Risk Management

General Overviews:

• Know Your Enemy: Software Risk Management. An overview of risk management, which includes a list of typical software risks and methods and procedures to contain risk within acceptable levels. Straight forward and easy to read.
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• Risk Assessment and Management Process (RAMP, North Carolina). Provides methodology to assist in the defining, analysis and quantification of project risks. Includes information on risk categories, project risk impact analysis, risk classification, risk mitigation and a chart of potential areas of risk.
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• Software Tech News, Assessing Project Risk. Outlines important steps involved in risk management including identifying, analyzing and assigning priorities to risk. Touches on methods for computing risk exposure, risk impact and probability. Includes a list of top 10 risks.
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Checklists & Questionnaires:

• Generic Software Project Risk Factors. A comprehensive spreadsheet to record generic software risks, includes sample indicators of low, medium, high risk for each item - mission and goals, program management, decision drivers, organization management, customers/users, project parameters, product content, deployment, development process, development environment, project management, project team, technology and maintenance.
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• Generic Project Risk Factors. A comprehensive spreadsheet to record generic project risks, includes sample indicators of low, medium, high risk for each item - mission and goals, program mgt, organization mgt, customers/users, product characteristics, deployment, development process, development environment, project management, team members, technology, maintenance and support.
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• Checklist for Risk Assessment. A set of 27 questions to ask in assessing the risk of a project.
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Generic Forms & Templates:

• Risk Watch List. [TEMPLATE]
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• Risk Item Description. [TEMPLATE]
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• Risk Status Report. [TEMPLATE]
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• Top N Risk Chart. [TEMPLATE]
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• Risk Management Plan. A Microsoft Word template for documenting roles and responsibilities (in risk management), documenting risks and their status, documenting process used and risks identified.
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