Risks & Mitigations
A risks and mitigation workshop is a team-wide activity used to identify things that are likely to derail the project.
Outcome
The output of this workshop should provide the team with a prioritized list of risks and potential mitigation strategies. The output can also been used to populate a risk register to track risks over the course of the project.
Method
- Gather the full team including clients and stakeholders
- Allow time for each participant to 5-10 risks, 1 risk per sticky. These risks can be from a variety of categories (see examples of categories below)
- Have participants pick their top 5 risks
- Go around the group and have each participant explain their risk and plot it on a 2x2 of probability and impact
- Once all all risks have been mapped, focus on brainstorming mitigation or assigning mitigation strategy for risks that are high probability and high impact