{"product_id":"risk-first-software-development-rob-moffat-9781717491855","title":"Risk-First Software Development: Volume 1: The Menagerie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the First Edition of \u003ci\u003eRisk-First Software Development\u003c\/i\u003e. The Second Edition is now available.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe software development world is crowded with different practices, metrics, methodologies, tools and techniques.\u003cp\u003eFor example, metrics such as \"number of open tickets\", \"code coverage\" or \"release cadence\" give us a numerical feel for how things are going, and methodologies such as Scrum, Waterfall and Lean give us different approaches to organising.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what unites them all?\u003c\/p\u003eAbout Risk-First\u003cp\u003eThe Risk-First perspective is that all of these practices and methodologies have at their heart the job of managing different risks. Risk isn't something that just appears in a report, it actually drives everything we do: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA story about improving the user login screen can be seen as reducing the risk of users not signing up.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf we write unit tests, we're tackling the risk of bugs going to production, but we're also defending against the risk of future changes breaking our existing functionality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA task about improving the health indicators could be seen as addressing the risk of the application failing and no-one reacting to it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImplementing a new function in the application is fixing the risk that users are dissatisfied and go elsewhere.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eRisk-First makes the case that better understanding the nature of these risks is critical to building software in the complex, interconnected domain we work in.\u003c\/p\u003eAbout The Menagerie: \u003cp\u003eThis book is volume one of the Risk-First series, introducing the case for viewing all of the activities on a software project as \u003ci\u003eattempting to manage risk.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt introduces the menagerie of different risks you're likely to meet on a software project, naming and classifying them so that we can try to understand them better.The book aims to develop a Pattern Language for understanding software risk, and develop a practical framework for discussing how the activities we take on a project change the balance of the risks we are exposed to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore information here: https: \/\/riskfirst.org\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rob Moffat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1717491855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781717491855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.60d","brand":"Rob Moffat","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519152009471,"sku":"9781717491855","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eb1b16ad-1972-4289-8487-35204fed8373.jpg?v=1778736945","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/risk-first-software-development-rob-moffat-9781717491855","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}