JUXT Cast S6E4 - JUXTCast S6E4: All Work Is Risk Management with Rob Moffat
Dec 23, 2025
Rob Moffat, an author and chief architect at FINOS, dives deep into risk-driven development, drawing from his banking experience. He discusses the evolution of agile as a risk strategy and the importance of framing design choices through risk analysis. Moffat emphasizes the role of storytelling in uncovering hidden risks and the need for a comprehensive AI governance framework in financial services. He also explores how open-source collaboration can benefit the industry while addressing competitive barriers, ultimately asserting that everyday work is fundamentally about managing risks.
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Treat Practices As Risk Management
- Software practices like Agile are ways of managing particular risks, not ends in themselves.
- Different techniques apply because projects face different risks and trade-offs must be explicit.
Prioritise Backlogs By Risk Reduction
- Prioritise backlog items by the risks they reduce rather than by task lists alone.
- Make risk reduction the organising principle for what you build next.
Designs Are Risk Trade-Offs
- Design decisions are trade-offs between different risks rather than pure technical choices.
- Good decisions improve your overall risk position by trading worse risks for better ones.