The risk management cycle also affects
the process of software project. Firstly, the risk management
is a part of software project management. Each stage ends
with all of its work including stage risk management finished.
Secondly, if some stage in the project was in a low-risk state,
the project will be well into its next stage, i.e. the condition of
entering other stage is that the risks are properly controlled in
last stage. Vice versa, active risk-response measures should
be taken, so the process into next stage is slowed down.
Therefore, these two lifecycles are complementary.