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Managing Project Assumptions & Risks

Velociteach

We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Thoughtlessly making assumptions or ignoring risks can lead to critical problems.

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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Our risks were identified, but a response strategy was never created.

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s an essential role… because without her, we risked putting any old thing live and ending up with software conflicts and no process to roll back changes if we messed up. Release managers play an important role in managing risk during the software development process – because no one wants buggy software in prod.

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The Forgotten Scrum Event

Scrum.org

And yet, the Sprint serves a pivotal role in Scrum by setting the cadence for feedback, inspection and adaptation in Scrum. However, it's crucial to recognize that the Sprint sets the cadence for all of the other events. A shorter Sprint is better to reduce risk. There’s no meeting for “The Sprint”, you see. Consistency is Key.

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Navigating the Scrum Events - The Sprint

Scrum.org

This time limit has an explicit purpose — “to generate more learning cycles and limit risk of cost and effort to a smaller time frame.” If your team is able to create a usable increment in a shorter time-box than 1 month, consider shortening your Sprint cadence.

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The Three — Wait: Four — Elements of Empiricism

Scrum.org

Retrospective : Inspects the Sprint at the team level, the Definition of Done, and creates improvements. Artifacts that have low transparency can lead to decisions that diminish value and increase risk.”. Provide access to artifacts from your Product Backlog to the Definition of Done. Transparency enables inspection.

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Stakeholder Communication Strategy: Part 3 of 4 Steps of Stakeholder Engagement

Scrum.org

Are they part of our Definition of ‘Done’? Based on the above information, our message may consist Overview of security risk Overview of security testing results, metrics Any security incidents (if any then severity, fix, response time, etc) Roadmap and Strategy Definition of ‘Done’ The message that we want to pass on will change over time.