Risk Management, 5th Edition

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Planning Meetings

The Risk Management Plan

Technique Description

Planning meetings are conducted to ensure the organization has a consistent vision in terms of the project’s risk methodology, roles and responsibilities, timing, thresholds, reporting formats, and approaches to tracking. Planning meetings focus on bringing together key stakeholders on risk to determine the risk practices to be pursued and the approach to be used in pursuing them.

When Applicable

This technique is recommended for all projects. Planning meetings ensure a general team acceptance of risk management as a practice. The technique is most effective in the initial risk-planning stages but will apply in other processes as well. When conducting risk reviews and evaluations, ...