Software Special Interest Group Meeting  

Risk Management 102

by: Mike Helton

Tuesday July 23, 2013

 This talk begins with a brief review of the Risk Management Process in conjunction with a previous talk on February 26, 2013 by Al Florence who covered the basics of Risk Management.  Some follow-on ingredients in doing effective Risk Management are presented including the following:

� Key preparations for doing effective Risk Management in any project.

� Brief guidelines for identifying the right risks in any project.

� Skills needed to do successful Risk Management.

� Proportionalizing Risk Management.

� A Success Story using Risk Management.

� Risks of doing Risk Management.

� Other items that would be of interest (Risk vs. Opportunity Management)

 

Mike Helton is a senior Risk Management consultant and has practiced Risk Management for over 17 years on very large to very small programs and projects.  These included the Air Traffic Control DSR Program, an NSA Process Improvement Program, and many smaller group projects within larger programs, such as various groups within NASA�s Landsat Program.  He was the instructor for the Risk Management Process for the National Security Administration where he trained over 350 NSA professionals on Risk Management.  This included tailoring aspects of industry standard risk management processes documented by the PMBOK, SEI Carnegie Mellon Institute, and several other sources of risk management to fit various kinds of programs and projects.  His prior endeavors included integration manager on a key stage of the NASA�s International Space Station, integration manager on a commercial satellite communications system for the American Satellite Company, and mission & science sequence design engineer on various interplanetary space missions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

6:30 PM � Networking and Pizza(*)

7:00 � 8:00 PM � Program

(*) There is no cost to attend at McLean and Silver Spring.

Locations:

The presentation will originate at the McLean facility, with video tele-conferencing (VTC) between:

If you can host another location via VTC, please contact Scott Ankrum (below)

 

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For details and driving directions, see: July 2013 Software SIG Announcement

Registration:

Registration Website: https://asq509.org/ht/d/DoSurvey/i/26913

 

You must register by noon on Monday, July 22.  If you cannot attend at any location, select telephone dial-in when you register.  FDA (Silver Spring) cannot host non-citizen visitors.  If not a US citizen, please provide your title, employer, and address.  Allow 2 business days for registration before the meeting.

 

 

Software SIG Chairman: T. Scott Ankrum (ASQ & IEEE)

Software SIG Committee: Tom Neff, Roger Hardwicke, James L. de la Houssaye, Manny Castillo, Salwa M Abdul-Rauf, Richard Eng, Rhonda L. Farrell, Alfred Kromholz, James M. Simpson, Chris Jones, Lance Kelson,  Meg Weinberg, Tom Everett, Tim Rice, Aaron Dagen

 

Sponsored Jointly By: The American Society for Quality (ASQ), Washington DC & Maryland Metro Section (509), Software Special Interest Group (SSIG); IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC & Northern Virginia Chapters; and Society for Software Quality (SSQ), Washington, DC Area Chapter.  Members of the ASQ SSIG include software quality professionals, software engineers, and others interested in applying quality principles to the field of software development.  See our web page: https://asq509.org/ht/d/sp/i/2499/pid/2499.  We meet every month, usually at the MITRE facility in McLean, Virginia, with VTC to other locations.

 

	Next Month:  TBD on Tuesday, August 27, 2013