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Risk-management activities as applied to project management
In project management, risk management includes the following activities: * Planning how risk will be managed in the particular project. Plan should include risk management tasks, responsibilities, activities and budget. * Assigning a risk officer - a team member other than a project manager who is responsible for foreseeing potential project problems. Typical characteristic of risk officer is a healthy skepticism. * Maintaining live project risk database. Each risk should have the following attributes: opening date, title, short description, probability and importance. Optionally a risk may have an assigned person responsible for its resolution and a date by which the risk must be resolved. * Creating anonymous risk reporting channel. Each team member should have possibility to report risk that he foresees in the project. * Preparing mitigation plans for risks that are chosen to be mitigated. The purpose of the mitigation plan is to describe how this particular risk will be handled – what, when, by who and how will it be done to avoid it or minimize consequences if it becomes a liability. * Summarizing planned and faced risks, effectiveness of mitigation activities, and effort spent for the risk management.
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