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John Spacey, February 27, 2017
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Project risk is the potential for a project to fail. More broadly, it is the
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potential for a project to cause business losses. It is considered basic
Business Impact project management due diligence to identify risks and go through a
process of reducing, mitigating, transferring, sharing or accepting
each risk. Generally speaking, risk can't be reduced to zero and all
projects involve some degree of risk acceptance. The following are
common types of project risk.
Architecture Risk Benefit Shortfall
Budget Risk Business Impact Risk
Contract Risk Design Risk
Disputes Estimates
Facility Risk Force Majeure
Health And Safety Risk Implementation Risk
Information Security Risk Infrastructure Risk
Integration Risk Legal Risk
Operations Risk Partner Risk
Performance Risk Political Risk
Procurement Risk Program Risk
Project Complexity Project Planning Risk
Quality Risk Regulatory Risk
Reputational Risk Requirements Quality
Residual Risk Resistance To Change
Resource Risk Risk Response
Schedule Risk Scope Creep
Secondary Risk Security Risk
Supplier Risk Technology Risk
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39 Examples of Project Risk
A list of common project risks.
11 Steps of the Project Risk
Management Process
An overview of the project risk
management process.
What is Architecture Risk?
The potential for an
architectue to fail to satisfy the
requirements for a project.
What is Benefit Shortfall?
A definition of benefit shortfall.
What is Business Impact
Risk?
The potential that business will
be interrupted by a project or
organizational change.
What is Design Risk?
The potential for a design to
fail to satisfy the requirements
for a project.
Assumptions
The basic types of project assumption.
7 Types of Project
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Assumptions? »
What is Project Complexity?
The overall size and intricacy
of a project.
Estimates
Projections of costs, task completion times and resource needs for a
project.
4 Types of Project Estimate »
What is a Fudge Factor? »
What is a Full-Time
Equivalent? »
What are Story Points? »
What is Project Planning
Risk?
The potential for a failure of
project management to result
in losses.
Project Risk Management
A reasonably complete guide to project risk management.
Project Risk Management
Guide »
11 Steps of the Project Risk
Management Process »
Project Stakeholder
A list of common project stakeholders.
16 Types of Project
Stakeholder »
6 Types of Primary
Stakeholder »
5 Examples of Stakeholder
Requirements »
Risk vs Issue
The difference between a risk
and an issue.
What is Schedule Risk?
The potential for a strategy,
project or task to take longer
than planned.
Scope Creep
The uncontrolled expansion of a project's scope.
What is Scope Creep? »
Scope Creep vs Feature Creep
»
13 Examples of
Requirements Risk
Risks related to the quality of
requirements or the
requirements management
process.
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