Adding Detailed Project-Level Risks
Add project risks to capture potential threats or opportunities that might impact your project, and to perform qualitative analysis to reduce or eliminate negative impact on the project.
Note: If a risk scoring matrix is not assigned to the project, you can add general risk information to the Risks page, but you will not be able to enter values for probability, schedule and cost, which are values used to generate the risk score. See Assigning a Risk Scoring Matrix to a Project .
To add detailed project-level risks:
- Click
Projects. - On the Projects navigation bar, click
Risks. - On the Risks page, click
Add a Risk (Insert). - If multiple projects are open, select a project from the Select Project dialog box and click OK.
- On the Risks page:
- In the ID field, click and type an ID for the risk.
- In the Name field, click and type the risk name.
- In the Type field, double-click and select the type of risk from the list.
- In the Status field, double-click and select the current status for the risk.
- In the Owner field, double-click then click
.
- In the Select Owner dialog box, select an owner for the risk and click Assign.
- On the Risks page:
- In the Probability field, double-click and select a probability from the list.
- In the Schedule field, double-click and select a schedule impact from the list.
- In the Cost field, double-click and select a cost impact from the list.
- Complete any addition fields on the table that are relevant for this risk, including any user-defined fields.
Note: To display additional columns, click Select Columns and select the column to add to the table.
- You can provide more information using the Cause, Description, Effect, and Notes detail windows.
- On the Risks page, click
Save (Ctrl+S).
Tip
Click the Probability and Impact Diagram detail window to view the risk scoring matrix assigned to the project.
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