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This is excellent advice and widely applicable. I'm definitely stealing "Managing your risk budget". That said, I find it important to also consider where risk
by uniqueuid 5y ago
This is excellent advice and widely applicable. I'm definitely stealing "Managing your risk budget".
That said, I find it important to also consider where risk implies inevitable failure. You need not only manage your risk budget, but also your failure budget. Let me explain:
Risk is a collective concept. Individuals anticipate risk, but see realized success and failure. Collectives see realized rates of success. In that sense, if there is any risk, there is bound to be some failure. Failure is not always negative, it also generates knowledge! This is essential to avoid future risks.
How do we handle this?
- Normalize talking about failure. Document failure.
- Don't stigmatize individuals for bearing risk and failure that is necessary to the organization.
- Create support structures that enable individuals to reason about failure.
- Create visibility so everyone learns from others' failures.
- bobm_kite9 5y agoTalking about risk as it affects software projects is the main topic of https://riskfirst.org https://riskfirst.org if anyone is interested in reading more on this. (disclosure: I am the author of that site)
- robertk 5y agoI wonder if there is a standard way to specify a researcher’s “Sharpe ratio”? The typical reward units out per risk units put in.