Comments on: Risk Management Template - Based on MSF Template

By: Blog of a Boston-based IT Consultant » Blog Archive » Hardhats for IT Project Managers (White Collar, Blue Collar, Polka-Collar)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:07:29 +0000

[...] You have to be aware of risks, like things falling and hurting someone, the weather, and neighborhood kids stealing the freshly planted landscaping. No, I never did that as a kid. I was very well-behaved. Once, though, I did see a General Contractor who left his pet pit bull in houses he was building. He had a mitigation plan, of sorts. If you need a quick template, you can have mine. [...]

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:47:15 +0000

Very helpful. I like this.

~Lyn

By: Stephan Meyn

Stephan Meyn — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:07:34 +0000

There are some risks where the trigger may not be obvious. You may need to define a metric and a limit value to that metric that acts as a trigger.

An example I had many years ago was the churn rate of developers (the project used an arcane development system and it took 10 weeks for a new programmer to become productive). For that risk the metric was the number of developers in this 8 week period. The monthly report would include this as a graph.

By: D. Merriman

D. Merriman — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:49:40 +0000

Thank you for making this available. It was a pleasant find for me.

David

By: troy

troy — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:22:16 +0000

i like this for my job

By: Patel

Patel — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:56:24 +0000

documenting the ‘risk owner’ is critical in process

By: Michelle Barret

Michelle Barret — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:33:19 +0000

This is very helpful. Thank you for posting it.