risk management
Making (and Keeping) Project Risk Visible Project managers recommend how much should be invested to address various risks based on their understanding of project context, but the final decision about what to do and when those efforts are sufficient belongs to the sponsor. Risk management requires executive input, so sponsors need to see all risk data you have. |
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5 SecOps Challenges and How to Overcome Them SecOps, or security operations, is a collaboration between information security and IT operations to keep a company’s data secure and reduce risk, all while maintaining agile timelines. But it can be difficult to start. Here are five challenges you should address to ensure your SecOps implementation is successful. |
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Trusting Your Data: Garbage In, Garbage Out Poor quality input will always produce faulty output. Improper validation of data input can affect more than just security; it can also affect your ability to make effective business decisions. Bad data can have impacts on how you make quantitative decisions or create reports, if you can’t trust the data you receive. |
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Security Testing and Assessing Risk: A Slack Takeover with Shachar Schiff Thought leaders from the software community are taking over the TechWell Hub to answer questions and engage in conversations. Shachar Schiff, founder and principal consultant at BadTesting, hosted this Slack takeover and discussed assessing code coverage like a risk analyst, risk assessments outside security, and more. |
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Lower Risk of Downtime by Testing with Production Traffic Teams need a means of identifying potential bugs and security concerns prior to release—with speed and precision, and without the need to roll back or stage. By simultaneously running live user traffic against the current software version and the proposed upgrade, you can detect bugs while reducing risk and downtime. |
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Take Credit for Your Risk Management Activities If you have an important implementation date, early identification of the minimum viable product is a vital risk-management step that helps focus your team’s attention on what's important. Rather than apologizing for intelligent phasing of functionality to manage risk, explain it to stakeholders and take credit. |
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What Aircrews Can Teach DevOps Teams Aircrews learn a set of skills involving a structured way of communicating that breaks down barriers and forces an honest evaluation of the issues. They also automate what they can but still practice their craft over and over again, including what to do during failures. DevOps teams can learn a lot from aircrews. |
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The Testing Practices and Metrics That Really Matter in Agile and DevOps Scaled agile and DevOps change the game for software testing. It’s not just a matter of accelerating testing; it’s also about fundamentally altering the way we measure quality. The test outcomes required to drive a fully automated release pipeline are dramatically different from the ones most teams measure today. |