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What Is & How To Create A Risk Management Plan - Emily Luijbregts, Digital Project Manager Most of us in research probably started off on fairly small and well-scoped projects where risk management wasn’t a significant factor; or the risks were well-understood enough that everyone knew how to deal with them so there wasn’t a need to separately track and manage the risks. If you get involved with larger and longer projects, though, especially ones that bring together a number of skills, it may be...
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Pre-Mortem: Working Backwards in Software Design - Seema Thapar, PayPal We haven’t talked about premortems (#12, #43) in a while. If you don’t recall, the process - sometimes part of a project kickoff - is to have a well-posed project and then to ask the team to imagine that it’s finished, and it has failed. What has gone wrong? Thapar gives us a particularly nice overview the why of premortems here, and describes how they’re run at PayPal. They start with a 1-pager describing the...
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