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Project Management & Agile · Foundational

Identify Risks

Process of identifying individual project risks and sources of overall project risk and documenting their characteristics.

Definition

Techniques include brainstorming, checklists, interviews, root cause analysis, assumption and constraint analysis, SWOT analysis, document analysis, and prompt lists. Outputs are the risk register and risk report.

Example

The team reviews the assumption log and identifies that a key vendor may not deliver on time.

Exam tip

Risk identification is iterative and involves the whole team, not just the PM.

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