Analysis and Visualisation of Project Structure using Linkography: Focussing Project Risk Management

Product development projects are difficult to plan due to complexity, dynamics, lack of transparency and polytely. Risk Management is often used to cope with this situation. Linkography is adapted with the aim to ease the effort of the Risk Management process. Linkography is used to focus all Risk Management activities on those work packages which might affect the project the most in the case of failing the expected outcome. The criticality of a work package is defined by the number of links to other work packages, its duration and its costs. By applying Linkography as a Risk Management method, a prioritized list of work packages can be generated which pass consecutively through the usual Risk Management process. Unlike other methods, Linkography supports the user in a visual manner. Hence, Linkography can easily be used for communication with unskilled stakeholders.