Managing Risk: Methods for Software Systems Development

Part I Risk Management Discovery

I am used to thinking three or four months in advance about what I must do, and I calculate on the worst. If I take so many precautions it is because it is my custom to leave nothing to chance.

—Napoleon I, in a conversation with Marshall Murat, March 14, 1808

Part I establishes the context for understanding risk as an important part of how we think and how you can develop the ability to manage software systems risk.

Chapter 1, “Software Risk Management,” defines software risk management and describes the need for it in the software community. It then presents a six-discipline model that integrates risk into the way we think. Read Chapter 1 to understand the essence of software risk management.

Chapter 2, “P ...