What is the best way to analyze a project's risk?
Is there a fool-proof way to pull out all the risks involved in a project? And does it differ depending on the type of projects your working on (ie: website, client/server...)? ...
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Do you risk analyse your projects?
Do you use risk analyse methods when starting new projects? I love when fresh ppl start working at the company, they have so much theory they learn and want to implement when they start to work. Risk analysing, project management, coding standards, documentation standards and so on. (Then the reality hits them, most customers will not p...
Test what you fly, fly what you test. [NASA Principle]
Hi, I just stumbled on a principle I can't understand. Does "Test what you fly, fly what you test" mean that you should develop and test for the real thing all the time? Thinking about this, make me wonder Should we prepare for production conditions in advance? Should we launch the system on day one? (may be not inform end users) ...
Daily risk estimation for your team
Assume that you leads team of 4 developers. How often would you estimate the risk of the project? What do you think about the daily estimation? Do you think that the daily updates of the potencial problems (based on the morning stand-up meetings with the team) released as a short summary e-mail is good idea? Maybe you would consider an a...
What kind of software risk / threat analysis tools or books are available?
The situation: I work for a manufacturing company which uses several pieces of in-house software to mass customize our product. The system uses a home grown .NET 1.1 KBE (knowledge based engineering) backend, a .NET 2.0 web interface for quoting and ordering, and a DOS based tool from the late 80s/early 90s for creating AutoCAD drawings...
Why/when are session writes vulnerable to thread termination?
THE CODE: Session["foo"] = "bar"; Response.Redirect("foo.aspx"); THE PROBLEM: When foo.aspx reads "foo" from the session, it's not there. The session is there, but there's no value for "foo". I've observed this intermittently in our production environment. But I don't mean here to ask a question about Response.Redirect(). THE E...
Cosmic Rays: what is the probability they will affect a program?
Once again I was in a design review, and encountered the claim that the probability of a particular scenario was "less than the risk of cosmic rays" affecting the program, and it occurred to me that I didn't have the faintest idea what that probability is. "Since 1/2^128 is 1 out of 340282366920938463463374607431768211456, I think we...
Rails Modeling: Trying to sort out proper associations for Risk Assessment system
I am trying to implement Rails as a Asset Management/Risk Assessment system. I have been trying to work out the best way to model this. A picture of what I am thinking right now. I would like to automate as much of the treating process as possible. Ideally, someone would fill in the information for a new asset, and rails would fill...
Risk evaluation for framework selection
I'm planning on starting a new project, and am evaluating various web frameworks. There is one that I'm seriously considering, but I worry about its lasting power. When choosing a web framework, what should I look for when deciding what to go with? Here's what I have noticed with the framework I'm looking at: Small community. There...