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Staging and Classifying

Staged and Classified Beetle Collection, (Credit: Fir0002, Wikipedia)

Our tour is complete.

But if we are good collectors, then before we finish we should Stage our specimens and do some work in classifying what we've seen.

Towards A "Periodic Table" Of Risks​

As we said at the start, Risk-First is all about developing A Pattern Language. We can use the terms like "Feature Fit Risk" or "Internal Model Risk" to explain phenomena we see on software projects. If we want to De-Risk our work, we need this power of explanation so we can talk about how to go about it.

Periodic Table of Risks, Horizontal

The diagram above compiles all of the risks we've seen so far on our tour across the Risk Landscape. Just like a periodic table, there are perhaps others left to discover. Unlike a periodic table, these risks are not completely distinct: they mix like paint and blend into one another.

On this journey around the Risk Landscape we've collected a (hopefully) good, representative sample of Risks and where to find them. But there are more out there. How many of these have you seen on your projects? What is missing? What is wrong?

Please help by reporting back what you find.