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Project Management & Agile · Advanced

Sensitivity Analysis

Quantitative technique that determines which individual risks or uncertainties have the most potential impact on outcomes.

Definition

It correlates variations in individual inputs with variation in outcomes and is commonly displayed as a tornado diagram.

Example

Analysis shows vendor lead time drives most schedule variability.

Exam tip

Tornado diagram = sensitivity analysis output.

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