Identifying risks
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In this lesson
find risks across technical, dependency, people, and schedule categories.
Planned topics
- Technical: unproven technology, data quality, performance at scale.
- Dependency: another team's API, vendor contract, shared environment.
- People: key-person dependency, availability, skill gaps.
- Schedule: estimates with no slack, fixed external dates, long lead items.
- Methods: pre-mortem ("it failed, why?"), walk the dependency map, ask each team lead for their top three worries.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
A pre-mortem prompt and a sample of outputs for the FulfillCo program: legacy data quality, one expert on the warehouse system, a security review queue.
Check your understanding
What does a pre-mortem ask?
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Imagine the program failed; what caused it?
Practice
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