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By: Chris Matts

Chris Matts — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:34:35 +0000

This was the start of my journey into the land of Real Options. Kevin Tate of Alias Software (SGI) showed a slide at ADC2003 in Salt Lake City. The slide showed the risk profile of a Waterfall and an Agile software development.

It was an obvious risk arbitrage. Waterfall is riskier but people believe it to be safer (because IT have told them so for years). Agile is safer but names like eXtreme Programming put off the risk averse. eXtreme makes people think of eXtreme sports.

I mentioned this to a colleague (The head of credit risk). He said “Of course eXtreme sportsmen understand risk better. If they did not, they would be dead”.

The first steps on the path to Real Options.

By: Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:15:19 +0000

Quality standards have a lot of the same issues. We’ve just been through our own three-yearly renewal of our organisation’s sector-specific quality mark and the process is quite explicitly about documenting what you do and showing you do what you document – what it actually is that you do is strictly secondary – the paper is trail is all that matters.

By: JP

JP — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:42:53 +0000

Education. More later.

By: D

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:32:07 +0000

So how does one who works for a process (I would call it – fear) driven entity – move forward when agile practices mandate taking risks that can or cannot be proven or quantified.

By: JD

JD — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:57:29 +0000

As I sit here struggling with how to do a cost benefit analysis on a risk management system (which we are building using agile methods) I had to grin when I read your post. I know my CBA will be total BS and that my project managers are frustrated with my reluctance to take their waterfall style project plan serious. Being an agile risk manager is a bit like being green… it ain’t easy.

By: Ric

Ric — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:38:14 +0000

This seems similar to how a lot of businesses approached quality management – it didn’t matter if your ISO9000 documentation actually helped produce a better widget – what mattered was that you followed the documented steps and achieved certification.