Practical Software Risk Management
(A 2 Day Workshop)

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Workshop Motivation

Everybody agrees that software risk management, if done properly, is a good thing to do. Who would not want to identify potential problems early enough to make a difference in the ultimate quality of the product?

Barry Boehm believes that "Risk Management helps people avoid disasters, avoid rework, avoid overkill, and stimulate win-win situations on software projects".

According to Dr. Charette, "Risk Management reduces a project's risk exposure and reducing risk exposure makes good business sense".

Can we answer the following questions for our projects:

• Can we name a risk that we had six months ago, and describe what we did to mitigate it?
• What percentage of the project's risks have been identified by non-managerial workers?
• How much money and time do we set aside for risk identification and management?
• How many risks exist in risk database? How recently did we update the risk database?

Why, then, don't we do risk management or why do we fail to do it successfully? 

The workshop helps us answer these questions, and more. It also explores the various reasons, like:

• "I don't have the time".
• "Risk Management is not rewarded".
• "We already know our risks which are the typical barriers to a successful risk management program".

Workshop Objective

This 1-day course provides a conceptual and practical understanding of the methods and tools for Identifying, Analysing and Managing Software Risks. The course is developed using tried and tested approaches to software risk management. It draws upon QAI's real life experience and the knowledge of various thought-leaders like Barry Boehm, Capers Jones, Robert Charette and Dale Walter Karolak. The course is greatly influenced by Software Engineering Institute's pioneering efforts in the area of Continuous Risk Management. Individual and team exercises will be supported by appropriate papers, case studies and technical reports-to be distributed and discussed as part of the course.

Who Should Attend?

The course is ideal for professionals directly involved with software projects, such as, project managers, team leaders and software engineers. Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG(SM)) members, Software Quality Assurance (SQA) team members and Testing team members can also benefit from attending this course.

Workshop Contents

Introduction

• What is Risk and Software Risk Management ?
• Motivation for Software Risk Management
• Reasons we don't do Software Risk Management
• SEI(SM)'s Risk Management Paradigm
• Identifying and recording software risks
• Risk Taxonomy
• Tools and methods for identifying and recording risks
• Analysing and classifying risks
• Tools and methods for analysing and classifying risks
• Risk Management Plans
• Tracking and controlling risks
• Risk Metrics
• Effective Communications: An enabler to risk management
• Introducing Software Risk Management in your project
• Introducing Software Risk Management in your organization
• Risk Management and the SDLC
• Risk Management in the CMM®
• Other useful tools for successful risk management

Conclusions and wrap-up

Workshop Kit

Participants will receive:
Workshop workbook, case studies and technical reports.