Identify Risks
Process
Determining risks that may affect the project and documenting their characteristics.
When performed: Throughout the project
Process group: Planning
Knowledge Area: Risk Management
Outputs Created
Outputs Updated
Inputs
- Requirements management plan
- Requirements documentation
- Schedule management plan
- Cost management plan
- Quality management plan
- Resource management plan
- Resource requirements
- Risk management plan
- Scope baseline
- Schedule baseline
- Cost baseline
- Cost estimates
- Activity duration estimates
- Stakeholder register
- Procurement management plan
- Procurement strategy
- Procurement statement of work
- Bid documents
- Assumption log
- Issue log
- Agreements
- Lessons learned register
- Enterprise environmental factors
- Published material, including commercial risk databases or checklists
- Academic studies
- Benchmarking results
- Industry studies of similar projects
- Organizational process assets
- Project files
- Organizational and project process controls
- Risk statement formats
- Checklists from previous similar projects
Tools & Techniques
- Brainstorming
- Checklists
- Interviews
- Root cause analysis
- SWOT analysis
- Document analysis
- Assumption and constraint analysis
- Facilitation
- Prompt lists
- Meetings
- Expert judgment
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