Software Risk Management

Software Risk Management

This on-demand, web-based  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 software risk management basics, including definitions of risk management terminology, a discussion of the importance of software risk management and different types of software risks and the introduction of the software risk management process.

This course:

• Explores various risk handling techniques and learn how to define risk containment and contingency plans
• Discusses the implementation of risk handling actions
• Explores the use of various types of reviews and metrics to track software risks

This course includes:

• Practice using team exercises that relate the learned techniques to the attendees own software development projects
• Practice utilizing analysis information to prioritize their lists of identified 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.

Course attendees will learn:

• How to utilize various techniques for identifying and communicating software risk.
• To analyze their identified risks through:
  • exploring the risk’s context
  • estimating risk probabilities and losses
  • calculating risk exposure
  • considering the risk timeframe

Course objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course attendees will be able to:

• Understand the basic of Software Risk Management
• Identify software risks to the success of your software projects and products
• Analyze and prioritize software risks
• Create a software risk management plan
• Implement software risk management plans and track the status of your risks
• Implement a software risk management program for your organization

For more information about bringing any of our courses onsite to you organization:
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