Over Estimating and Over Obsession With Risk

How much time do we spend catastrophing out a project by over-estimating risk?

Do we need to get into so much minuscule details and analysis that we loss track of what actually works? And what the intent of the project is? The actual Why of what we are doing.

Better to record a possible issue? Just record it. Log it. And see what you already have in place to overcome it? Versus turning the list of really small things into a whole new project to implement?

Take this simple guest check as a sample idea. Lists out all the information needed. It’s a contract basically. Does not add 50 features to over come tiny risks to the restaurant or the diner.

Do your projects add 50 features to tiny issues?

How much time did you spend thinking of them and implementing them versus building the major key objectives to deliver what you need done.

Or worse just spending time thinking of them, obsessing about how they will derail you, creating a risk model, and then doing nothing with it? Sure you had a plan. But in the midst of plannng that, did you just add time to the project?