PROGRAM RISK MANAGEMENT
PROGRAM RISK MANAGEMENT
A project can succeed only if there is a robust risk management mechanism
Approach
Establish Risk identification and tracking mechanism
Establish governance mechanism to review and report risks
Reduced Risks
• Best mitigation steps
Identify Risks Assess Risks Manage Risks Predictable Delivery
across multiple • Assess risk • Plan mitigations, • Time to market
dimensions potential for the establish
project communications
• Schedule, Scope, and constantly
Quality, Process, revisit risks
People, etc
RISK MANAGEMENT - DIMENSIONS
SCHEDULE QUALITY PROCESS Others (governance, utilization, dependency,
etc)
[Link] date will be [Link] design reviews [Link] of Project
affected management/Agile practices is low [Link] with other systems
[Link] not signed off
[Link] in meeting the [Link] Sprint planning and [Link] party interfaces may not be ready on
timelines for delivery to [Link] many code review comments grooming of stories time
testing team from customer
[Link] scientific estimation [Link] availability of required environments
[Link] may not happen in [Link] delivery delayed to testing methodology used
time phase [Link] support for customer for
[Link] much spill over of stories to clarifications/signoffs
SCOPE [Link] test strategy next sprint
[Link] automation - DevOps, Software
[Link] scope changes [Link] Unit testing engineering life cycle activities, etc
[Link] are not clear [Link] much defects leaking to PEOPLE [Link] Governance mechanism is not robust
testing phase
[Link] clarity on NFRs [Link] mismatch/low skill levels with [Link] Knowledge Transfer in Transition
[Link] practices maturity is many team members programs
[Link] criteria not low
clear [Link] productivity/velocity [Link] utilisation of people
[Link] NFR testing strategy
[Link] are changed [Link] many Unplanned leaves [Link] Kickoff not done for the project
inbetween sprint cycle 10. Low automated test coverage
[Link] is high