17–5 A telecommunications firm believes that the majority of its income over the next ten years will come from organizations outside of the United States. More specifically, the income will come from third world nations that may have very little understanding or experience in project management. The company prepared Figure 17–23. What causes the increasing risks in Figure 17–23?

17–6 In the 1970s and 1980s, military organizations took the lead in developing ways to assess total program risk. One approach was to develop a rigorous process for identifying specific technical risk at the functional level and translating this detailed information through several steps. In this way, it was believed that risks could easily be monitored and corrected, as shown in Figure 17–24. Why is this method not being supported today?

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