This is the audio version of my popular Risk Management YouTube video.

In 2025 I launched a comprehensive Udemy course on the topic and you can find it here:

https://www.udemy.com/course/risk-management-in-video-game-development/?referralCode=D6412142A30B4794B550

This is a general chat around risk management for those involved in making video games. This is an introduction to the topic and is aimed at game producers.

Topics covered include:

• Why should you take risks and issues more seriously when making a game?
• What does risk management in the gaming world look like?What are risks and issues anyway?
• Why Risk and Issue logs are so useful
• How to tie in to Leadership meetings to really make this all useful
• Complexity of game making affecting risks/issues
• Example of how plans change, dependencies arise, etc and how your log can track this and assist in planning
• Producer accountability
• Continuous improvement of you and your team(s)
• Conversations, collaboration and transparency that arise for a positive approach to risk management
• Following through and taking action: how this leads to gaining trust, faith and momentum

Part 2 goes into more detail on actual risk and issue examples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d9CSoy_z3w

Part 3 is a walkthrough of generating a Risk and Issue Log that you can download and use/abuse at your leisure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PljB6IBZW2w&t=421s

I mentioned some other articles on risk management for gaming. Here they are:
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131309/risk_management_with_development_.php
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/191523/managing_risk_in_video_game_.php

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