Work Product Descriptor (Artifact): Risk List

This artifact is a list of known and open risks to the project, sorted in order of importance and associated with specific mitigation or contingency actions.

Purpose

To capture the perceived risks to the success of the project.

Relationships

Roles	Responsible: Project Manager	Modified By: Project Manager
Input To	Mandatory: None	Optional: Plan Project	External: None
Output From	Plan Project

Main Description

This list identifies, in decreasing order of priority, all the risks associated to a project. It serves as a focal point for project activities and is the basis around which iterations are organized.

See Concept: Risk for more details.

Properties

Optional
Planned

Illustrations

Templates	Risk List

Key Considerations

This list should capture the critical and serious risks. If you find this list extending beyond 20, carefully consider whether they are really serious risks. Tracking more than 20 risks is an onerous task.

Tailoring

Representation Options

Option: list of risks captured in the project plan

In this approach you put the overall risk list in the project plan. The iteration plan will contain only the tasks you will be doing during the iteration to mitigate the risks. This will ensure that the iteration plan contains only iteration information. The project plan has to be revisited constantly as you update risks.

More Information

Checklists	Risk List
Concepts	Risk

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