Software Risk Louis A. Poulin GRafP Technologies Inc. This article describes the application of hazard evaluation and prevention to software risk management.
Most risks arise from dealing with change.
Any change translates into a loss or an opportunity, each requiring a decision that in turn will generate more changes, as shown in Figure 1. Assume that five changes can occur along each axis over a given period of time. Each change offers either a loss or an opportunity. Given that at times several changes may occur over a period of one day, this is not an easy task, as depicted in Figure 2, which includes only one change per axis. Napoleon Bonaparte s statement to the effect that all he wanted from his generals was that they be lucky, is therefore not entirely surprising.