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Top Ten Project Risks with Countermeasures

Are you working on a software development project?

Here’s the list of the top 10 project risks with countermeasures.

Personnel

  • Use Top Talent
  • Team building
  • Training

Unrealistic Schedules and Budgets

  • Project Charter
  • Scope Management
  • Work Breakdown
  • Work Package Sizing
  • Quality Controls
  • Use Top Talent

Developing the Wrong Software Functions

  • Design Documentation
  • Requirements Definition Documentation
  • Requirements Management
  • Design Reviews
  • Prototypes
  • Scenarios
  • Task Analysis
  • Testing against Requirements Definition Documentation

Developing the Wrong User Interface

  • Design Documentation
  • Requirements Definition Documentation
  • Requirements Management
  • Design Reviews
  • Prototypes
  • Scenarios
  • Task Analysis
  • Testing Against Requirements Definition Documentation

Gold Plating

  • Requirements Management
  • Requirements Definition Documentation
  • Scope Control
  • Change Management
  • Team training

On-going Requirements Change Requests

  • Change Management
  • Requirements Management
  • Requirements Definition Documentation
  • Incremental development

Poor Quality Externally Furnished Components

  • Requirements Management
  • Requirements Definition Documentation
  • Benchmarks
  • Inspections
  • Quality Controls
  • Requirements Compliance Testing
  • Compatibility Analysis

Poorly Performed External Tasks

  • Requirements Management
  • Requirements Definition Documentation
  • Vendor Management
  • Benchmarks
  • Quality controls
  • Requirements Compliance Testing
  • Competitive designs

Real-time Performance Deficiencies

  • Targeted Analysis
  • Load Testing
  • Simulations
  • Benchmarks
  • Models

Strained IT Capabilities

Technical Analysis
GAP Analysis
Performance Testing
Load Testing
Vendor Solutions