What is the difference between Workaround Plan, Contigency Plan & Fallback Plan ?

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Rami Kaibni

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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

Looks like I have some confusion when it comes to those three Risk Response Plans. Are they different or they are all the same and all address:

1- Risks that were accepted and then occured.
2- When the risk response plan for a certain risk proved not to be enough.

Appreciate your input.

Posted: Feb 26, 2018 2:33 AM

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Stanley Oranika Director Finance & Strategy| Virtus Deus F.C.T, Abuja, Nigeria

The huge similarity, they are all Risk Responses

Posted: Feb 28, 2018 6:53 PM

Alex Carter Director & Lead Management Consultant | MicroAgility Inc. Nj, United States

Contingency Plan vs Fallback Plan vs Workaround Plan.
Contingency and fallback plan are produced to oversee distinguished risks. Since the two designs are utilized to oversee risks,

Contingency Plan is intended to assess a conceivable future occasion or situation.
Fallback Plan is an option on the off chance that a specific approach comes up short.
Workaround Plan are a reaction for unidentified risks.

Posted: Mar 5, 2018 3:11 PM

Md Shariful Alam Malik Project Manager, Development & Delivery| The City of Cockburn Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Feb 26, 2018 8:44 AM

Replying to Mansoor Mustafa

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Rami
I agree with Sergio. Workaround plan is plan for risks which are not anticipated Unknown - Unknow, response strategy for it in most of case is acceptance strategy. Whereas Contigency planing is active planning of known Unknown risk and Fall back plan is plan that if contigency plan does not work an alternate plan can be work( Plan B)

Thank you, All

Posted: Mar 2, 2022 9:05 PM

Peter Rapin Subject Matter Expect; Project Delivery| Independent Consultant Ontario, Canada

I would argue that all plans - work-around, contingency and fallback - should be pre-conceived. Work-around plan identifies and avoids a risk; Contingency plan identifies and accepts a risk and provides for response (mitigating measures) for if/when the event occurs; Fallback plan is plan B in either case when faced with failure of the initial plan. None of these plans should be the result of "failure to plan".

Posted: Mar 3, 2022 9:39 AM

Denathayalan Ramasamy Chief Technology Officer| Atal Incubation Centre -CIIC Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

i agree with Alex Carter;

Contingency plan - For Known Risks & Agreed response for high probability occurrences with clear estimation during the planning

Fallback plan - For Known risks with lower probability occurrence & various response options, narrowed down with estimation during Monitoring & Controlling based on environmental conditions.

Workaround plan - for unidentified risks

Posted: Mar 5, 2022 10:53 AM

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