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Software Project Management

Notes
Figure 10.8

Self Assessment

7. The results can not give managers an indication of whether they will have enough personnel
for a project or whether they will have to start looking for new team members. True/
False
8. A program that does not have enough experienced personnel or that tries to bring too
many into the project toward the end of the schedule is a project that is at risk. True/False

9. The metrics programs also offer …………......... into those areas that were identified as
potential risk items in the early planning stage.
10. The number of ………….......… losses is nominal and does not seem to indicate any problems
or risks.

10.8 Categories of Risk

Are you developing any Test plan or test strategy for your project? Have you addressed all risks
properly in your test plan or test strategy?
As testing is the last part of the project, it’s always under pressure and time constraint. To save
time and money you should be able to prioritize your testing work. How will prioritize testing
work? For this you should be able to judge more important and less important testing work.
How will you decide which work is more or less important? Here comes need of risk-based
testing.
“Risk are future uncertain events with a probability of occurrence and a potential for loss”.
Risk identification and management are the main concerns in every software project. Effective
analysis of software risks will help to effective planning and assignments of work.

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