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What percentage of risks identified in your projects actually occur?

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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Would it be 10-20%?
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
May 09, 2018 10:14 AM
Replying to Lenka Pincot
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I never measured this number. But I think it depends on nature of the particular project. Some are low risks and identified risks can be easily avoided or they were never going to occur. But when it’s a high risk project than a lot of the identified risks actually occur or require effort to avoid them and you have to deal with them.
Yes it seems very rare that PM's actually track this number. No one perhaps wants to advertise that they had a bunch pf risks that occurred, but I think it would be good in lessons learned. They can of course be graded; perhaps many occurred but they were low impact.
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
May 09, 2018 10:57 AM
Replying to Anish Abraham
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I agree with my colleagues here, It's not easy to measure and it depends on the particular project. In my experience I guess it would range between 0% - 40%
An average of 20% then Anish.
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
May 09, 2018 11:18 AM
Replying to Meade Rubenstein
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For those projects where people were actively involved in identifying risks AND active in creating mitigation strategies - I would say 5% (1 in every 20 impacted that were identified and did NOT have a mitigation plan). For those projects with little involvement, I would say 1%-3% (1 in a 100) BUT unidentified Risks did impact......with greater cost to the project
Interesting Meade. I was sure to put "identified" in my question, but unidentified risks would be another interesting percentage to know.
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