TEAM Zarate Tarrani Notes From the Field

Arcady Novosyolov's risk theory web site is an excellent resource for those of us who need to brush up on probability as well as for advanced risk management practitioners in a number of professional disciplines. The focus of the site is financial risk management, but the content is applicable to risk management in general. Among the highlights are: basics and an introduction to risk theory (including lectures), a comprenehsive glossary of terms that also contain formulae, a handbook of distributions and links to other risk management resources.

The following books are my favorites on the software risk management: Managing Risk: Methods for Software Systems Development, Software Engineering Risk Management and Risk Management Processes for Software Engineering Models. If you're looking for an introductory book on project risk I recommend Project & Program Risk Management: A Guide to Managing Project Risks and Opportunities, which covers the basics well.

Harshal Laddha who is a good friend at Thinking Minds's India office shared another outstanding resource: Sridhar Iyer's IIT web page Mr. Iyer is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology. His page contains a wealth of information for anyone who works with network technologies.

The presentations, tutorials and papers on this page span wireless and fixed networking technologies, with an emphasis on WAP, M-Commerce and mobile computing. There are also presentations and papers on internet technologies, including tutorials on TCP/IP, routing, network security and other topics. You'll have to dig through the material carefully because some of the links lead to other topic areas that point to yet more material. I spent an hour going through the page and associated links and was thoroughly impressed with the quality of information and the large number of valuable resources.