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Risk Factors in Software Development
Risk Types
Requirements Risk
- Do we fully understand the requirements ?
- Are the requirements fully documented ?
Skills Risk
- Do we have the skills in house?
- Can we train the skills
- Can we recruit the skills ?
- Are the skills common and mundane or rare and unusual ?
Technology Risk
- We've used the technology before and know it works
- It is well regard industry wide and well know & respected, it is mature
- Technology is imature, i.e. V1.0
- Technology is bespoke
- Technology is pre-release, pre-standard, untested. Does the technology work.
Political Risk
- Expectations
- Cancellation
- Economic
Risk Levels
- High Risk
- Medium
- Low Risk
