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Risk Management in Software Projects: Pre-Mortem, Risk Register, Probability × Impact and Retiring Risk Early

Managing risk means surfacing it early with a pre-mortem, comparing probability × impact with the buffer and putting the riskiest work at the start of the plan. In Bookstore's Institutional Orders register, total exposure is 21.6 days, more than the scope buffer; an ERP spike and pair work bring it down to 4.9 days in three sprints. We cover ROAM, risk burndown and risk vs issue with C# code.