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1.1 Purpose of The Risk Management Plan

The Risk Management Plan outlines the process for identifying, analyzing, and managing risks throughout the project lifecycle. Key steps include identifying risks through discussions with the project team and stakeholders, analyzing the probability and impact of risks, and developing response plans to either mitigate, accept, or transfer high-priority risks. Risks will be actively monitored and the top risks reported regularly to management as part of the project status reporting process. The overall goal is to minimize the impact of risks on project objectives.

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1.1 Purpose of The Risk Management Plan

The Risk Management Plan outlines the process for identifying, analyzing, and managing risks throughout the project lifecycle. Key steps include identifying risks through discussions with the project team and stakeholders, analyzing the probability and impact of risks, and developing response plans to either mitigate, accept, or transfer high-priority risks. Risks will be actively monitored and the top risks reported regularly to management as part of the project status reporting process. The overall goal is to minimize the impact of risks on project objectives.

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1.1

INTRODUCTION
PURPOSE OF THE RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN
[Provide the purpose of the Risk Management Plan.]
A risk is an event or condition that, if it occurs, could have a positive or negative effect on
a projects objectives. Risk Management is the process of identifying, assessing,
responding to, monitoring, and reporting risks. This Risk Management Plan defines how
risks associated with the project will be identified, analyzed, and managed. It outlines how
risk management activities will be performed, recorded, and monitored throughout the
lifecycle of the project and provides templates and practices for recording and prioritizing
risks.
The Risk Management Plan is created by the project manager in the Planning Phase of the
CDC Unified Process and is monitored and updated throughout the project.
The intended audience of this document is the project team, project sponsor and
management.

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2.1

RISK MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE


PROCESS
[Summarize the steps necessary for responding to project risk.]
The project manager working with the project team and project sponsors will ensure that
risks are actively identified, analyzed, and managed throughout the life of the project.
Risks will be identified as early as possible in the project so as to minimize their impact.
The steps for accomplishing this are outlined in the following sections. The <project
manager or other designee> will serve as the Risk Manager for this project.

2.2

RISK IDENTIFICATION
Risk identification will involve the project team, appropriate stakeholders, and will include
an evaluation of environmental factors, organizational culture and the project management
plan including the project scope. Careful attention will be given to the project deliverables,
assumptions, constraints, WBS, cost/effort estimates, resource plan, and other key project
documents.
A Risk Management Log will be generated and updated as needed and will be stored
electronically in the project library located at <file location>.

2.3

RISK ANALYSIS
All risks identified will be assessed to identify the range of possible project outcomes.
Qualification will be used to determine which risks are the top risks to pursue and respond
to and which risks can be ignored.

2.3.1

Qualitative Risk Analysis


The probability and impact of occurrence for each identified risk will be assessed by the
project manager, with input from the project team using the following approach:
Probability
High Greater than <70%> probability of occurrence
Medium Between <30%> and <70%> probability of occurrence

Impact
High Risk that has the potential to greatly impact project cost,
project schedule or performance
Medium Risk that has the potential to slightly impact project
cost, project schedule or performance
Low Risk that has relatively little impact on cost, schedule or
performance

Impact

Low Below <30%> probability of occurrence

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Risks that fall within the RED and YELLOW zones will have risk response planning which
may include both a risk mitigation and a risk contingency plan.
2.3.2

Quantitative Risk Analysis


Analysis of risk events that have been prioritized using the qualitative risk analysis process
and their affect on project activities will be estimated, a numerical rating applied to each
risk based on this analysis, and then documented in this section of the risk management
plan.

2.4

RISK RESPONSE PLANNING


Each major risk (those falling in the Red & Yellow zones) will be assigned to a project
team member for monitoring purposes to ensure that the risk will not fall through the
cracks.
For each major risk, one of the following approaches will be selected to address it:
Avoid eliminate the threat by eliminating the cause
Mitigate Identify ways to reduce the probability or the impact of the risk
Accept Nothing will be done
Transfer Make another party responsible for the risk (buy insurance, outsourcing, etc.)
For each risk that will be mitigated, the project team will identify ways to prevent the risk
from occurring or reduce its impact or probability of occurring. This may include
prototyping, adding tasks to the project schedule, adding resources, etc.
For each major risk that is to be mitigated or that is accepted, a course of action will be
outlined for the event that the risk does materialize in order to minimize its impact.

2.5

RISK MONITORING, CONTROLLING, AND REPORTING


The level of risk on a project will be tracked, monitored and reported throughout the
project lifecycle.
A Top 10 Risk List will be maintained by the project team and will be reported as a
component of the project status reporting process for this project.
All project change requests will be analyzed for their possible impact to the project risks.
Management will be notified of important changes to risk status as a component to the
Executive Project Status Report.

TOOLS AND PRACTICES


A Risk Log will be maintained by the project manager and will be reviewed as a standing
agenda item for project team meetings.

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