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MOHSIN AZAM AFRIDI
What is RISK?
What are Risk Types in Software Development?
What are the Sources of Risk?
How to Manage the Risk?
• An unforeseen/future uncertain event or activity that can impact the project's progress, result or outcome in a positive or negative way. A risk can be assessed using two factors: impact and probability.
• Project Risk Management:• Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated
and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.
• Schedule Risk:
• Wrong time estimation
• Resources are not tracked properly. All resources like staff, systems, skills of individuals etc.
• Failure to identify complex functionalities and time required to develop those functionalities.
• Unexpected project scope expansions.
• Budget Risk:
• Wrong budget estimation.
• Cost overruns.
• Project scope expansion.
• Operational Risks:Risks of loss due to improper process implementation, failed system or some external events risks.Causes of Operational risks:
• Failure to address priority conflicts
• Failure to resolve the responsibilities
• Insufficient resources
• No proper subject training
• No resource planning
• No communication in team.
• Technical risks:
• Running out of fund.
• Market development
• Changing customer product strategy and priority
• Government rule changes.
The Ten Top Universal Risk to Software projects are:
• 1. User involvement
• 2. Executive support
• 3. Requirements inflation (or scope creep)
• 4. Schedule flaws
• 5. Unrealistic expectations
• 6. Staff turnover
• 7. Project management
• 8. Specification breakdown
• 9. Technology and uncertainty
• 10. Not knowing what is stake.
• Risk Sources pdf:
• Measure - realise what risks you face, assess their probability and impact.(budget,dates, other commitments)
• Minimise - identify what could be done to remove or reduce risks and do it.(Do something about it)
• Mention - speak to the sponsor, don't keep risks secret.(Who owns the project risk)
• Monitor - keep risks under review, monitor and reduce them as you go along.(use risk registers.+ don’t manage minor risks)
• Modify - share your experience, update your company's risk checklists.(check for every stage at end + project support function)
• http://www.hraconsulting-ltd.co.uk/risk-management.htm
• http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=548300
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_management