Agile Risks Meetup
I went to a meetup with a group of Agile practitioners discussing Agile ways of dealing with risks. It gave me lots of interesting things to think about:
- Get close to the customer, really understand their needs, to reduce the risk of building the wrong thing.
- Users who are choosers give helpful feedback because they can decide not to use the solution. If not, feedback is superficial.
- Explore possible solutions concurrently before going on to build a single solution.
- Ignore the likelihood of the risk and focus on impact.
- Communicate risks and issues sooner rather than waiting until they become big problems. Don’t pretend to be green if things are really amber.
- Deal with risks as you go along rather than identifying and only intending to deal with only if they arise.
- Risk reduction = knowledge acquisition.
- Learning about the risky things is building business value.
- Traditional risk management focuses on ‘known unknowns’, but misses the ‘unknown unknowns’.
- Unknown things often get put to bottom of the list but maybe they should be dealt first.