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A prophets of doom workshop

James King

In the past I have used some pretty dodgy approaches to defining risks in a project, from formal approaches like fault tree analysis through to informal approaches like “the evil genius” and “an international standard for being scared“.

So this article is not really a new one.  It is more a combination of evil geniuses and international standards for being scared.  But I think this workshop should work well when starting any project and particularly small projects with a simple project charter.

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Unusual risk analysis techniques

James King

I think risk management is really cool … and certainly more fun than the alternative.

Unfortunately many people find the traditional approaches to analysing risks dry and un-innovative; which is a problem because identification and analysis of risk is actually a creative process.

So here are a couple of “unusual” approaches that might work for your team.  Continue reading “Unusual risk analysis techniques”