the risk
mitigation, and monitoring steps begin
– Risk mitigation is a problem avoidance activity
– Risk monitoring is a project tracking activity
• Risk monitoring has three objectives
– To assess whether predicted risks do, in fact, occur
– To ensure that risk aversion steps defined for the risk are being properly
applied
– To collect information that can be used for future risk analysis
• The findings from risk monitoring may allow the project manager to
ascertain what risks caused which problems throughout the project
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Seven Principles of Risk Management
View software risks within the context of a system and the business
problem that is intended to solve
Maintain a global
perspective
Think about risks that may arise in the future; establish contingency plans
Take a forward-looking
view
Encourage all stakeholders and users to point out risks at any time
Encourage open
communication
Integrate the consideration of risk into the software process
Integrate risk
management
Modify identified risks as more becomes known and add new risks as better
insight is achieved
Emphasize a
continuous process of
risk management
A shared vision by all stakeholders facilitates better risk identification and
assessment
Develop a shared
product vision
Pool the skills and experience of all stakeholders when conducting risk
management activities
Encourage teamwork
when managing risk
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Summary
• Whenever much is riding on a software project, common sense dictates risk
analysis
– Yet, most project managers do it informally and superficially, if at all
• However, the time spent in risk management results in
– Less upheaval during the project
– A greater ability to track and control a project
– The confidence that comes with planning for problems before they occur
• Risk management can absorb a significant amount of the project planning
effort…but the effort is worth it