Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

Index

Acceptance testing, 63, 124, 132

Accountability, 147, 153, 154, 159

for cost, 149, 155

of stakeholders, 156

Austin, Rob, 154

Automated Baggage Handling System (ABHS), 22-23, 25-28, 70, 184

Benefit, 63, 64, 109, 146ff., 151, 152-53, 154, 161, 162

calculation, 149

expected, 149, 152, 153

quantification, 147, 148

realization, 146, 148, 154

risk and, 9, 63, 137, 160

Boehm, Barry W., 119, 150, 158, 190

Brainstorming, 18, 116

Budget, 5, 135, 147, 155, 165

constraints, 159

reserve, 69, 70-71

time, 102, 147

Can-do, 13, 16, 31, 40, 61-62, 114-26, 171

Can’t-do, 13, 31, 115

Capability Maturity Model (CMM), 15, 23

Catastrophe, 115, 118

brainstorming, 116

list, 45

Causal risks, 16, 86, 87, 172

Charette, Robert, 12, 183, 184, 185

Client, 30, 33, 39