Archive for June, 2008

Negative Risk

June 30, 2008

I few months ago I attended a customer meeting where Risk was assigned to different modules in a project.  The numbering went from 1 (low) to 10 (high) and a module that matched the requirements of one of our cores had a Risk number of 10 as there was no competence in our customer’s company in that area before engaging with video-cores.com .

We presented our core, ran customer-provided still-images and video through our core test bench, and got an approval for use in the project.  In the process of presenting the core the customer asked if we could help integrate it as well.

In the integration process we saw that the core talked not only to other video-related modules but also to a memory controller.  Analyzing the interactions with those modules we found architectural errors in the design of those modules.

In summary, not only we reduced the risk associated with a video-related module that was replaced with one of our cores but also reduced the risk associated with modules that our core connected to effectively providing a “negative risk” associated with our module that reduced the risk in the whole project.

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