Originally Posted by
BDAttitude
While the monthly expenses and/or deprecation for a certain infrastructure projects are well defined, risks associated with failures mitigated by these are not. Risk is probability of occurence multiplied by damage and neither is clear until the event finaly set in and are therfore subject to manoeuvering, whitewashing, sugercoating. What attention gets a once in a decade or a semi-centurial event by decision-makers focused on the next quarterly?
Disagree. Any properly constructed case will contain a robust risk analysis (using quantitative methods, not qualitative Prob x Imp) and response strategy. The risk of inaction can be illustrated clearly.