An Assistance to Project Risk Management Based on Complex Systems Theory and Agile Project Management

Table 2

Illustration of the correspondence between sequence of processes/steps in PRM, CST, and APM.

Agile Project Management	Project Risk Management	Complex Systems Theory
Sprint planning part 1 (risk network analysis, 2 h)	Risk identification	Identifying risk interdependencies
	Risk assessment	Assessing risk interdependencies
	Risk analysis	Analyzing risk interdependencies and their potential consequences
Sprint planning part 2 (risk response plan, 2 h)	Risk response actions identification	Identifying action interdependencies
	Risk response actions assessment	Assessing action interdependencies
	Risk response actions analysis	Analyzing action interdependencies and their potential consequences
	Risk response plan decision	Making decisions under complex contexts
	Risk-oriented reorganization	Interdependency-based clustering
Scrum meeting (15 minutes)	Risk monitoring and control	Quick update of interdependencies, analyses, and decisions
Sprint review (1 h)	Risk monitoring and control
Sprint retrospective (less than 1 h)	Lessons learnt
	Risk management principles (update)