How Do You Integrate Risk Management Into Programmer Jobs?
Project managers (PMs) are responsible for risk planning and risk management usually through the vehicle of a project schedule. The information used to build a realistic schedule with integrated risk management and to assess progress must come from the programmers and developers. Programmers assist in integrated risk management by providing experience-based data on the complexity and resource requirements needed to accomplish project tasks and by honest communication with project managers about status, plans, and issues. Understand the requirements. What the customer wants built and what the organization agrees to provide drive the project schedule. It is essential to understand what the customer means by requirements such as, “easy to use” or “integrated with existing data” in terms that drive the amount of code programmers need to write. Break general requirements down into small tasks that work together to meet the requirement. Sometimes called the work breakdown structure, the proc
