Category: Risk Management

Decision Trees and Risk Management

Decision Trees and Risk Management By Donna Ritter A decision tree is a popular tool to use to share information about risks using expected value. Every decision has an outcome and something will happen...

Managing Issues/Action Items

Managing Issues/Action Items By John Filicetti In spite of your best efforts at risk management, all projects of any size and complexity will have issues arise that need to be dealt with and resolved....

Entropy and Risk Management

Entropy and Risk Management By Mithun Sridharan In this article, I shall be dealing with the topic – Project Risk Management and demonstrate how one could find mathematical equivalents for an abstract methodology. Any...

Why Projects Fail

Why Projects Fail By Thomas K. Casey If you stay around long enough, sooner or later you will be asked by your boss to participate in your company’s latest, critical, red hot project. The...

Why Manage Risks Formally?

Why Manage Risks Formally? (#2 in the series Know Your Enemy: Software Risk Management) By Karl E. Wiegers A formal risk management process provides a number of benefits to both the project team and...

The Simplified Project Management Process

The Simplified Project Management Process By Kevin Archbold One of the challenges of explaining project management to people who are unfamiliar with the approach, is that descriptions are often either so high-level as to...