yegor256/awesome-risks

Sample Risks for a Software Project

This is a curated list of risks any software project may face.

This list is going to help you identify and manage risks in 0rsk online tool.

To understand the concept read this: 0rsk.com: Cause + Risk + Effect.

Categories

• 💰 Money
• 🏢 Organizations
• 💾 Software
• 📦 Data
• 🌿 Products
• 📚 Documents
• 🤵 People

Causes

• PayPal account 💰
• ACME Inc. 🏢
• Spring Framework 💾
• MySQL Database 📦
• Our mobile app 🌿
• Patent 📚
• Jeffrey Lebowski 🤵

Risks

💰 PayPal account:

• They may lock our account
• The account may be hacked
• We may run out of funds

🏢 ACME Inc.:

• They may terminate the contract
• They may require additional verification
• They may get a new management

💾 Spring Framework:

• It may have a security issue
• It may stop being supported
• It may not have required features

📦 MySQL Database:

• It may be hacked and stolen
• It may be corrupted/destroyed
• It may become too slow

🌿 Our mobile app:

• It may crash in production
• It may look bad for end-users
• It may become very popular
• It may loose its audience
• It may be taken off the market by a competitor

📚 Patent:

• It may be disputed
• It may expire

🤵 Jeffrey:

• He may quit the project
• He may get sick
• He may steal our database
• He may burn-out
• He may get lazy and stop performing

Effects

• We will loose the money
• Customer will be disappointed
• We will lose the data
• Our reputation will be ruined
• We will have to find another programmer
• We won't be able to release on-time
• We will have to re-write from scratch
• The server will be down for a long time