risk management

post-it notes scattered on a laptop Ready, Fire, Aim Anti-Pattern

If your organization is experiencing disproportionally higher chaos on your larger projects, you might ask if you had sufficient information and time at the beginning to understand the problem being solved before anyone committed to cost or schedule targets.

What if My Steering Committee Won’t Show Up? What if My Steering Committee Won’t Show Up?

If the people assigned to give you guidance are AWOL, how might you proceed?

Risk Helps Set Realistic Project Sponsor Expectations Risk Helps Set Realistic Project Sponsor Expectations

This is an article about three ideas: project sponsorship, project wagers, and risk.  Understanding their relationship is critical to becoming more effective as project managers, and organizational leaders.

Why Are Credential Stuffing Attacks On The Rise?

Malicious hackers have an abundance of attack methods at their disposal, ranging from the crude to the highly sophisticated. Credential stuffing is a type of brute force cyber attack that is increasing in popularity, and this article seeks to explain why.

Why You Should Automate Compliance

Compliance policy is one of those things most employees find boring and useless. However, for employers, staying compliant is one of the most crucial tasks and can have serious legal and financial repercussions if not done properly. But how can you make following compliance policy easier for your employees?

A Physical Metaphor for Quick Fixes and Root Cause Analysis

If you deal with legacy code you’ve likely found yourself struggling to debug and fix a mysterious, intermittent problem. Along the way you may have discovered some code that didn’t quite make sense.

Risk Project Management Schedule Risk Analysis

Building schedules for complex projects is challenging. While the results are never perfect, credible schedules are a useful communication and coordination device. Incredible schedules are a dangerous waste of time and energy that damage a project manager’s credibility and cost an enterprise a fortune.

Software engineer looking at her computer monitors and integrating code Code Integration: When Moving Slowly Actually Has More RiskMany decisions about code branching models are made in the name of managing risk, and teams sometimes pick models that make integration harder in the name of safety. Moving slowly and placing barriers to change can seem safer, but agile teams work best when they acknowledge that there is also risk in deferring change.