---
title: "Risk Management"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/29/risk-management.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/29/risk-management.html"
published: "2003-12-29T14:56:00"
updated: "2003-12-29T14:56:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Cool Articles"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Darrel points to the MSF Risk Management Discipline . Indeed, this is something I believe to be very important, however, I did not put my money where my mouth is, and although I've read about it , I never got the chance…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Risk Management

By Roy Osherove December 29, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

**Historical article** · Originally published December 29, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[Darrel](http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton) [points](http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton/posts/4984.aspx) to the [MSF Risk Management Discipline](http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itsolutions/tandp/innsol/msfrl/msrmd11.asp). Indeed, this is something I believe to be very important, however, I did not put my money where my mouth is, and although I've [read about it](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556159005/iserializable-20), I never got the chance to actually practice it. Ah, live and learn. I'll be reading this in the next couple of days, but I've already learned to trust that what [Darrel](http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton) recommends is probably, well... recommended.

## More in .Net Quotations

[All posts in .Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

- Jan 3, 2004

    ### [Some cool links](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/3/some-cool-links.html)

- Dec 31, 2003

    ### [Jan does cool stuff: nice article and cool extension to the winform data grid](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/31/jan-does-cool-stuff-nice-article-and-cool-extension-to-the-w.html)

- Dec 28, 2003

    ### [more SQL optimization resources and a bonus tip](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/28/more-sql-optimization-resources-and-a-bonus-tip.html)

- Dec 27, 2003

    ### [New year's Nant, pathetic geek style](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/27/new-years-nant-pathetic-geek-style.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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