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Following up on Antony Marcano's post about Risk Management strategies. I've noticed that many teams abandon Risk Management when they adopt Agile. Instead, they rely on agile practices alone to help them reduce the impact of risks. In my view, this is not enough. Many Agile plans are too optimistic and contain no contingency. New requirements are sure to come up and the team is bound to have overlooked some of the technical challenges. Packing a plan tightly at the start without any slack leads to disappointment all round for customers and developers. Finding out about issues as they come...
Posted: 2009-06-21 15:27:37 |
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