February 23rd, 2018

Risk: You’re Managing it Wrong!

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Cloud Solution Architects

The following post about managing risks in modern software development is from Premier Developer consultant, Assaf Stone.


No offense, but despite your best intentions, you might not be handling risk properly. In this day and age, everything is software-dependent; even if you do not consider yourself a “software-firm” per-se, even if you are just running a small development team that develops in-house software, your business still depends on said software to run smoothly, and any outages cost money. The bigger the problem, the greater the cost. If you, like many other modern software-based organizations, try to reduce risk by taking every precaution to avoid the occurrence of failures, then I am talking to you. If you are (still) following the waterfall methodology (why would you do that???), then I am definitely talking to you.

In this blog post I will explain what is fundamentally wrong with the waterfall way of addressing risk, why you should resist the temptation to avoid failure, and what you should be doing instead, in order to truly reduce risk that is inherent to delivering software.

You can read more on Assaf’s post here.

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