22.1 Risk management
Risk management is one of the most important jobs for a project manager. You can think of a risk as something that you’d prefer not to have happen. Risks may threaten the project, the software that is being developed, or the organization. Risk management involves anticipating risks that might affect the project schedule or the quality of the software being developed, and then taking action to avoid these risks (Hall 1998; Ould 1999).
Risks can be categorized according to type of risk (technical, organizational, etc.), as I explain in Section 22.1.1. A complementary classification is to classify risks according to what these risks affect:
Project risks affect the project schedule or resources. An example of a project risk ...
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