Start managing your risks

We all want to be better at what we do, so we climb the stairs of maturity, but sometimes the steps don’t need to new levels of quality and productivity. What are the factors that hold us back from gaining higher and higher levels of success?

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Keys to success

I have touched on this topic numerous times on this blog. Some of the findings, and links to older blog posts where you can read more:

Maturity and risk management

Something more is often missing, holding people back from reaching their full potential. A lack of active risk management. [bibcite key=”citeulike:13798906″] This study, fresh off the press, shows the impact of proper risk management on success. The study shows “a positive effect of software process maturity level on software project performance while underscoring the negative effect of software development risk on software project performance”.

Start managing your risks

So what does this mean? Start doing proper risk management, even if only in the simplest of ways. Risk management does not need to be hard, complex or time consuming but it has been proven to be necessary for success.

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About Greger Wikstrand

Greger Wikstrand, Ph.D. M.Sc. is a TOGAF 9 certified enterprise architect with an interest in e-heatlh, m-health and all things agile as well as processes, methods and tools. Greger Wikstrand works as a consultant at Capgemini where he alternates between enterprise agile coaching, problem solving and designing large scale e-health services ...

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