Step 6
What if it goes wrong?
Essential practices of Step 6
- Identify and analyse threats to your project.
- Develop plans to mitigate threats and deal with contingencies.
- Implement your plans with vigour.
Things go wrong
Things go wrong: let’s take that as a given. No matter how good your plans are, they will not be a complete representation of reality, which is prone to uncertainty.
Risks are uncertain events that can impact upon your outcomes. In particular, we focus on those events whose effects are adverse: the threats. So Step 6 is all about identifying and managing those threats. We shall follow a simple four-part process for doing this.
RISK MANAGEMENT PROCESS
Mike’s rules
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This is Mike’s first rule of life. Things ...
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