Category: Risk Management
Denver’s Disaster: Understanding Why Software Projects Collapse
Dr. Robert Charette uses the examples provided through the failure of Dever International Airport’s baggage checking system to highlight an unspoken truth in software development: even if you…
Governing risk: On board IT
Keeping the board aware of what sorts of risk you as a CIO face is paramount: open communication, understanding, and IT Risk knowledge is the single best way of making sure risk governance is occurring throughout the organization. Through the results of research, this article from i-CIO.com provides five items that must be controlled, including [...]
How to identify, prevent, and recover from project failure
In this podcast from Guerilla project management, Todd Williams is interviewed about how he became involved in rescuing “red” projects from failure. The interview covers questions relating to his personal interest in project failure recovery, lessons he’s learned from dealing with trouble projects, and how people are the critical factor in a project’s success or [...]
IT industry accepting failure as the norm
Eddie Williams doesn’t think anyone sets out to create projects that will fail – but he’s confused as to why so many people accept failure.
How to identify a failing project
Want Something More Than Intuition to ID Failing Projects? Intuition can be a big part of knowing when a project is beginning to fail – but using a hunch to manage and determine project health is remarkably risky. In this article by Jason P. Charvat gives some more empirical suggestions for identifying projects that are [...]
How to Manage Project Risks, Part 1: A Perspective
Jed Simms of CIO.com makes it a point to start his article with the fact that many projects have a risk management plan, but very few ever use that plan successfully. He goes on to state how very few organizations can accurately identify what successful risk management means to them – or how it applies [...]
Pick an Option, Any Option!
The concepts and processes around managing risk are as varies as the types of risk one can encounter. This post by Tom Mochal suggests that all responses and risk management strategies can be boiled down into just five responses: monitor the risk, don’t do anything about the risk, assign the risk to someone else, mitigate [...]
History’s Worst Software Bugs
It’s easy to get annoyed when a password reset makes your email program not open, but that’s a small problem
Is Your Issue Resolution Process Healthy?
Poor Issue Resolution Systems Cost Time and Money All projects should have a process for managing and resolving issues – but not all issue
Stop It! 5 Strategies To Fail Fast On IT Projects
Why would anyone want to fail faster? According to Jonathan Feldman, realizing a project is failing and recognizing that failure can save both time and effort
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