Risk Management Workshop
 
SECC in collaboration with Motorola had a training workshop on Risk Managment ,The workshop had been delivered by Jim Brodie and John F. Pelligrin during the period from April 27 to April 28, 2004 at Smart Village.
 
Workshop Overview
 
  • In order to successfully manage an enterprise, an organization, or a project, it is necessary to be able to manage the many risks that may have potentially harmful affects. The technology of risk management has evolved over the last decades to include a variety of approaches to identifying, classifying, tracking, and mitigating these potential problems, and to minimize their harmful affects. On the other hand, not all risks can or should be avoided. If too much time and effort is spent avoiding risks, the enterprise may not be sufficiently competitive to succeed in their marketplace. So choosing the risks you will address becomes critical as well.
  • This workshop provided a survey of the risk management technology and the major approaches that have been developed within the software engineering field. Much of the work has emerged out of programs at the US Software Engineering Institute (SEI), along with many other important authors that have contributed significantly to this technology. Some of the major concepts and frameworks for risk management will be explored in the workshop and exercises used to guide the participants to apply the concepts in their current situation.
 
Topics covered
  The workshop consisted of the following topics:
  • Basic concepts of risk management
  • Framework for risk management.
  • Risk taxonomies.
  • Risk management within maturity models.
  • Risk patterns.
  • Selection of develop life cycle models based on risk patters.
  • Risk management in Agile methods.
  • Risk management in project planning.
  • Contingency planning.
  • System approach to risk management.
  • Technologies and tools for risk management.
  • Strategic risk management at the enterprise level.
  • Practical approaches to risk management.
 
Audience
 
  • Enterprise executives.
  • Organization managers.
  • Project leaders.
  • Key technical leaders.
 
Instructors Short Bio
  Jim Brodie :
  • JIM BRODIE is a senior member of the Motorola Global Software Group, Performance Excellence team, located in Phoenix, Arizona. He has over 25 years of experience in software engineering. During his approximately 20 years with Motorola, Jim has held software development positions including software developer, project leader, and chief software architect. During this period, Jim convened the ANSI C Programming language standards committee and served as the committee Chairperson for 10 years. He also wrote 3 books and numerous articles on the C language. During the past 10 years, Jim has focused primarily on managing and leading efforts to improve engineering and business processes. Jim was a SEI-certified Software CMM Lead Assessor and has led about a dozen CMM assessments. Jim served as the Motorola Software Quality Council chairperson for over 2 years. He is a recognized Six Sigma Greenbelt and has extensive experience in the area of metrics and organizational change. Jim has also served as the manager of a Performance Excellence team that provides business process, Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence, Balanced Scorecard, and organizational change support. Jim received his Bachelor of Science in Psychology and his Master of Arts in Computer Science, both from Arizona State University. He can be reached by email at Jim.Brodie@motorola.com.
 John F.Pelligrin :
  • JOHN F. PELLEGRIN is a Member of Technical Staff in the Motorola Global Software Group, Schaumburg, IL, where he manages the Software Process Improvement Consulting group. He has over 30 years of experience in software engineering. Since joining Motorola's corporate organization, John has participated in critical initiatives related to software quality, process, metrics, estimation, international software standards, organization assessments, testing technologies, and the establishment of new software development centers. For 7 years, John represented Motorola at the Software Engineering Institute, and managed the deployment of organization self-assessments across Motorola during that period. He was certified by the SEI as a CBA-IPI Lead Assessor, and has lead and participated in numerous SEI CMM assessments. He was a member and chairperson of the CMM Advisory Board at the SEI. For more than 8 years he has represented Motorola on software standards committees, including the IEEE 1074 working group and the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 international software standards committee. Prior to joining Motorola in 1990, he held research and development positions at Bell Telephone Laboratories. He received his B.A. in mathematics from Occidental College, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Arizona State University. He can be reached by email at John.Pellegrin@motorola.com.
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