Identify Risk
A) Risks exist because of both exogenous and endogenous factors:
- Exogenous factors include changes in technology, government regulation/policies, market fluctuations in prices and supplies, legal and contractual issues, natural events such as poor weather and disasters, loss due to theft of vandalism, etc.
- Endogenous factors may include personnel issues, impacts of other project, conflicts in access to resources, lack of data, poor performance, and inexperience, etc.
B) Generate a list of possible risks:
- Team based, use of brainstorming, etc.
- Concentrate on identifying causes, not just effects.
- Can use the work breakdown structure (WBS), process breakdown structure (PBS) as guides.
- Alternatively can develop “partial risk profiles” for different types of project.