21 Stage 3: Prevention
If you do not actively attack the risks, they will actively attack you.
—Tom Gilb
In this chapter, I describe the practices that characterize the prevention stage of risk management evolution. Prevention is a transitional stage, when the risk management approach changes from reactive avoidance of risk symptoms to proactive elimination of the root cause of risk. Individuals on the project team are aware of basic risk concepts, and most of them have experience in risk assessment. They have already learned a valuable lesson: assessed risks will be realized unless action is taken to prevent them. Through this insight comes the realization that what we do not know will hurt us. Most people are comfortable identifying risks ...
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