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Risk plan for project Call center application project
Assessment team members Mike, Barbara, Quentin, Jill, Sophie, Dean, Kyle
Risk Prob. Impact Priority Actions
Senior management will move call 3 5 15 1. Mike will add a requirements task to the
center offshore, which will require an schedule for Quentin to begin investigating
internationalization feature to be built internationalization requirements.
2. If the call cener is moved, Mike will call
a team meeting to review the schedule
and Barbara will inform the rest of senior
management of the potential delay.
Jim will be pulled off of this project for 4 3 12 1. Assign Kyle to work with Jill on the initial
Royalty Archive project bug fixes programming tasks to make sure he is
cross-trained.
2. If Jill is pulled off, she will spend 10% of
her time reviewing this project with Kyle.
Reporting feature will be needed 2 4 8 If this happens, Mike will work with Sophie
and Kyle to reestimate the programming tasks.
Additional time will be needed to 5 1 5 None
gather requirements from potential
users at Boston client
Will need to support tie-in to support 1 3 3 None
additional database vendors

FIGURE 2-1. Sample risk plan

Are there any resources known to be assigned to other projects at the same time that
they are assigned to this one?
Have dates that the resources are unavailable (scheduled downtime for machines, vaca-
tions for people, times that facilities cannot be booked, etc.) been taken into account?
Project schedule
Does the project plan include a schedule?
Are there any tasks that are missing or incorrect?
If a WBS was generated by a Delphi session, does the project schedule reflect all of the
tasks that were identified by the team?

Does each task have a predecessor?

Is a resource allocated to each task?
If multiple resources have been assigned to a single task, has the task’s duration been
updated properly to reflect that?

Is there a more efficient way to allocate resources?
Does the project schedule contain periodic reviews?
Risk plan
Does the project plan include a risk plan?

Are there any risks that are not in the plan?
Are there any assumptions (from the vision and scope document or a Delphi session)
that represent risks that should be included in the plan?

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