Assigning Responsibilities
The risk management plan specifies responsibilities, which provides accountability. If responsibilities are not assigned, tasks can easily be missed. Responsibilities can be assigned to:
- Risk management PM
- Stakeholders
- Departments or department heads
- Executive officers, such as the CIO or CFO
Ensuring that any entity that is assigned a responsibility has the authority to complete the task is important. This is especially important for the PM.
For example, team members may not work directly for the PM. Technicians, for example, might work in the IT department. They can be assigned as team members for a project. However, they may still report directly to supervisors in the IT department. So their task assignments ...
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