6STEP 3—PRIORITIZING AND MAPPING RISKS

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Our goal in this chapter is to identify the most important risks so that the next chapter’s action planning efforts can be aimed at them. As risks are identified, some teams may feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of risks that were identified in the workshops. After completing the risk analysis process, this concern usually deepens even more because now facts have been established for the project’s risks, which makes their importance even clearer. This chapter imposes order on the list of risks the team will be managing by helping them to address only those that pose the greatest threat to the project’s ...

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