Agile and Risk Management

February 10, 2009

A common debate among agilistas is how to handle risk management in agile development processes. In a brief discussion over at InfoQ (http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/agile-risk-management), a few folks from the community weigh in. If you’re new to this conversation, it’ll get you up to speed very quickly.

From my point of view, I agree with Mike Cottmeyer’s assessment that agile builds risk management into every step of the process. In fact, it would seem that agile—an approach to development that attempts to respond to emerging conditions as quickly as possible—was designed for the sole purpose of improving risk mitigation. After all, when a team can see a problem and swarm to resolve it immediately, that’s identifying a risk and cutting it out of the equation. So if your team is working incrementally and iteratively, meeting daily to discuss progress and impediments, and frequently soliciting feedback from the customer (and it should be, if you’re calling what you do ‘agile’), then it’s practicing project management that is hyper-focused on risk mitigation.

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