Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

Authors’ Note

This text is divided into five parts, each one intended to answer one of the major questions likely to be on the mind of a new or potential risk manager:

Part I:     Why bother to do risk management?

Part II:     Why shouldn’t we do it? (Wherein the authors come clean about some of the potential negatives of introducing risk management into an organization that isn’t quite ready for it.)

Part III:    How shall we go about it?

Part IV:    How much risk should our organization be willing to take?

Part V:     How do we know whether or notour risk management approach is working?

The page introducing each new part breaks down the overall question into detailed questions. By reading the chapters in each part, you should find answers to ...