Gambling with the Devil: Taming All the Risks
summary
Presents a practical, concrete approach to risk management for QA: identify the specific context and list risks, analyze expected outcomes and costs, then plan small incremental steps and monitor via a identify→analysis→planning→control loop. Recommends five engagement levels, weekly risk checks (noting many teams use four‑week cadences), a ‘mitigate in advance’ mindset, and gives examples such as automation reducing nightly runs from three hours to two and an emergency tactic of briefly launching ten Amazon machines.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:31Ignored risks
- 7:06Risks versus opportunities
- 11:41Risk identification
- 16:17Risk analysis and impact
- 20:13Five risk levels
- 24:31Risk planning and control
- 28:50Risk communication
- 33:53Risk monitoring
- 37:14Engineer to manager
- 40:24Summary
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