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Published inSep 2023
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Morgan Evans
Morgan Evans
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Morgan Evans

Morgan Evans has been leading web and native app engineering teams since 2010. Having held senior engineering leadership roles at complex media and technology organizations, the author knows first hand how to lead challenging projects at high scale with demanding stakeholders and vocal customers. Evans has an educational background in social psychology and information architecture, lending a unique perspective to the book. She has been working on development teams delivering consumer and b2b digital products for 18 years.
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How do you manage risks?

Managing risk is a continuous process. Once you develop an awareness of risk, it is something that you will manage every day. Since risks can be so impactful to businesses and teams, it is good to take a rigorous approach to managing them. Take control of risks by identifying them, prioritizing, communicating, and responding.

Identifying risks

Identifying risks, or risk recognition, is the most important step of risk management. Even if you were to stop here, the act of recognizing a threat removes the surprise from it and allows you to have it in mind as you go about your work.

Risks that you identify may not always make sense to further manage. Some risks, such as natural disasters or global events, you may take note of as threats but are not necessarily worth specific mitigation. At this stage, you focus on recognizing and cataloging only, starting with common risks in software engineering.

Examples of common risks

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Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803235356

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Morgan Evans

Morgan Evans has been leading web and native app engineering teams since 2010. Having held senior engineering leadership roles at complex media and technology organizations, the author knows first hand how to lead challenging projects at high scale with demanding stakeholders and vocal customers. Evans has an educational background in social psychology and information architecture, lending a unique perspective to the book. She has been working on development teams delivering consumer and b2b digital products for 18 years.
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