Deadlines Approaching? Budgets Cut? How to Keep Your Sanity

Testing projects have a habit of dissolving into chaos—and even strife—as deadlines approach and budgets are cut. When asked to do the impossible, risk management and mitigation tools can be the only way for testers to survive. Geoff Horne presents a proven method he uses for identifying and assessing risks and the effects—both positive and negative—of various mitigation approaches. Through the school of hard knocks, Geoff has learned that the most plausible risk mitigation strategy is not always the best and may actually harm the project. Successfully used on different projects across different types of businesses, Geoff’s approach is based on evaluating risks and assessing the impacts across key criteria: resources, productivity, cost, quality, and confidence. Geoff presents risk assessments in a color-coded graphical format that enables an easy, straightforward comparison and prioritization of the mitigation strategies under consideration. Learn to maintain your sanity when you are next asked to do the impossible—one more time.