Software Risk Management
Live, Online Course
From the Software Excellence Academy Powered by The Westfall Team
* Our All-Access Membership includes this course
Target Audience
Software project, program and product managers, functional managers, developers, testers, quality engineers and other software project stakeholders who will be involved in identifying and analyzing risks, creating and implementing risk management plans and tracking risks.
Method of Instruction
This course is taught through lecture and interactive discussion. Actual examples from the software industry are utilized to make the information relevant. Throughout this course, learned skills are practiced using team exercises. The emphasis of this course is on techniques that allow the attendees to transition the skills learned in this course to their own work environments.
Course Workbook
This course has a downloadable course workbook designed to provide reference materials that can be utilized long after completing the course. This workbook includes:
- Copies of all presentation materials with annotated notes
- A bibliography of reference materials
- An index and glossary of software risk management terminology used in the course
Course Description
This Software Risk Management course is designed to provide a knowledge base and practical skills for anyone interested in implementing or improving Software Risk Management techniques and practices in their organization.
This course starts with an overview of risk management basics. You will learn the:
- Defintions of risk management terminology
- The importance of software risk management
- Different types of software risks
- Steps in the risk management
Course attendees will learn how to utilize various techniques for identifying and communicating software risk.
Attendees will learn to analyze their identified risks through exploring the risk’s context, estimating risk probabilities and losses, calculating risk exposure, and considering the risk timeframe.
Attendees will explore various risk handling techniques and learn how to define risk containment and contingency plans.
The implementation of risk handling actions will be discussed.
This course will explore the use of various types of reviews and metrics to track software risks.
The course ends with an overview of critical success factors and barriers to implementing a software risk management program and a discussion of risk management principles.
Enrolling
This is a live, online course. The registration cost for this course is $495 per student.
If your organization has 3 or more students to register, you can receive a $50 discount off each registration. Larger discounts are also available for 10 or more students from the same organization.
Call 972-867-1172 or email [email protected] for an organizational discount code.
For more information about bringing any of our courses onsite to you organization:
Send an email to: [email protected]
Or call: 972-867-1172
