The Myth of Risk Management

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Insure Your Project Against the Unknown and the Unknowable
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2008-05
Article Summary: 

Risk management is an illusion. We must recognize that software projects are inherently risky and admit to ourselves that it's not the known problems that are going to cause our projects to fail. It's the risks that are unmentionable, uncontrollable, unquantifiable, or unknown that make projects crash and burn.