CHAPTER 8

Spread the Word (Reporting)

Risk management is about taking appropriate action in response to identified risks. Unfortunately, the earlier steps of the risk process do not guarantee that those who must take such action possess the necessary information to do so. It is therefore important to include a step for communicating the results of the risk process to the people who need to know. In ATOM this step is called Reporting.

Following the First Risk Assessment on a medium-size project, Reporting simply combines the outputs from the previous steps into a single risk report. Extracts from this report can be distributed to different stakeholders; ...

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