Part 2 goes into more detail on actual risk and issue examples. I have based the categories on the only current academic research I could find on the topic. You can read that in full.

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Topics covered in Part 2 include:

• High level risks
• Staffing risks
• Schedule & Budget Risks
• Inadequate specs (I decided to skip talking about Design specs here as that deserves its own section some other time)
• Fun Factor
• Change management
• Expectations of third parties such as publishers
• Summary

Part 1, a more general introduction around risk management in the game industry, can be found here.

Part 3 is a walkthrough of generating a Risk and Issue Log that you can download and use/abuse at your leisure.

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