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Little Red Book of Development Risks and Consequences

by Michael Raftus & Louis Poulin

201 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-3096; ISBN 1-4251-1337-0; US$39.09, C$44.95, EUR32.11, £22.48

Do you want to become a successful Project or Development Manager? This book contains the answers. 151.5 Real World Risks and Consequences that Make Sense and Make you Risk Savvy.

About the Book

If there is one sure thing in a development project, it is that things will not go as planned and that there will be problems! The catch is that which problems will come up is unknown, as well as when or where they will come up.

This book identifies One Hundred and Fifty One point Five (151.5) real world risks pertaining to software, hardware, and systems development, along with an elaboration of their consequences. Risks associated with Requirements, Design, Build and Test, the Development Environment, the Development Framework, Management, Personnel, and External Constraints are tackled.

A set of questions that can be used to draw out each risk is also provided. Whether you want to create a risk questionnaire or conduct an interview to extract risks, this book has all you need.

About the Authors

Michael P. Raftus
Mr. Raftus is President of GRafP Technologies. Mr. Raftus holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering and brings with him over 22 years of systems engineering, project engineering and process improvement experience having worked for several organizations serving the aerospace and defense industries. He is an instructor on risk management and process improvement and has accumulated over 12 years of experience in conducting assessments and in helping organizations develop action plans to jump-start their process improvement programs. Mr. Raftus has participated in over 60 assessments in the US, Canada, Europe and South America, both in private industry and in the public sector. Clients have included government departments, commercial banks, financial services institutions, information services organizations, defense agencies as well as aerospace and transportation companies.

Louis A. Poulin
Mr. Poulin is Chief Technology Officer of GRafP Technologies Inc. where he has been involved in assessing the capability of software development organizations and in developing risk assessment methodologies and risk management applications. He holds a Bachelor degree in Engineering Physics, a certificate in Naval Engineering and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering. He has over 25 years experience in the military, industrial and public sectors where he held various management positions. Over the past few years, Mr. Poulin has been involved in risk modeling and probabilistic risk assessment in human-intensive initiatives, where the use of traditional risk management techniques is limited. Prior to his active involvement in software engineering, Mr. Poulin served in the Canadian Navy as a Combat Systems Engineering Officer. He is a member of IEEE and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.