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How do I conduct risk management on my project?

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Application Development Risk Assessment Checklist

PREMIUM checklist

Building an application? This checklist outlines 52 potential risk areas in application development, defining low, medium and high risk levels for each. Classifying your project risk in each of these areas will not only guide you in forming mitigation strategies, but really help you focus your management attention during the course of the project.

Project HEADWAY Risk Impact Tool

PREMIUM deliverable

This spreadsheet will help you align your project efforts with the specific risks you face on your project, to make estimating and resource management more accurate and effective.

Risk Process

PREMIUM deliverable

This document describes the purpose of risk management and provides an overview of the general process for managing risks within a project. Use it to capture and codify processes and procedures that need to be undertaken to initiate, act upon and review risks within your projects.

Sample Project Risk Register Template and Guide

PREMIUM deliverable

The risk register records details of all the risks identified at the start and during the life of the project, their grading in terms of likelihood of occurring and seriousness of impact on the project, initial plans for mitigating each high level risk and subsequent results.

Project Brief

PREMIUM deliverable

The project brief outlines what is to happen in the initiation phase of a project. A project brief is particularly useful in making a decision to proceed or not with the proposed project.

Risk Identification Template

PREMIUM deliverable
by Andy Jordan

This form is designed to be an easy-to-use template for capturing risks during risk identification. It is intended to be simple enough for all team members to be able to use without having any specialist knowledge of risk management processes. When meeting with various stakeholder groups, identify all of the potential risks to your project at a high level using this form.

Risk Statement Report

deliverable

This template will help you put together your next risk statement report. While you'll have to do your own writing, we'll give you hints on how to fill out the various subject areas of the report.

Risk Review Process and Checklist

PREMIUM checklist

Need to perform a risk audit on a project? This Risk Review Process and Checklist guides you through an exhaustive review of the effort, including documentation, resourcing, delivery performance to date, financial performance to date, and much more. It's not just a checklist of simple measures, but asks a number of questions that truly speak to the potential for the project to achieve the results that were intended.

Contract Risk Review

checklist

If you're about to enter into a contract, you need to understand the risks involved. Thoughtful pre-contract preparation, review and follow-up will go a long way toward keeping your company out of legal hot water.

External Risk Checklist

PREMIUM deliverable
by Andy Jordan

When an organization undertakes a major initiative, there is potential for many different factors to influence the project. This checklist identifies categories of risk that exist external to the organization that may impact its ability to successfully deliver the project.

Project Schedule Risk Assessment

PREMIUM deliverable

How risky is your project schedule? This assessment template will help you catch scheduling risks and address them before they become problems.

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