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Factors which increase project complexity
political sensitivity
reputation risk
technology complexity
business complexity
invividual and team productivity
includes development environment
number of systems impacted
number of business processes impacted
number of stakeholders
risk
High risk projects, i.e., those which have the potential to harm functioning processes or systems, require mitigation measures and additional documentation. If not completing the work will harm a functioning process or system, then not doing the project is similarly risky.
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