Skip to content
  • Home
  • Current Page Parent Articles
  • Videos
  • Tools
  • Resources
  • Contact
  • About

Project Management for Software Development

Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban

  • Home
  • Current Page Parent Articles
  • Videos
  • Tools
  • Resources
  • Software Development Project Management Articles

Elephants in the Room: 7 Reasons why Project Risks are Ignored

by Project Management Planet · January 31, 2011

Using the metaphor of the elephant, Kailash Awati explains the reasons why project managers don’t want to recognize known risks.

  • share 
  • share 
  • share 
  • share 
  • share 

Tags: risk management

You may also like...

  • Minimizing Risks When Launching a Product

    February 21, 2014

  • Cox’s risk matrix theorem and its implications for project risk management

    January 5, 2010

  • Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams

    Book Review: Managing the Unmanageable

    February 12, 2024

Search

Share this Knowledge

Keywords

agile budget business analysis change cloud software development communication database Devops distributed teams documentation estimating EVM failure kanban leadership lean metrics people planning PMI portfolio prioritization programming project portfolio requirements risk management scaling scrum software architecture software process software testing stakeholders team tracking value

Last Comments

  • Aarav Patel on Post-Mortem: “Bones” for Dead Software Projects
  • Joseph Pidgeon on Why is MongoDB a Good NoSQL Implementation for Software Projects?
  • Sterling Bolton on Why is MongoDB a Good NoSQL Implementation for Software Projects?
  • Owen on How to Communicate Technical Ideas to Non Technical Audiences
  • Dmitry on Free and Open Source Project Management Tools

Recent content

  • Killing Softly Your Software Development Project Team With…
  • Commercial & Free Online Gantt Charts Editors
  • Build Better Software Faster with Modern Software Engineering
  • The Role of Business Analysts in Agile Software Development
  • Reviewing Software Requirements for Testability

Keywords

agile budget business analysis change cloud software development communication database Devops distributed teams documentation estimating EVM failure kanban leadership lean metrics people planning PMI portfolio prioritization programming project portfolio requirements risk management scaling scrum software architecture software process software testing stakeholders team tracking value

More information

  • Contact
  • About

Project Management Knowledge

  • Methods & Tools Software Development Magazine
  • Scrum Expert
  • Free & Open Source Project Management Tools
  • Home
  • Current Page Parent Articles
  • Videos
  • Tools
  • Resources

Copyright © 2009-2026 Martinig & Associates

Powered by WordPress. Theme by Alx.