The Importance of Risk Templates

Kenneth has 14 years of healthcare experience in government and private industry. Over eight years of experience managing healthcare IT projects, operations, contracts, and personnel. His work experience includes project management, contracts and procurements, data analysis, claims adjudication, business writing, and business process modeling. Kenneth was certified in 2006 as a Project Management Professional.

  Risk Management  

Risks are always involved in a project. Sometimes you will need to have a formal process to deal with them and communicate with the client and the project team about risks. Other times, you will be talking to someone over the cubicle wall and realize that you have stumbled upon a risk in the project that needs to be dealt with.

In both cases (and in most cases in between), risk templates can help you work through the needed steps in analyzing and mitigating risks—and hopefully avoiding negative risks that would cause issues on the project. Everyone works better if they have a built-in starting point, and the risk template will do that for the team working on the project.

A Built-In Process
Templates and worksheets and processes can help give you a great starting point for performing risk management tasks on a project. This eliminates sitting around a conference room trying to figure out what you are going to do about a risk. The process is built in and hopefully comes with templates that can be filled out and worked by the risk owner. Having a starting point can make a big difference, but it is important to spend time at the beginning of the project creating or updating those templates and processes for the project. Not every project is the same, and there can be a great deal of variance in how risks are handled by different organizations and accounts.

The …

Please log in or sign up below to read the rest of the article.