Any effort to revive it at that point will likely be wasted for that project. Involve all project employees in risk management. Reward those who identify and communicate issues and concerns. Although outside consultants can share vision and insights based on similar projects, program employees are more vitally concerned and have more specific knowledge about what needs to be done to be ultimately successful. Provide visible and continual sponsorship.
Few people improve for improvement's sake.
If the ultimate benefit is not clear to all, more immediate incentives must be applied. We continue to investigate and collect best practices and expand our knowledge of risk management. We are accomplishing further refinements in measuring costs and benefits, the use of metrics, and the application of risk management in pre-contract award phases. Additional lessons that are learned will be communicated and used to refine our knowledge of what is the best in risk management performed by the software community. Audrey J. Dorofee is a senior member of the technical staff in the SEI risk program, where she leads the development of continuous risk management methods and tools.