Foreword: Running Toward Risk
Running away from risk is a no-win strategy. Unless your organization has been sound asleep for the past 30 years, all the relatively risk-free opportunities have long since been exploited. The remaining high-opportunity areas are rife with risk. It is in these areas and these alone where you need to focus your attentions, skills, and resources.
Consider, for example, projects that implemented the first Web-based stock trading systems: E*TRADE, e.Schwab, and Fidelity’s Web Xpress. These endeavors forced their respective teams into previously uncharted waters. They had to come to grips with Java and PERL, secure sockets, 128-bit encryption, CGI scripts and server-side technology, multiplatform support, help desks, ...
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