Risks and Issues

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12 Principles of Risk Management (PMBOK – with an Agile slant)

The Project Management Body of Knowledge (“PMBOK”) describes 12 Principles of Risk Management. I’ve taken the headings and summarised the main messages from an Agile perspective…

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Agile Risk Management – Identifying Risks (1 of 4)

Risk identification is the first stage in the Agile Risk Management process. This stage is followed by Risk Assessment, Risk Response and Risk Review.

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Agile Risk Management – Assessing Risks (2 of 4)

Risk Assessment is the second stage in the Agile Risk Management process. This stage is preceeded by Risk Identification, and followed by Risk Response and Risk Review.

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Agile Risk Management – Risk Response (3 of 4)

Risk Response is the third stage in the Agile Risk Management process. This stage is preceeded by Risk Identification and Risk Assessment and followed by Risk Review.

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Agile Risk Management – Risk Review (4 of 4)

var dzone_style=”2″;Risk Review is the final stage in the Agile Risk Management process. This stage is preceeded by Risk Identification, Risk Assessment and Risk Response. A Risk is an uncertain event that will impact your chosen path should it be realised. Risks are events that are not currently affecting you – they haven’t happened yet.  Once [...]

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Agile Risk Management for Projects and Programmes

Risks are traditionally identified, assessed, responded to and monitored by a Project Manager. In Agile working environments the responsibility for risk management is shared by all involved. There don’t seem to be any official guidelines on how to manage risks within an Agile environment, so I’ll combine my personal views/learning with notes/ideas I’ve found scattered around the web.

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Agile Risk Management – The difference between Risks and Issues

A Risk is an uncertain event that could impact your chosen path should it be realised. Risks are events that are not currently affecting you – they haven’t happened yet. Once a risk is realised, it has the potential to become an Issue.

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Agile Issue Management for Projects and Programmes

Scrum is great at handling immediate issues or in this case, they’re more commonly referred to as ‘Impediments’…

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Minimising the impact of Sprint disruptions

One of the biggest challenges we’ve faced is trying to balance project work or product development with business-as-usual (BAU) work that can’t necessarily be anticipated – how do you manage the risk of disruption?

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Managing Scrum projects alongside BAU

The most practical application of Scrum (i.e. the easiest to manage!) exists at the interface between those that own individual products and those that deliver the incremental enhancements to those products. In a multi-purpose team environment (i.e. where the team delivering your predictable roadmap is also the team required to address live defects – BAU), it becomes more challenging to commit to a sprint of work (without interruption) because you can’t just leave a critical live defect… live …

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