Microsoft® Solutions Framework Essentials

MSF Risk Management Process

As discussed at the beginning of this chapter, MSF Risk Management consists of two things: the MSF Risk Management Process and the discipline to use it efficiently, effectively, systematically, and repetitiously. This section bundles it all together into a process that enables proactive risk management, continuous risk assessment, and integration into decision making throughout a project or operational life cycle. A project needs just enough rigor to make sure that risks are continuously assessed, monitored, and actively managed until they are either resolved or turn into issues to be handled.

Although the MSF Risk Management Process draws upon the well-known Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Continuous Risk Management ...