- paraphrased from Alec Baldwin's commencement speech at New York University, May 12, 2010
Why do projects start with a plan, requirements, resources, and all the soft skills stuff? Why don't projects start with a list of risks and mitigation or retirement plans?
If we want to look for sources of failure in projects, look to how they start.
Risk Management is how Adults manage projects - Tim Lister
The management of projects of course includes what ever list of activities you choose. A pretty good list can be found in PMBOK of course. There are likely better ones focused on specific domains. Since PMBOK is not a method, the order of the list does not reflect the priority of the activities toward the success of the project.
Risk Management is down in the list in PMBOK. Moving it to the top and performing "Continuous Risk Management," in the manner described by the Software Engineering Institute's method of the same name, increases the probability of success for your project.
