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Project Risk Management Flashcards

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An amount of funds used to offset a projects risks

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Contingency Funds

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Condition, event or warning sign that a risk is about to happen. Creates a risk response.

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Triggers

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Risks with a positive impact

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Positive Risks
Opportunities

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Risks with a negative impact

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Negative Risks, also called threats

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A person’s or organization’s willingness to accept risk. Relative to the project priority as high priority projects are typically risk adverse.

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Utility Function or Risk Tolernace

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A risk response in which executives decide to accept a risk without taking any actions to mitigate them; appropriate for both positive and negative risks, but often used for smaller risks within a project.

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Acceptance

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Risks that have an uncertain, unclear nature, such as new laws or regulations, the marketplace conditions, and other risks that are nearly impossible to predict.

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Ambiguity risks

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A risk response to avoid the risk.

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Avoidance

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The most common approach to risk identification; usually completed by a project team with subject matter experts to identify the risks within the project.

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Brainstorming

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These risks may have negative or positive outcomes. Examples include using a less experienced worker to complete a task, allowing phases or activities to overlap, or forgoing the expense of formal training for on-the-job education.

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Business risks

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A ranking approach to identify the probability and impact by using a numerical value, from .01 (very low) to 1.0 (certain).

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Cardinal scales

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A quick and cost-effective risk identification approach.

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Checklists/Prompt List

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The consideration of the risk ranking scores that takes into account any bias, the accuracy of the data submitted, and the reliability of the nature of the data submitted.

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Data precision

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A method to determine which of two or more decisions is the best one. The model examines the costs and benefits of each decision’s outcome and weighs the probability of success for each of the decisions.

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Decision tree

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An anonymous method of querying experts about foreseeable risks within a project, phase, or component of a project. The results of the survey are analyzed by a third party, organized, and then circulated to the experts. There can be several rounds of anonymous discussion with the XXX, without fear of backlash or offending other participants in the process. The goal is to gain consensus on project risks within the project.

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Delphi Technique

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A risk response that attempts to enhance the conditions to ensure that a positive risk event will likely happen.

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Enhancing

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A risk response that is appropriate for both positive and negative risk events that may be outside of the project manager’s authority to act upon.

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Escalating

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The monetary value of a risk exposure based on the risk’s probability and impact in the risk matrix. This approach is typically used in quantitative risk analysis because it quantifies the risk exposure.

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Expected monetary value (EMV)

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A risk response that takes advantage of the positive risks within a project.

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Exploit

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These risks are outside of the project, but directly affect it—for example, legal issues, labor issues, a shift in project priorities, or weather. “Force majeure” risks call for disaster recovery rather than project management. These are risks caused by earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, civil unrest, and other disasters.

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External risks

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System or process XX show the relationship between components and how the overall process works. These are useful for identifying risks between system components.

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Flowcharts

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This charts out a decision problem. It identifies all of the elements, variables, decisions, and objectives and also how each factor may influence another.

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Influence diagrams

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These cause-and-effect diagrams are also called fishbone diagrams (why-why) and are used to find the root cause of factors that are causing risks within the project.

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Ishikawa diagrams

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24
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identified and assigned to a watch list for periodic monitoring.

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Low-priority risk watch list

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A risk response effort to reduce the probability and/or impact of an identified risk in the project.

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Mitigation

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A simulation technique completed using a computer software program that can simulate a project, using values for all possible variables, to predict the most likely model.

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Monte Carlo technique

27
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A ranking approach that identifies and ranks the risks from very high to very unlikely or to some other value. merely a ranking.

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Ordinal scales

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The performing organization can contribute to the project’s risks through unreasonable cost, time, and scope expectations; poor project prioritization; inadequate funding or the disruption of funding; and competition with other projects for internal resources.

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Organizational risks

29
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A prompt list used for risk identification PESTLE.

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This examines risks in the Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental domains.

30
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A matrix that ranks the probability of a risk event occurring and its impact on the project if the event does happen; used in qualitative and quantitative risk analyses.

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Probability and impact matrix

31
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These risks deal with faults in the management of the project: the unsuccessful allocation of time, resources, and scheduling; unacceptable work results; and poor project management.

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Project management risks

32
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These risks have only a negative outcome. Examples include loss of life or limb, fire, theft, natural disasters, and the like.

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Pure risks

33
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This approach “qualifies” the risks that have been identified in the project. Specifically, it examines and prioritizes risks based on their probability of occurring and their impact on the project should they occur.

Analyze risk to find seriousness
*Decide if need more analysis/action OR if to just document and keep eye on it

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Qualitative risk analysis

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This approach attempts to numerically assess the probability and impact of the identified risks. It also creates an overall risk score for the project. This method is more in-depth than qualitative risk analysis and relies on several different tools to accomplish its goal.

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Quantitative risk analysis

35
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An ordinal scale that uses red, amber, and green to capture the probability, impact, and risk score.

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RAG rating

36
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Risks that are expected to remain after a risk response.

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Residual risks

37
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An uncertain event or condition that can have a positive or negative impact on the project.

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Risk

38
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The systematic process of combing through the project, the project plan, the work breakdown structure, and all supporting documentation to identify as many risks that may affect the project as possible.

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Risk identification

39
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A project management subsidiary plan that defines how risks will be identified, analyzed, responded to, and monitored within the project. The plan also defines the iterative risk management process that the project is expected to adhere to.

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Risk management plan

40
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The agreed-upon approach to the management of the project risk processes.

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Risk management planning

41
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The individuals or entities that are responsible for monitoring and responding to an identified risk within the project.

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Risk owners

42
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A project plan component that contains all of the information related to the risk management activities. It’s updated as risk management activities are conducted to reflect the status, progress, and nature of the project risks.

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Risk register

43
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Explains the overall project risks and provides summaries about the individual project risks.

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Risk report

44
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An audit to test the validity of the established risk responses.

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Risk response audit

45
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The level of ownership an individual or entity has over a project risk.

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Risk responsibilities

46
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The calculated score based on each risk’s probability and impact. The approach can be used in both qualitative and quantitative risk analysis.

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Risk score

47
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Aims to find out why a risk event may be occurring, the causal factors for the risk events, and then, eventually, how the events can be mitigated or eliminated.

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Root cause identification

48
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New risks that are created as a result of a risk response.

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Secondary risks

49
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A quantitative risk analysis tool that examines each risk to determine which one has the largest impact on the project’s success.

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Sensitivity analysis

50
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A risk response that shares the advantages of a positive risk within a project.

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Sharing

51
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The process of examining the project from the perspective of each characteristic: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

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SWOT analysis

52
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A prompt list used in risk identification TECOP

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examine the Technical, Environmental, Commercial, Operational, and Political factors of the project.

53
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*Associated with new, unproven, or complex technologies being used on the project. Changes to the technology during the project implementation can also be a risk.
*The levels set for expectations of impractical quality and performance.

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Technical, quality, or performance risks

54
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A risk response that transfers the ownership of the risk to another party. Insurance, licensed contractors, or other project teams are good examples of transference. A fee and contractual relationships are typically involved.

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Transference

55
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A type of risk based on the variations that may occur in the project, such as production, number of quality errors, or even the weather.

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Variability risks

56
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A prompt list VACU

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used in risk identification that examines the Volatility, Ambiguity, Complexity, and Uncertainty of risk factors within the project.

57
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An organization’s risk tolerance is also known as XXX. OR
a person’s willingness to tolerate risk.

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The utility function

58
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A table of risks, their probability, their impact, and a number representing the overall risk score is called a _______________

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Risk Matrix

59
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EMV Calculation

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probability X impact

60
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What would a risk be based on the following information: Marty is 60 percent certain that he can get the facility needed for $45,000, which is $7000 less than what was planned for?

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.60, $7000, $4200

Marty is 60% certain - probability
Positive Risk of $7000
60 percent of $7000 is $4200

61
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Inputs to Plan Risk Responses include:

A. Management Reserves and Contingency Reserves
B. Risk Register and Change Requests
C. Qualitative Risk Analysis and Quantitative Risk Analysis
D. Risk Management Plan and Risk Register

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D. Risk Management Plan and Risk Register

62
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Which of the following is NOT included in the Risk Register?

A. opportunities that are identified during project execution
B. changes to the organization’s risk tolerance
C. updates to expected monetary values
D. potential responses to previously identified threats

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B. changes to the organization’s risk tolerance

63
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Risk Urgency Assessment considers:

A. probability factors and severity
B. impact factors and project cost
C. time factors and risk triggers
D. category factors and risk appetite

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C. time factors and risk triggers

64
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SWOT analysis

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The process of examining the project from the perspective of each characteristic: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

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