Assessing Risk for a QA Mobile Project

As a lead on a QA team developing mobile apps, I constantly evaluate risk to ensure the schedule and end users are not impacted. Risks can be identified during sprint planning using tools like Fibonacci poker, which encourages developers, designers, and QA to communicate about potential challenges. A checklist of questions for the QA team to consider is also helpful in identifying risks such as data security, performance, usability, quality, team capacity, test automation, manual testing, infrastructure, painful tests, and schedule dependencies. By understanding these risk types, teams can prioritize mitigation strategies and minimize delays and issues with interactivities, ensuring a successful mobile app release.