Risk Management Plan
Risk Management Plan
Risk Management Plan
I. Methodology
INTRODUCTION
A risk management plan is a primary tool for implementing the organization’s overall
risk management program. A risk is the probability of an event occurring which will have either
a positive or adverse impact on a project in case it occurs. Risk management is the process of
identifying, assessing, responding to monitoring, and reporting risks. The project will cover a
wide risk management plan for IT Services Company Inventory Management System business.
Companies like IT services transact inventory management handling a very sensitive data for
their supplier and customers. Inventory business faces some risks ranging from internal to
external in which some of them are natural disasters.
The risk management plan is created by the project manager and monitored and updated
throughout project. The intended audience of this document is the project team, project sponsor
and management. The focus of the risk’s management plan is to provide an ongoing,
comprehensive, and systematic approach to reducing risk exposures. Risk management activities
include identifying, investigating, analyzing and evaluating risks, followed by selecting and
implementing the most appropriate methods for correcting, reducing, managing, transferring, and
eliminating them.
The plan outlines the process, procedure, tools that will be used to control and manage the events
that may cause damage to the IT services Company Inventory Management firm. The document
will be useful for managing and monitoring all risks the project might face.
This organization defines the roles and responsibilities for risk management.
This section describes the IT Services Company budget and schedule and provides an
overview of the risk’s management approach.
This tool is helpful in identifying the critical activities of time estimates for activity
duration.
Table 2-Schedule
Table 3- Critical Path
The team used Microsoft excel software to perform a crash cost analysis to the above project. As
detailed in Table 4, the project can be crashed down to minimum of 12 weeks. In order to bring
the project to its goal of 14 weeks, it would cost an additional $10,560.00
IV. Risk Categories
This project will use the following categories of risks in this process:
The table 5 shows risk categories of IT Services Inventory Management Project. As can be seen, it is a fundamental success of
the risk management process that the widest range of risks are identified at this stage. The categories contain the following: Schedule,
Budget Personnel, Project Management, Environment Internal, Technology Objectives and Expectations. This will be accessible to all
members through the IT services company.
V. Risk Probability and Impact
Table 6– Risk Probability and Impact for IT Services Company Inventory Management System
The table shows two primary dimensions of risk Probability and Impact for IT services.
It helps the firm to neutralize the possible consequences by helping to focus mitigation efforts.
VI. Risk Documentation
The Risk Documentation is the primary output of the identify risks process. A risk documentation should consist of risk
description, category, trigger conditions, potential response, risk owner, probability of occurrence, the impact of risk and a status plan.