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Overview
A few short articles about what Risk-First is all about
Thinking Risk-First
Learning to think about software development from the perspective of risk
Risks
A pattern language for the types of risks you can face on a software project
Book: The Menagerie
Risk-First Software Development Volume 1: The Menagerie. Available to read online, on Kindle and to buy at Amazon
On Bets
Risk-First Track of articles on Bets within Software Development
On Estimating
The 'Estimating' Risk-First Track.
On Complexity
Risk-First Track of articles on Software Complexity
Presentations
Presentations given about Risk-First
Most Popular Articles
Complexity Risk
A lot of advice around constructing software comes back to simplicity. Why?
COVID, Agile, ChatOps
How COVID has come for Agile Practices, and how Chat Bots offer us a way forwards.
Fixing Scrum
Part of the 'Estimating' Risk-First Track, looking at the essential flaws in Scrums' time-boxing of work.
The Agile Onion
Light-hearted presentation for Deutsche Bank on Risk First and Agile, June 2019.
Post-Agile
Examination of the Post-Agile Movement
One Size Fits No-One
There can't be a perfect software methodology. Here's why.
Encouragement
Encouraging feedback for Risk-First
Recent Articles
Agile vs Open Source
Talk given to Simply Business about Risk-First and Open Source
All Work Is Risk Management
The origins and justification for Risk-First as a concept.
On Story Points
Part of the 'Estimating' Risk-First Track, about improving estimates using risk checklists.
Risk-First Analysis
Part of the 'Estimating' Risk-First Track, looking at an alternative to Scrum's Planning Poker
A Short History Of Feedback
How the concept of feedback returns and returns over 400 years, and how every time it's a "reinvention".
How to Win
If development is a game, how do I win? How to apply Risk Management to development tasks to win the "meta-game".
COVID, Agile, ChatOps
How COVID has come for Agile Practices, and how Chat Bots offer us a way forwards.
All In On Open Source
Talk given to Colchester Digital about Open Source
Betting On RPA
Looking at varieties of RPA as an escape from Information System incompatibility.
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